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Hiroaki Kitano

My major preoccupation has always been how to find far-reaching solutions to major problems and what frameworks must be created to accelerate progress towards those solutions. I studied particle physics in college, later moving into computer science, in particular artificial intelligence research, and then engaging in research into massively parallel artificial intelligence, voice recognition systems, and machine learning. But I felt that in order to accelerate progress in AI and robotics, it would be necessary to establish some kind of big goal and global project. This became RoboCup, a project with the target of developing a team of fully autonomous humanoid robots able to win the FIFA World Cup by 2050. At the same time, I started to realize that intelligence is a byproduct of evolution, so I would have to study life itself. And so I switched to biosciences research, where I soon recognized the need for a conceptual shift from reductionist research into genes and proteins to a systems thinking approach. In order to accelerate that shift, I advocated 'systems biology' an emerging area of life science back in mid 90's, which is well accepted discipline in life science today. At the same time, it became clear that human intelligence may fall short of handling vastness and complexity of living systems and data generated to uncrack the system. Artificial Intelligence system has to be developed that can assist human in scientific research and accelerate the speed of scientific discovery. This may imply the modality of scientific research itself may be transformed into Human-AI symbiotic activities.

[Keywords]
Systems Biology / Artificial Intelligence / Robotics / Design / Energy

Activities

【Conference 12/3 - 6】SIGGRAPH Asia 2024
Two presentations were accepted for the demonstration exhibition and two for the poster exhibition.
2024/11/25
2024/10/7
[INFO]CEO Hiroaki Kitano and senior researcher Frank Nielsen have been named among the 2023 Stanford's list World Top 2% scientists.
2024/2/21
[Article] Auxiliary self-supervision to metric learning for music similarity-based retrieval and auto-tagging
2023/12/8
2022 Company Brochure
2022/9/28
【PAPER】Systems Medicine - Toxicity Analysis of Pentachlorophenol Data with a Bioinformatics Tool Set
Dr. Hiroaki Kitano and Dr. N. Polouliakh et al
2022/4/21
2022/3/1
2022/3/1
［PRESS RELEASE］Open House 2022【3/16~18】
2022/2/21
For the Future of Humanity and Our Planet
Mission statement
2022/2/21
2021/12/9
Deep Tech Summit 2021
Dr. Kitano talks about "Deep Tech in 2050 "
2021/10/19
2021/9/29
2021/8/11
Nature’s npj Systems Biology and Applications
Nobel Turing Challenge: creating the engine for scientific discovery
2021/6/18
Dr. Hiroaki Kitano Named Fellow by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
2021/2/2
Kyoto LaboratoryOpening Symposium
2020/12/24
2020/12/24
Forbes Online
Japan's Moonshot Research Program Is Taking On The Biggest Challenges
2020/11/28
【GPIF】The final report
2020/10/9
2020/7/20
New Publication
A new journal by Natalia Polouliakh et al. is published.
2020/7/7
Asianinvestor Asset Management Awards for 2020
【Award】Best Institutional Product/Strategy
2020/5/8
【GPIF】Interim Report -
An article on Bloomberg Opinion
2020/1/31
【2 years in a row!】
5th Annual EQDerivatives Awards
2020/1/28
12/17-18 Moonshot Intentional Symposium
Dr. Kitano to talk and moderate a discussion
2019/12/6
2019/11/13
2019/11/5
2019/10/1
2019/9/3
SONY Technology site
Dr. Kitano's recent interview on Sony's AI
2019/8/15
2019/6/26
An article on machineByte
About "A Study on the Use of Artificial Intelligence within Government Pension Investment Fund's Investment Management Practices (Summary Report) ", a study commissioned by Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF)
2019/5/23
NIKKEI AI/SUM 2019
Kitano will discuss "AI Strategy of Japan in the new era"
2019/4/23
SXSW2019
Stories movie from the event now available online
2019/4/23
The Volatility & Risk Premia Awards 2019
the Academic Research Paper of The Year to Sony CSL researchers and GPIF
2019/3/12
New Publication
Book commemorates 30th anniversary of Sony CSL
2019/2/25
2019/1/15
2019/1/7
2018/12/27
New Publication
2018/12/13
Sony CSL 30th Anniversary Open House Report
October 23 -24, 2018
2018/11/22
2018/10/22
[GPIF] Summary on a study on AI
2018/10/10
BMC Genomics
Article by N.Polouliakh et al has been published
2018/9/28
Technological innovation and social value：
New article on H.Kitano's discussion with Andrew W. Moore from CMU
2018/9/12
2018/8/23
2018/8/22
2018/8/21
2018/7/31
日経エレクトロニクス2018年2月号
2018/1/25
[NEWS]
Sony CSL selected as Partner by GPIF to study the impacts of AI
2017/11/30
特別シンポジウム「AIネイティブと教育」
2017/10/20
2017 Sony CSR Reporting:
