-Senior Research Scientist, Supervisor Evolutionary Systems Research Group Leader NTT Communication Science Laboratories
-Head, Evolutionary Systems Department ATR Human Information Processing Research Laboratories
-Guest Professor, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University
Education
- B. Eng., Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan(1976) - M. Eng., Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan(1978)
Research Interests
-Artificial Life and Evolutionary Systems -Synergetic Image Generation and "KANSEI" technology -Neural Networks and Artificial Brains -Communication Pet-robots -Human Interface
Awards
-The Grand Prize of Japan Inter-Design (Japan Inter-Design
Forum), 1995 -The Best Paper Award: Connectionism and Cognitive
Processing, European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems
Research, 1992