Hiroaki Kitano

Hiroaki Kitano
Hiroaki Kitano
	Kitano in 2021
Born	1961 (age 63–64)
Alma mater	International Christian University; Kyoto University;
Known for	AIBO; Robocup;
Awards	IJCAI Computers and Thought Award (1993)
	Scientific career
Fields	Systems Biology
Institutions	Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc.; Carnegie Mellon University; Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST); RIKEN; The Systems Biology Institute (SBI);
Thesis	Speech-to-speech translation: a massively parallel memory-based approach (1991)
Website	www.sbi.jp/about-us/members

Hiroaki Kitano (北野宏明; born 1961 in Tokyo) is a Japanese scientist. He is the head of the Systems Biology Institute (SBI); Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Sony Group Corporation, Chief Executive Officer of Sony Research Inc. and Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc.; a Group Director of the Laboratory for Disease Systems Modeling at and RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences; and a professor at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST). Kitano is known for developing AIBO, and the robotic world cup tournament known as Robocup.