The Future of Education with AI Communications of NII Shonan Meetings

Andreas Dengel is a professor at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Kaiserslautern-Landau, as well as Executive Director of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) in Kaiserslautern and head of the research department Smart Data & Knowledge Services at DFKI. Since 2009, he has held another professorship (kyakuin) at the Department of Computer Science and Intelligent Systems at Osaka Metropolitan University, with the right to teach and examine. At this university, he was also appointed “Distinguished Honorary Professor” (tokubetu eiyo kyoju) in March 2018, an honor bestowed on only five researchers in 135 years. He has received many honors for his work and scientific achievements. In 2019, for example, he was selected by a jury on behalf of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) as one of the most influential scientists in 50 years of AI history in Germany for his research in the field of document analysis. He is the recipient of the Order of Merit of Rhineland-Palatinate and was awarded the “The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon” in 2021, Japan's oldest order, on behalf of His Majesty Emperor Naruhito. Andreas Denngel has chaired numerous international conferences and is a member of the editorial boards of international journals and book series. He has written or edited 14 books and is the author of more than 800 peer-reviewed scientific publications.

 

Laurence Devillers is a Professor of computer science applied to the humanities and social sciences at Sorbonne University, director of the  “Affective and social dimensions of spoken interactions with (ro)bots  and ethical issues” research team at LISN-CNRS (Paris-Saclay). She is the head of the AI Chair: “HUman-MAchine Affective Interaction & Ethics” at the  DATAIA Saclay Institute. Founding member of the HUB France IA, member of  the Global Partnership on AI (GPAI) on the future of work. Shis is President of the Foundation Blaise Pascal of scientific mediation on mathematics and computer science. Since 2021, she has been a member of AFNOR at CEN-CENELEC JTC21 and IEEE. She also was a member of CNPEN (National ethical committee in computer science in France). She is the author of  more than 200 international publications (Google Scholar : 44) and she wrote 3 essays for large audience: Des robots et des hommes (Plon 2017), Les robots émotionnels (L'Observatoire 2020), IA, Ange ou Démon (CERF 2025).

Koichi Kise received his Bachelor’s, Master’s, and Doctoral degrees in Communication Engineering from Osaka University, Japan, in 1986, 1988, and 1991, respectively. From 2000 to 2001, he was a visiting researcher at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Germany. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Core Informatics at the Graduate School of Informatics, Osaka Metropolitan University, Japan. In 2008, he founded the Institute of Document Analysis and Knowledge Science (IDAKS) at Osaka Prefecture University (now Osaka Metropolitan University), where he currently serves as Director. He also serves as Director of the DFKI Lab Japan, established in 2022 at Osaka Metropolitan University as DFKI’s first overseas laboratory. His research interests include document analysis, human behavior understanding, learning augmentation, and AI applications in medicine.

Andrew Vargo is a Research Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Informatics at Osaka Metropolitan University. His previous research focused on knowledge sharing behavior in peer-production communities, while his current research is focused on wearable computing devices and human augmentation. He served as the lead organizer for Shonan Seminar 214 and as a one of the general chairs for the Augmented Humas 2025 (AHs 2025) conference.