Yumi Iwashita (S’04-M’07-SM2020) is a Robotics Scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, California and an adjunct associate professor at Kyushu University, Japan, since 2016. She received her M.S. degree and her Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, Kyushu University in 2004 and 2007 respectively. In 2007, she was a postdoctoral scholar at Imperial College London under Professor Maria Petrou. From 2007 to 2014, she was an assistant professor at Kyushu University. From 2011 to 2013, she was a visiting scientist at NASA JPL. From 2014 to 2016, she was an associate professor at Kyushu University. She has over 14 years of engineering experience in performing and leading research in computer vision and machine learning. Before 2020 she led six projects funded by the Japan government, six JPL sponsored projects, and three projects funded by a commercial company. Research topics include motion capture system, gait-based person recognition for CCTV cameras, terrain classification for future Mars rovers, localization of underwater vehicles, and forecast of Earth-based resource production.
