About
Hiroaki Kitano is a President at The Systems Biology Institute, Tokyo, a Professor at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Okinawa, a President & CEO at Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc., Tokyo, a Representative Director and CEO, Sony Research Inc., Tokyo and a Senior Executive Vice President and CTO at Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo.
He received a B.A. in physics from the International Christian University, Tokyo, and a Ph.D. in computer science from Kyoto University, Kyoto. Since 1988, he has been a visiting researcher at the Center for Machine Translation at Carnegie Mellon University, USA. His research career includes a Project Director at Kitano Symbiotic Systems Project, ERATO, Japan Science and Technology Corporation, Tokyo, followed by a Project Director at Kitano Symbiotic Systems Project, ERATO-SORST, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Tokyo, a Group Director of Laboratory for Disease Systems Modeling at RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Kanagawa, a visiting professor of Keio University, Kanagawa, a visiting professor of the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, and so on.
Kitano is also a Founding Editor-in-Chief of npj Systems Biology and Applications, and a Founding Trustee of The RoboCup Federation.
Kitano received The Computers and Thought Award from the International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence in 1993, Prix Ars Electronica 2000, Japan Design Culture Award 2001, Good Design Award 2001, and Nature’s 2009 Japan Mid-career Award for Creative Mentoring in Science, as well as being an invited artist for Biennale di Venezia 2000 and Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York at Worksphere Exhibition in 2001. He has been named a fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence for 2021.
Awards
- AAAI Fellow (Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence), 2021
- Good Design Award / Best 100 Selection (for Sustainable Living Architecture), 2019
- ISSB Fellow (International Society for Systems Biology), 2014
- Good Design Award / Special Award of Judge Committee Chair (by JIDP), 2010
- Nature Award for Creative Mentoring in Science (Mid Carrier, Japan), Nature Publishing Group, 2009
Relevant Publications
- Wurman, P.R., Barrett, S., Kawamoto, K. et al. Outracing champion Gran Turismo drivers with deep reinforcement learning. Nature 602, 223–228 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-04357-7
- Polouliakh N, Hase T, Ghosh S, Kitano H. Toxicity Analysis of Pentachlorophenol Data with a Bioinformatics Tool Set. Methods Mol Biol. 2022;2486:105-125. doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-2265-0_7. PMID: 35437721.
- Galindo-Martínez CT, Weber M, Avila-Magaña V, Enríquez S, Kitano H, Medina M, Iglesias-Prieto R. The role of the endolithic alga Ostreobium spp. during coral bleaching recovery. Sci Rep. 2022 Feb 22;12(1):2977. doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-07017-6. PMID: 35194106; PMCID: PMC8863988.