Introducting Sony CSL's "Synecoculture" and "Open Energy Systems"
2017/9/7
日テレNEWS24
2017/9/4
Sony CSL to Co-host
ICF2017 (10/12-10/14)
2017/8/31
HBR 8月号
2017/7/10
NHK NEWS WEB
2017/5/26
第1回AI・人工知能EXPO
2017/5/26
Partnership on AI
Dr. Kitano to represent Sony
2017/5/16
[Sony Official]Movies introducing Sony CSL
Part 1 - Part 3
2017/4/28
ソニーと東京大学
2017/3/21
G1経営者会議2016
2017/3/3
WEBマガジンロボスタ
2017/2/17
WIRED Magazine Spring 2017
2017/2/13
ロボカップ 2017名古屋世界大会インタビュー
2017/1/26
日経テクノロジーonline
2016/12/19
ICF2016
Dr. Kitano to give a talk
2016/9/26
IJCAI-2016 Industrial Day (7/15)
Dr. Kitano to give a keynote
2016/7/14
AI & Robotics
Sony begins recruiting talent
2016/7/12
文藝春秋8月号
2016/7/11
Nature Cafe
2016/7/7
Article on AI Magazine :
Hiroaki Kitano
2016/4/14
4/21 Nature Cafe （科学の夕べ）開催に協力
2016/4/1
六本木ヒルズクラブ ランチョンセミナー:
2016/3/28
人工知能学会誌　Vol. 31 No.2
2016/3/3
日経エレ2月号
2016/2/22
「ロボティックス最前線」日経産業新聞（編）：
2016/1/7
人工知能学会誌　Vol. 31
2016/1/6
ソニーコンピュータサイエンス研究所
2015/11/4
Hiroaki Kitano
Opening - CSL Open House (Japanese)
2015/10/14
ソニーCSLにみる「北野流マネジメント」を紐解く（後編）
2015/10/13
「KMD SALON 2015」
2015/10/8
ソニーCSLにみる「北野流マネジメント」を紐解く（前編）
2015/10/5
New Article
2015/8/3
New Publication
2015/3/23
2015/2/2
New Article
2014/11/6
大阪大学 超域
2014/11/1
New Article
2014/9/30
Hiroaki kitano
THINK EXTREME
2014/9/22
New Article
You can read a story featuring Sony CSL in DIGITAL TRENDS.
2014/8/1
Japan Summit 2014
Hiroaki Kitano, will be speaking at the upcoming "Japan Summit 2014".
2014/4/4
デジタル・ショック 2014
2014/2/21
New Article
2014/2/17
OES Symposium
Report on"The 1st International Symposium on Open Energy Systems".
2014/1/22
OESシンポジウム
2014/1/14
OES国際シンポジウムを開催
2014/1/8
New Article
2013/10/31
New Article
2013/10/21
ABC Radio Interview
Hiroaki Kitano, CSL President & Director, spoke to RN Drive, a radio program in Australia.
2013/10/16
New Article
2013/10/8
２５周年シンポジウム動画
2013/10/7
New Article
2013/9/30
New Article
2013/5/27
2013/5/20
MIT Media Lab @Tokyo 2013
Hiroaki Kitano, Ken Mogi, and Ken Endo, will be participating in the "MIT Media Lab @ Tokyo 2013 "
2013/1/15
New Article
2012/12/3
81tech.tv×Sony CSL
2012/8/1
2012/7/11
New Publication
A new article by CSL Director, Hiroaki Kitano has been published in the Molecular Systems Biology,
2012/4/25
New Publication
A new article by CSL Director, Hiroaki Kitano has been published in the Nature Reviews Genetics Nov. 2011.
2011/11/14
New Publication
A new article by CSL Director, Hiroaki Kitano has been published in the Nature Chemical Biology.
2011/5/26
New Publication
A new article by Yuki Yoshida, Hiroaki Kitano has been published in the Molecular Systems Biology.
2010/9/22
Open Energy System
Hiroaki Kitano, CSL Director, gave a talk on the Open Energy System among other topics.
2010/9/2
New Publication
A new article by CSL Director, Hiroaki Kitano, has been published in the Molecular Systems Biology.
2010/6/23
New Publication
Hiroaki Kitano, has been published in theFrontiers in Systems Physiology.
2010/5/10
Nature Awards
H.Kitano, was awarded the Nature Awards for Mentorship in Science from the Nature Publishing Group.
2009/12/2
New Publication
A new article by CSL Director, Hiroaki Kitano et al, titled has been published in PLoS Computational Biology.
2009/11/4
New Publication
A new article by CSL Director, Hiroaki Kitano and his collaborators, has been published.
2009/8/10
北野宏明のインタビュー公開
2008/8/25
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Hiroaki Kitano, Ph.D. is President of Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc. (Sony CSL) and Executive Deputy President and Chief Technology Officer of Sony Group Corporation, overseeing the R&D ecosystem across Sony's diverse business, including electronics, semiconductors, and entertainment. He is also President of Sony Research Inc.  His work at Carnegie Mellon University to build large-scale data-driven AI systems on massively parallel computers led to The Computers and Thought Award from the International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) in 1993. The quest continued at Sony CSL and at California Institute of Technology gave rise to the field of systems biology, merging biology and systems science. Kitano is the Founding President of the RoboCup Federation, president of IJCAI (2009-2011), and a member of scientific advisory boards for numerous academic institutions, including the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), and a professor at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate School. He is a recipient of the Nature Award for Creative Mentoring in Science in 2009 and a fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. Kitano was an invited artist for La Biennale di Venezia (2000) and for Workspheres exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art - New York (2001).

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