Hiroaki Kitano

Dr. Hiroaki Kitano is President and CEO of Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc. (Sony CSL). Kitano joined Sony CSL as a researcher in 1993 and has served as President and CEO since 2011. He served as Chief Technology Officer of Sony Group Corporation from 2022 to 2024 and has been Chief Technology Fellow since 2025. As a researcher at Carnegie Mellon University, Kitano built large-scale data-driven AI systems on massively parallel computers, for which he received the Computers and Thought Award from IJCAI. At Sony CSL and California Institute of Technology, he pioneered the field of systems biology. Outside Sony, Kitano is a member of the OECD Expert Group on AI Futures, Japan’s AI Strategy Council and AI Safety Institute. Within academia, he serves as a professor at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST). He is the Founding President of RoboCup Federation. In 2021, Kitano established the Nobel Turing Challenge, a grand challenge to develop a new engine for scientific discovery.

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