Professor Hiroaki Kitano

Hiroaki Kitano is a Professor at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Okinawa, and a President at The Systems Biology Institute, 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.

Kitano is also a Founding Editor-in-Chief of npj Systems Biology and Applications, a 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), as well as a fellow of the Association for Advancement of the Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).

His research at Carnegie Mellon University on AI and massively parallel computing focusing on a large-scale data-driven machine translation system on massively parallel computers were recognized for the Computers and Thought Award from the International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence in 1993. Research at Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc. and California Institute of Technology on integration of systems science, control theory, computational modeling and biology resulted in systems biology and a series of pioneering work in the field.