Birth year and place

1958, Tokyo , JAPAN

Education

1981-1983 graduate school of the University of Tokyo, M.Eng. in Information Engineering 

Research Theme: Information Processing by Self-Organizing Neural Field  (Supervisor: Prof. Shun-ichi Amari). 

1979-1981 undergraduate school of the University of Tokyo, B.Eng. in Mathematical Engineering 

Research Theme: The Fractal Structure of Basins Produced by Coupling an Integrate-and-Fire Neural Oscillator and Periodic Inputs.  (Supervisor: Prof. Jin-ichi Nagumo). 

Employment / Affiliation

2023/9- TSC-Fellow, New Energy and Industrial Technoology Development Organization

2021-  Invited Senior Researcher,  Artificial Intelligence Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology.

2020-  Adjunct Researcher, Institute for AI and Robotics, Waseda University

2019-  Director (CTO), Novuscare Ltd.

2019- 2024/3 Senior Technical Advisor, SCSK Corporation.

2019-2024/3  Invited Research Engineer, KDDI Research, Inc.

2013-  Visiting Lecturer, The University of Tokyo.

2020/4-2021/3  Principal Research Manager, Artificial Intelligence Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology.

2015/5-2020/3 Deputy Director, Artificial Intelligence Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology.

2013-2015/3 Chief Senior Researcher, Humanoid Research Group, Intelligent Systems Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Science and Technology.

2009-2012 Senior Researcher, Interaction Modeling Research Group, Intelligent Systems Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology.

2004-2008 Senior Researcher, Media Interaction Group, Information Technology Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology.

2002-2003 Senior Researcher, Media Interaction Group, Information Processing Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology.

2001-2002 Group Leader, Media Interaction Group, Information Processing Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology.

1999 Visiting Lecturer, Chiba University. 

1999 Visiting Lecturer, The University of Tokyo. 

1993-2001 Visiting Lecturer, Nihon University. 

1993-1994 Visiting Research Scientist, German National Research Center for Information Technology (GMD) in Sankt Augustin, Germany. 

1990-2001 Senior Research Scientist, Electrotechnical Laboratory in Tsukuba.

1990-1991 Visiting Technical Official, Machinery & Information Industries Bureau, Ministry of International Trade and Industry.

1989-1991 Visiting Lecturer, Seikei University. 

1989, 1992 Visiting Lecturer, Tokushima University. 

1983-1990 Researcher, Electrotechnical Laboratory in Tsukuba.

Activities

2018- Member, Steering Committee,  The Institute of Statistical Mathematics

2017- Member, External Evaluation Committee, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)

2015 Reviewer, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2015).

2012-2014 Special Member, Editorial Board, Journal of IEICE.

2011-2012 Chair, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Japan Chapter.

2008 Member, Program Committee, Neuro2010.

2008-2010 Member, Editorial Board, Journal of IEICE.

2008 Member, Program Committee, 15th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP08).

2008- Member, Program Committee, Annual Conference of JNNS.

2008-2015 Member, Advisory Board, Synthesis of Knowledge for Information Oriented Society, PREST Program, JST.

2007 Member, Program Committee, 14th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP07).

2006 Reviewer, 20th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-07).

2006 Chair, Special Interest Group for Neuro Computing, IEICE ISS.

2006-2007 Member, Editorial Board, IEICE Information and Systems Society Journal.

2005- Member, Editorial Board, Behaviormetrika.

2005 Chair, Organizing Committee, 2005 Workshop on Information-Based Induction Sciences (IBIS2005).

2003 Member, Program Committee, 9th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA2003)  Track8 on Intelligent Robots and Systems.

2002-2003 Member, Program Committee, Annual Conference of JNNS.

2001-2002 Member, Organizing Committee, 7th Pacific-Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence.

2001 Member, Organizing Committee, Annual Conference of JSAI.

2001- Reviewer, IEICE Transactions.

2000-2001 Member, Board of Directors, Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence.

2000- Member, Steering Committee, Workshop on Information-Based Induction Sciences (IBIS).

2000 Chair, Program Committee, 2000 Workshop on Information-Based Induction Sciences (IBIS2000). 

1999 Member, Editorial Committee, Trans. IEICE Fundamentals, Special Section on Information-Based Induction Sciences.

1999 Member, Program Committee, Annual Conference of JNNS. 

1999 Member, Program Committee, 1999 Workshop on Information-Based Induction Sciences (IBIS'99). 

1998- Reviewer, Journal of the Japanese Society of Information Processing. 

1998 Member, Program Committee, 1998 International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP'98). 

1997-2000 Associate Editor, IEICE Transactions on Fundamental of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences.

1997 Member, Program Committee, 1997 RWC Symposium. 

1995-2001 Organizer, WG on Theoretical and Algorithmic Foundations for Real-World Intelligence, RWCP. 

1995-2001 Sub-Organizer, SIG-CII (Information Integration), Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI). 

1995-1997 Member, Program Committee, Annual Conference of JNNS. 

1993-1994 Sub-Organizer, SIG-FAI (Foundation of Artificial Intelligence), Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI). 

1993-2001 Action Editor, Neural Networks.

1993 Member, Program Committee, 1993 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN'93). 

1993-1996 Member, Board of Directors, Japanese Neural Network Society. 

1989-1996 Reviewer, IEICE Transactions. 

Association 

Fellow, Information and Systems Society, IEICE

Member, Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI) (Member of Board of Directors, 2000-2001).

Member, the Japanese Neural Network Society (JNNS) (Member of Board of Directors, 1993-1996).

Member, the Behaviormetric Society of Japan (Member of Board of Directors, 2013-2014).

Award

2022 Co-Recipient, 2022 ECML-PKDD Test of Time Award for "Fairness-Aware Classifier with Prejudice Remover Regularizer."

2019 Co-Recipient, JSAI Annual Conference Award  for "Design a Loss Function which Generates a Spatial Configuration of Image In-betweening ."

1999 Co-Recipient, JSAI Kenkyu-Shorei Award for "Jijo2 Robot to Support Intelligent Task in an Office Environment." 

1989 Recipient, IEICE Shinohara Gakujyutsu Shourei Award for "A Model of Concept Formation with Boltzmann Machine." 

1988 Co-Recipient, the Behaviormetric Society of Japan, Superior Research Award for "Nonlinear Extentions of Multivariate Data Analysis Methods."