Yutaka Matsuo

Graduated from the Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, The University of Tokyo in 1997, and completed his Ph.D. at the university's graduate school in 2002 (Doctor of Engineering). After serving as a researcher at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) and a visiting researcher at Stanford University, he became an associate professor at the University of Tokyo's Graduate School of Engineering in 2007, and a professor in 2019. His areas of specialization are artificial intelligence, deep learning, and web mining. He has received the Best Paper Award (2002), the 20th Anniversary Achievement Award (2006), the Field Innovation Award (2011), and the Distinguished Service Award (2013) from the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence. He served as a director of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence and the Information Processing Society of Japan from 2020 to 2022. He has served as Chairman of the Japan Deep Learning Association (JDLA) since 2017, as an outside director of SoftBank Group since 2019, as an expert member of the Council of New Form of Capitalism Realization since 2021, and as Chair of the AI Strategy Council since 2023.