Takahiro Sasaki

In 1999, Takahiro Sasaki received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Keio University, Japan. His Ph.D. title was “A Study on Darwinian and Lamarckian Strategies for Evolutionary Computation.” After graduation, he located himself apart from research activities for a while. He first worked as a strategic staff at the Sony Corporation headquarters and then as a staff for technological promotion at Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc. While observing various issues within the company and also society and even larger the world as a whole during this period, he noticed that many unsolved problems are so complex that there could be no single-bullet solution to completely solve them. This led him to an interest in the notion of “open systems science”, and brought him back to the field of academic research in 2008. Besides his research activities, he loves nature and living things. He is currently enthusiastic about hunting rhinoceros beetles and stag beetles in the woods. He recently got two young Silky Fowls in his garden and looks forward to gathering eggs for his breakfast in the near future. Outside of my research, I like staying physically active. I especially enjoy bouldering, where figuring out how to reach the top reminds me of the process of solving constraint satisfaction problems.