HASIDA Koiti

Koiti Hasida finished his doctoral study at the Graduate School of Science, the University of Tokyo in 1986, obtaining the degree of Doctor of Science. He was affiliated with Electrotechnical Laboratory for 1986-2001 (seconded to the Institute for New Generation Computer Technology for 1988-1992) and with National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology for 2001-2013. He has been in the present position since 2013, and concurrently at RIKEN Center for Integrative Research on Innovative Intelligence since 2017. His research themes encompass natural-language processing, artificial intelligence, and cognitive science, among others, and he served as President of the Association for Natural Language Processing and President of the Japanese Cognitive Science Society. He has proposed technologies and business models for value creation through decentralized management of personal data, and is promoting the spread of these models in collaboration with public and private sectors.