Yuki Nakashima is a research scientist at Multi-Materials Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Nagoya, Aichi, Japan. He received his Ph. D. degree from Nagoya Institute of technology and joined AIST in 2018. Nakashima has published more than 30 papers in peer-reviewed journals and holds 2 patents. He has given more than 3 invited/plenary/keynote talks in the field of powder processing, silicon nitride, and artificial intelligence. He has received awards including global young investigator award (2023) from the American Ceramic Society (ACerS), young investigator award (2015) at The 6th Asian Particle Technology Symposium, best presentation award (2017) at Spring Meeting of the Society of Powder Technology. His research interests include controlled microstructural design of silicon nitride ceramics for better performance as well as data-driven strategies to create artificial intelligence model with ceramic researcher-like mind and discrimination.