The University of Tokyo Urban transformation

Yuji Yoshimura, architect and PhD in computer science (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), is a project associate professor at the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Tokyo. From 2001 to 2017, he was mainly based in Barcelona, Spain, working at Barcelona Urban Ecology Agency, Center for Innovation in Transport (CENIT), and from 2017 to 2019, he did his postdoctoral research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Since 2019, he has been based in Tokyo, Japan. He is currently the scientific advisor for the Louvre Museum and Institut Municipal d’Informàtica (IMI). His research focuses on urban science, which represents the intersections of architecture, urban planning, and science. His projects include big data analyses in the Louvre via Bluetooth sensors and the classification of architectural design through the artificial intelligence.