We are delighted to welcome Dr. Nazmun Nahid, who earned her Ph.D. from the Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan, specializing in AI-enabled digital health, elderly activity recognition, and human–computer interaction. Her research centers on designing context-aware and personalized monitoring systems for vulnerable populations, with a strong emphasis on real-world deployment in long-term care environments.

Dr. Nahid has been a core contributor to several large-scale interdisciplinary projects. Under the JST MIRAI initiative, she worked on personalized elderly monitoring systems for dementia care facilities, contributing to research protocol design, real-world data collection, and the development of machine learning models for behavior and activity analysis. Her work aimed to bridge clinical care requirements with AI-driven sensing and decision support systems.

Through the Yaskawa–Chiho-Sousei industry–academic collaboration, she contributed to mixed-reality-based human–robot collaboration systems, integrating human behavioral modeling with MR interfaces to enable safe and intuitive close-proximity interaction between humans and robots, from system design to real-world deployment.

Internationally, Dr. Nahid served as a visiting researcher at the University of East London (UK), where she worked on automated autism assessment systems using multimodal sensing and ensemble learning to support scalable and objective robot-assisted therapy. Her broader research portfolio includes AR-based mobile applications for nurse assistance, generative AI-based 3D human motion synthesis with domain-knowledge constraints, and workload-aware nurse scheduling and reallocation systems.

Her technical expertise spans machine learning, mobile and wearable sensing, behavioral modeling, and digital intervention design. She has received several prestigious honors, including the JST GE SPRING Fellowship, along with recognitions from ACM, IEEE, and NVIDIA. Alongside her research, Dr. Nahid is actively involved in mentoring, teaching simulation and Unity-based development, academic service, and community outreach. She is currently contributing to the JST RISTEX government-funded project, focusing on socio-technical solutions to improve the quality, efficiency, and sustainability of elderly care systems in Japan.