Kenji Takeda
Director, Research Incubations
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Microsoft Fusion Summit explores how AI can accelerate fusion research
| Kenji Takeda, Shruti Rajurkar, and Ade Famoti
The first Microsoft Research Fusion Summit brought together global experts to explore how AI can help unlock the potential of fusion energy. Discover how collaborations with leading institutions can help speed progress toward clean, scalable energy.
In the news | ITER
Microsoft and ITER to harness the power of AI
Microsoft Research and ITER, who is building the world's largest fusion reactor, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to work together to apply artificial intelligence (AI) and other digital technologies to help engineers construct the ITER machine and accelerate research…
In the news | Microsoft Source EMEA
Nuclear fusion: Delivering on the promise of carbon‑free power with the help of AI
ITER, home to the world's largest fusion experiment, and Microsoft Research have signed a memorandum of understanding regarding a potential research collaboration, particularly on issues involved in modeling future experiments.
In the news | Financial Times
Doing more with less: how one hospital has adapted to NHS crisis
Not all the interventions are so simple. In the radiotherapy department, oncologist Dr Raj Jena explained that when a patient comes in for curative radiotherapy it can take up to two hours to mark up the tumor in order to…
Awards | Microsoft Global Hackathon 2021
Microsoft Microsoft Global Hackathon 2021 Challenge Winner
Kenji Takeda won either 1st, 2nd, or 3rd place in the Microsoft Global Hackathon 2021 Executive Challenge. The Hackathon Executive Challenges are sponsored by Microsoft leaders in strategic business areas.
Awards | Health Data Research UK
Kenji Takeda contributes to Team of the Year at HDR UK One Institute Conference
Congratulations to Kenji Takeda for his contribution to winning “Team of the Year” at the Health Data Research UK One Institute Conference. The award recognized the Cloud-based integration of patient data to aid rare disease research.
Changing the world with data science
| Kenji Takeda
Alan Turing asked the question “can machines think?” in 1950 and it still intrigues us today. At The Alan Turing Institute, the United Kingdom’s national institute for data science in London, more than 150 researchers are pursuing this question by…
Measuring human happiness and frustration using data science in the cloud
| Kenji Takeda
Emotions make us human. Researchers at The Alan Turing Institute in the United Kingdom are using artificial intelligence and machine learning to push the state of the art in data science to better understand what makes us happy, angry and…
Counting every person on Earth to eradicate poverty and empower women
| Kenji Takeda
The number one United Nations Sustainable Development Goal is to eliminate poverty, leaving nobody behind. Researchers in the United Kingdom are harnessing the large-scale data-processing power of Microsoft Azure to map the location of every person on Earth to provide…