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Shun Yamashina

• Profile
  Engaged in the development of AI infrastructure such as AI-RAN, as well as AI models and AI use cases including autonomous driving, robotics, and the Large Telecom Model, in order to realize SoftBank’s vision for next-generation social infrastructure.
• Research areas
  • Development of key technologies related to MaaS (Mobility as a Service)
  • Development of technologies to simplify the operation of autonomous driving
  • Research and development of a mobile core utilizing the public cloud.
• Major Presentation
  • [AWS Summit Online Japan 2020 Presentation] Business Development and Platform Strategy for the Autonomous Driving Era
  • Supporting safe autonomous driving with AI-powered remote monitoring technology.
    A challenge toward the social implementation of autonomous driving
  • [NVIDIA AI Summit Japan] SoftBank’s Vision for AI-RAN Foundational Technologies and AI Use Cases
• Major achievements
  • SoftBank Corp. Develops Traffic Understanding Multimodal AI for Autonomous Driving that Operates on Low-latency Edge AI Servers
  • SoftBank Corp. Implements NVIDIA AI Enterprise on Edge AI Server of “AITRAS” Converged AI-RAN Solution
  • SoftBank Corp. Develops Orchestrator to Operate AI and vRAN on the Same Virtualized Infrastructure
  • SoftBank Corp. and Nokia Achieve AI and vRAN Coexistence with Automated Optimal Resource Allocation on a Single Server
  • SoftBank Corp. and Red Hat Develop Solution to Optimize Power Consumption in AI-RAN Data Centers
  • SoftBank Corp. Develops “Remote Autonomous Driving Support System” on AITRAS Edge AI Server
  • SoftBank Corp.'s “AITRAS” Deployed at NVIDIA Headquarters to Enable Development of New Edge AI Applications
• How I spend my days off
  As I go on road trips and drive my children to soccer practice—often getting stuck in traffic—I feel increasingly motivated to contribute to the development of autonomous driving services.