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Kensaku MORI has received the B.S degree in electronics engineering, the M.S degree in Information Engineering, and the Ph.D in Information Engineering from Nagoya University, Japan, under the supervision of Prof. Jun-ichiro Toriwaki, in 1992, 1994 and 1996 respectively. He was a research fellow of the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) from 1994 to 1997, Research Associate at Department of Computational Science and Engineering, Nagoya University from 1997 to 2000, an assistant professor in 2000. He was Associate Professor at the Research Center for Advance Waste and Emission Management of Nagoya University from 2001 to 2003. He was also Visiting Associate Professor at Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University from 2001 to 2002. He was Associate Professor of the Graduate School of Information Science, Nagoya University from 2003 to 2009. He has been Professor of Information and Communications Headquarters, Nagoya University since 2009. In 2016, he started his services as the Directory of Information Technology Center, Nagoya University. In 2017, he was appointed as the Vice Chair of Information and Information and Communication, Nagoya University. He has been a Professor of Graduate School of Informatics, Nagoya University since 2017. His current research interests include three dimensional image processing, computer graphics, virtual reality and their applications to medical image. Computer aided diagnosis and surgery are his major active research fields. Recently AI-based colonoscope diagnosis system developed in his laboratory has obtained an official certificate as a medical device. He has received many awards from several institutes includes the Young Researcher Award, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, the best paper awards from the Japanese Society of Medical Imaging Technology. He served as the general chair of the 16th international conference of Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI 2013). He was elected as the President of the International Society of Computer Aided Surgery (ISCAS) in 2018. He was the Chair of SPIE Medical Imaging CAD conference in 2018 and 2019. He is a member o Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineering of Japan, Japanese Society of Biomedical Engineering, and Japanese Society of Medical Imaging Technology, MICCAI, IEEE, and SPIE.