Projects
Thank you for your patience throughout the inaugural Cross-Pacific AI Initiative call for proposals. The final funding decisions are still in progress due to some unexpected administrative delay of sponsoring companies. In the meantime, we are pleased to share the first batch of funded projects, listed below.
Please note that if your proposal does not appear on this list, it remains under active consideration. Final decisions will be shared as they become available.
2025 Cross-Pacific AI Initiative Funded Projects:
- AI-driven Digital Platform for Dynamic Management of Supply Chains of Perishable Goods
- Juming Tang, Professor and Chair, Industrial & Systems Engineering, University of Washington
- Marcos Neves, Associate Professor, Institute of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba
- Tofael Ahamed, Associate Professor, Institute of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba
- Timothy Jacobs, Vice President, Applied AI and Machine Learning, Walmart; Affiliate Professor of UW Industrial & Systems Engineering
- Smartphone-based AI-powered Early Detection and Monitoring of Community-Acquired Pneumonia in Older Adults
- Tomoko Ito, Associate Professor, Institute of Medicine, University of Tsukuba
- Oleg Zaslavsky, Associate Professor, Biobehavioral Nursing & Health Informatics, University of Washington
- Les Atlas, Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Washington
- Real-Time Adaptive AI for Sleep Diagnosis, Treatment and Therapy
- Shun Nakajima, Principal Investigator, International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine, University of Tsukuba
- Shih-Chieh Hsu, Professor, Physics, University of Washington
- Amy Orsborn, Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering and Bioengineering, University of Washington
- Eli Shlizerman, Associate Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering and Applied Math, University of Washington
- Scott Hauck, Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, UniversityofWashington
- Kei Muroi, Researcher, International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine, University of Tsukuba
- Shio Maeda, Researcher, International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine, University of Tsukuba
- Hiroku Noma, doctoral student, Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences, University of Tsukuba
- Hiroyuki Kitagawa, Professor, International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine, University of Tsukuba
- Scalable Training of Robotic Foundation Models from Video with Latent Actions
- Luke Zettlemoyer, Professor, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington
- Dieter Fox, Professor, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington
- Inferring Strategic Behavior to Ensure Trustworthy Multi-agent AI Systems
- Natasha Jaques, Assistant Professor, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington
- Max Kleiman-Weiner, Assistant Professor, Foster School of Business, University of Washington
- Lillian Ratliff, Associate Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Washington
- Simon Du, Assistant Professor, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington
- Kevin Jamieson, Associate Professor, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington
- Social Dynamics AI: Transforming Social Interaction with Self and Others through Human Augmentation Technologies
- Kenji Suzuki, Dean and Professor, Institute of Systems and Information Engineering, University of Tsukuba
- Anind K. Dey, Dean and Professor, Information School, University of Washington
- Creating Mediator AI to Help Humans and Life-Support Robots Coexist in Aging Societies
- Fumihide Tanaka, Professor, Institute of Systems and Information Engineering, University of Tsukuba
- Maya Cakmak, Professor, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington
- AI-Enabled Smart Nursing Care System: Advancing Patient Care through Intelligent Monitoring and Decision Support
- Taiga Shibayama,Professor, Institute of Medicine, University of Tsukuba
- Yoshiki Abe, Assistant Professor, Institute of Medicine, University of Tsukuba
- Rie Kudoh, Assistant Professor, Institute of Medicine, University of Tsukuba,
- Atsumi Iikura, Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences, University of Tsukuba