Professor Takio Kurita received a B.Eng. degree from Nagoya Institute of Technology in 1981 and a Dr. Eng. degree from the University of Tsukuba in 1993. He joined the Electrotechnical Laboratory, AIST, MITI in 1981 and was a visiting research scientist at the Institute for Information Technology, National Research Council Canada from 1990 to 1991. From 2001 to 2009, he served as the deputy director of the Neuroscience Research Institute at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST). Additionally, he held a professorship at the Graduate School of Systems and Information Engineering at the University of Tsukuba from 2002 to 2009. From 2010 to 2024, he was a professor at Hiroshima University, where he focused on statistical pattern recognition and its applications to image recognition. He retired from Hiroshima University in 2024. 

He is an emeritus professor at Hiroshima University. He is currently working as an Invited Senior Researcher at the National Institute of Industrial Science and Technology (AIST). He is also a visiting researcher at the Education and Research Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Innovation, Hiroshima University.