Our CTO Tsuzuki Delivered a Lecture at the RIKEN BDR Summer School
Our CTO Tsuzuki participated in the summer school hosted by RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR), held from September 2–6, 2019, and delivered a lecture on “Automated Optimization of Experimental Protocols Using Bayesian Optimization.”
The summer school was organized as part of the retinal regenerative medicine research and development project led by Professor Masayo Takahashi, with the research theme of “Culturing iPS Cells Using Robots and AI.”
Participants also engaged in hands-on training using our experimental protocol automated optimization system (EpOpt), currently under development.
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