FRONTEO Inc. (Headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo, President: Masahiro Morimoto) is an advisor to the Institute of Behavioral Information Science and Yukio Osawa, a professor of the Department of Systems Innovation, Graduate School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo. , Professor Osawa) announced that he was appointed.

As a pioneer in data market design, Professor Osawa is working on the construction of a data market using the analysis method "Data Jacket" that he developed.Through research that transcends boundaries between industry, academia, territory, and country, we have the knowledge to capture and visualize valuable data and drive new innovations and value creation in society.

Professor Osawa gave a keynote speech at the "AI business innovation forum" hosted by our company on November 2019, 11. Based on the possibilities of AI and the current limits, I sympathized with the consideration of the ideal way of social implementation considering the actual situation of human beings as a social existence, and this time I was invited as an advisor.

Through this appointment as an advisor, FRONTEO will ask Professor Osawa for advice from a strategic perspective in the development of behavioral information science research. FRONTEO will continue research with the aim of creating a society in which AI and people can grow together.

■ Biography: Yukio Osawa Professor, Department of Systems Innovation, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo

After obtaining a doctor of engineering from the Graduate School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo in 1995, he became an assistant professor at the Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, an assistant professor at the Graduate School of Business Sciences at Tsukuba University, a specially appointed assistant professor at the Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering, the University of Tokyo, and the system creation of the Graduate School of Engineering. After working as an associate professor in the Department of Science, he has been a professor since July 2009.He founded opportunity discovery science and data market design science at the boundary between intelligent informatics and design science, cognitive science, and held international conferences and industry-academia WS. From 7 onwards, he will lead workshops such as Market of Data to success at the IEEE Data Mining International Conference (ICDM) from the perspective of the data market.

In addition to 2003 editorial books including Chance Discovery (Springer, 2017), Innovators' Marketplace (Springer 2017), and Data Market (Modern Science Co., Ltd. 24), more than 100 journal articles, about 200 international conference treatises, in both industry and academia. Many invited lectures.

Former Director of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (2017-18).Received the Achievement Award of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (2017).

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FRONTEO Inc. has developed its own artificial intelligence engine "KIBIT".^®(Kibit) ”and“ concept encoder^®(Concept encoder) ”is a data analysis company that supports information analysis such as big data.Established in August 2003 as a company that supports e-discovery (electronic discovery), which preserves, investigates, and analyzes electronic data necessary for international litigation, and digital forensic investigations.In-house developed data analysis platform "Lit i View"^®(Lit Eye View) ”,“ Predictive Coding Predictive Coding^®(Predictive Coding) ”technology is used to provide legal proceedings support to companies.The unique artificial intelligence-related technology cultivated and developed in this legal business learns "tacit knowledge" such as expert experience and intuition, and realizes prediction of future behavior from analysis of human thoughts.We have expanded into areas such as life science and business intelligence, and have achieved results in "work style reform" in addition to FinTech and RegTech. Listed on TSE Mothers on June 2007, 6 and NASDAQ on May 26, 2013.The capital is 5 thousand yen (as of March 16, 2,559,206). As of July 2019, 3, the company name has been changed from UBIC Co., Ltd. to the current company name.