Kana EGUCHI (IEEE M’17–SM’21) is a senior lecturer at the Human Systems Laboratory, Human Machine Symbiosis Laboratories, Systems Science Course, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University.

She received her B.E. degree from the Kyoto Institute of Technology, Kyoto, Japan, in 2010, and her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in informatics from Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, in 2012 and 2020, respectively.

She was appointed to her current position in April 2024. Before this, she was a Program-Specific Assistant Professor at the Department of Real World Data Research and Development, the Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, from July 2022 to March 2024.  Before starting her academic research career, she had approximately 10 years of work experience as a company researcher at Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) Corporation, Tokyo, Japan.

Her current research interests include medical engineering (ME), biosignal processing, wearable sensing systems, medical informatics (MI), and human-computer interaction (HCI).

• Mar. 2020: Ph. D in Informatics (Kyoto University)

• Mar. 2012: Master in Informatics (Kyoto University)

• Mar. 2010: B. E. (Kyoto Institute of Technology)

• Apr. 2022-Present: Bachelor Program,
  Department of Psychology and Education, Faculty of Liberal Arts,
  The Open University of Japan, Chiba, JAPAN

• Apr. 2016-Mar. 2019: Ph. D. Program,
  Department of Social Informatics, Graduate School of Informatics,
  Kyoto University, Kyoto, JAPAN

• Apr. 2010-Mar. 2012: Master Program,
  Department of Social Informatics, Graduate School of Informatics,
  Kyoto University, Kyoto, JAPAN

• Aug. 2008-Sep. 2008: General English Programme (21 hours per week for 6 weeks, Upper Intermediate Level),
  University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

• Apr. 2006-Mar. 2010: Bachelor Program,
  Information Science Course, Division of Engineering Design, School of Science and Technology,
  Kyoto Institute of Technology, Kyoto, JAPAN

• Apr. 2003-Mar. 2006: Courses of Academic Inquiry on Culture and Science/Academic Inquiry on Science,  
  Kyoto Municipal Horikawa Senior High School, Kyoto, JAPAN

International

• 2017-Present: The IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) 

  • 2021-Present: Senior Member

  • 2017-2021: Member

Domestic (Japan)

• 2022-Present: Human Interface Society: ヒューマンインタフェース学会

• 2022-Present: Japan Association for Medical Informatics (JAMI): 日本医療情報学会

• 2018-Present: Japanese Society of Sleep Research (JSSR): 日本睡眠学会 

• 2017-Present: Japanese Society for Medical and Biomedical Engineering (JSMBE): 日本生体医工学会 

• 2014-Present: The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE): 電子情報通信学会 

Full-Time

• Apr. 2024-Present: [Senior Lecturer] Kyoto University
  Human Systems Laboratory, Human Machine Symbiosis Laboratories,
  Systems Science Course,
  Department of Informatics, Graduate School of Informatics

• Jul. 2022-Mar. 2024: [Program-Specific Assistant Professor] Kyoto University
  Department of Real World Data Research and Development, Graduate School of Medicine

• Apr. 2012-Jun. 2022: [Research Engineer] Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation

  • Apr. 2022-Jun. 2022: NTT Communication Science Laboratories / Bio-Medical Informatics Research Center, NTT Basic Research Laboratories

  • Jul. 2021-Mar. 2022: NTT Smart Data Science Center / Bio-Medical Informatics Research Center, NTT Basic Research Laboratories

  • Aug. 2012-Jun. 2021: NTT Service Evolution Laboratories

  • Apr. 2012-Jul. 2012: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone West Corporation

Part-time/Concurrent Affiliation

• Dec. 2023-Mar. 2024: [Adjunct lecturer] Kyoto Institute of Technology

• Sep. 2023-Oct. 2023: [Visiting fellow for Research and Innovation] UZH Healthy Longevity Center, University of Zurich, Switzerland

  • Links

    • https://www.hlc.uzh.ch/en/people/visiting_fellows/keguchi.html

    • https://www.linkedin.com/posts/uzh-hlc_welcome-at-the-university-of-zurich-dr-kana-activity-7112299318719442944-0KN8/

    • https://www.global.uzh.ch/en/global_university/global-activities/improving-healthcare-through-real-world-data.html

• Apr. 2023-Sep. 2023: [Adjunct lecturer] Kyoto Institute of Technology

• Oct. 2019-Mar. 2020: [Registered researcher] Kyoto University Hospital, Kyoto University

• Sep. 2011: [Summer Intern (Business analyst)] Credit Suisse

• Aug. 2011-Sep. 2011: [Summer Intern (Researcher)] Panasonic Electric Works Co., Ltd.