Supervisor
Mitsuo Kawato
Director/ATR Fellow
ATR Brain Information Communication Research Laboratories Group
ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories
Date of Birth
November 12, 1953
Education
1976 B.S. degree in physics from Tokyo University
1978 M.E. degree in biophysical engineering from Osaka University
1981 Ph. D. degree in biophysical engineering from Osaka University
Professional Positions
1981 Faculty member of Osaka University
1987 Lecturer of Biophysical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering Science,
Osaka University
1986-1987
Jointly appointed as a senior science advisor of Ministry of Education,
Culture and Science of Japan
1988 Senior researcher of Cognitive Processes Department, ATR Auditory and Visual Perception Research Laboratories
1989 Supervisor of Cognitive Processes Department, ATR Auditory and Visual Perception Research Laboratories
1992 Head of Department 3, ATR Human Information Processing Research Laboratories
1992-1995
Jointly appointed as a Visiting Professor of Laboratory for Parallel Distributed Processing,
Institute for Electronic Sciences of Hokkaido University
1993 Jointly appointed as a Professore a Contratto di Robotica of University Genova
1994 Jointly appointed as a Visiting Professor of Kanazawa Institute of Technology
1996-2001
Jointly appointed as a Project Director of Kawato Dynamic Brain Project, ERATO, JST
2000 Jointly appointed as a Visiting Professor of Nara Institute of Science and Technology
2002 Jointly appointed as a Visiting Professor of Osaka University
2003 Director, ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories
2004-2009
Jointly appointed as a Research Supervisor of Computational Brain Project, ICORP, JST
2004 ATR Fellow, Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International
2004 Jointly appointed as a Visiting Professor of National Institute for Physiological Sciences
2006 Jointly appointed as a specially appointed visiting professor of Toyama Prefectural University
2007 Jointly appointed as a Visiting Professor of Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine
2008 Jointly appointed as a Research supervisor of PRESTO, JST
Jointly appointed as a Visiting Professor of National Institute of Informatics
2009 Jointly appointed as a Visiting Professor of Creative Informatics, Graduate School of Information Science and
Technology, The University of Tokyo
2010 Director, ATR Brain Information Communication Research Laboratory Groupbr
Jointly appointed as a Visiting Professor, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University
2011 Jointly appointed as a Visiting Professor of Precision and Intelligence Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Jointly appointed as a Visiting Professor of Brain Science Institute, Tamagawa University
Committee
Governing board member of Japan Neuroscience Society
Foreign member of North America Society for Neuroscience
IEICE (The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers) Fellow
Governing board member of Science Council of Japan
President of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Japan Neuroscience Society
Director of TOYOBO Biofoundation
Awards
1986 Toyama award of The Toyama Foundation
1988 Grant-in-aid award of Brain Science Foundation
1991 Excellent paper award and Yonezawa founder's medal memorial special award of
The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers
1992 Sawaragi memorial paper award of Society of Instrument and Control Engineers
Outstanding Research Award of the International Neural Network Society
1993 Persons of scientific and technological research merits of commendation
by the Ministry of state for Science and Technology
Paper award and research award of Japan Neural Networks Society
Osaka Science Prize
1994 Paper award and research award of Japan Neural Networks Society
1996 10th Tsukahara Naka-akira Memorial Award
1997 Paper award of Japan Neural Networks Society
Okawa Publications Prize
1998 Tomoda paper award of the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers
2001 Tokizane Toshihiko memorial award
Visual Science Festa Superior award
2004 IEICE (The Intstitute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers) Fellow
2005 Chunichi Cultural Award
Shida Rinzaburo Award
2006 The Asahi Prize
2007 Paper award of Japanese Neural Networks Society
APNNA Outstanding Achievement Award
2008 INNS Gabor Award
Funai Achievement Award
2009 Info-Communications Promotion Month Ministerial Commendations At 2009
The OKAWA Prize
2012 2nd Tateisi Prize, Grand Award
2012 INNS (International Neural Network Society) College of Fellows