Takeshi Ohguro received B.E. and M.E. degrees in computer science from Tohoku University, in 1988 and 1990, respectively.

In 1990, he joined Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT), engaged in researches of hardware synthesis ("A guideline to construct a synchronous circuit model using VHDL," APCHDL'94, IFIP, Oct 1994), structural complexity theory ("The closure class of MIN \Sigma_0 is NPO-PB," Trans. IEICE, vol.E80-A, Jan 1997), and multiagent architecture.

From 1997, with NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Social Communication Laboratory, he started research on "socialware" (Multiagent systems with aims at supporting network communities). His main works are establishing the concept of socialware, and building applications such as "CommunityOrganizer" and "CommunityBoard." Important paper is "Socialware: Multiagent Systems for Supporting Network Communities," Communications of the ACM, March 1999 (Volume 42, No. 3), pp.55-61.

From 1999, he started researched on alternative network communication media which are targeted at connectedness oriented communication. He built the concepts of "Awareness for Connectedness," "Suggestive Agents," which open up new areas on AI and computer mediated communication and community (CmCC), that incorporates the technique of information design. He also proposed several communication tools such as "Gleams of People," and "FaintPop." Important papers are "Toward Agents which are Suggestive of ``Awareness of Connectedness''," Trans. IEICE, pp.957-967, Vol.E84-D, No.8, 2001, "Gleams of People: Monitoring the presence of people with multi-agent architecture," in Springer-Verlag LNAI 1733 (PRIMA'99 proceedings), pp. 170-182, 1999, and "FaintPop: In Touch with the Social Relationships," will be published as a part of Exploring New Frontiers in Knowledge Processing (Series "Advanced Information Processing"), in chaper Social Intelligence Design, Springer-Verlag.

He received 7th JICS prize from Japan Information-Culturology Society in 2001.

His current research interests include agent systems, communication media, computer mediated communication and community (CmCC), and information design. His technical skills are on Java technology, information design and laboratory/in-house level network design.