TEAM
Our Team
Core Members

Koichi Takahashi
Chair
Project professor at Keio University Graduate School of Media and Governance. Principal Investigator at RIKEN. Vice-chair at the Whole Brain Architecture Initiative. Expert Committee Member, SIG-AGI, Japanese Society of Artificial Intelligence.

Ryota Kanai
Co-founder
An award-winning cognitive neuroscientist, founder of Araya Inc. and currently working on practical brain-machine interface applications as a project manager of the Moonshot Program of the Cabinet Office.

Hiroshi Yamakawa
Director
Deputy Director of the AGI Research Center at Chiba Institute of Technology, chairperson of The Whole Brain Architecture Initiative, a non-profit organization, and a principal researcher at the Graduate School of Engineering of The University of Tokyo. He is a former Chief Editor of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence.

Ippei Fujisawa
Director
AI researcher at Araya Inc.

Yusuke Hayashi
Director
Researcher at ALife Institute, Chief Research Officer at Humanity Brain.

Kazuki Kimura
Community Lead
A former International Coordinator at the Japan AI Safety Institute, currently serving as a Research Lead at Citadel AI while leading AI safety field-building and talent pipeline development in Japan.
Research Fellows

Ryota Takatsuki
Research Fellow
A Master’s student at the University of Tokyo and a research intern at Araya Inc.

Masayuki Nagai
Research Fellow
A PhD student at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York, USA, working to elucidate the mechanisms of gene regulation with deep learning models.

Shosuke Nishimoto
Research Fellow
A PhD student at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the University of Tokyo, researching consciousness with a particular focus on time by integrating ideas from cognitive psychology, neuroscience, information science and philosophy.
External Advisors

Dan Hendrycks
External Advisor
Founder and current director of the Center for AI Safety (CAIS).
Tomohiro Inoue
Economics Advisor
Economist and associate professor at the Faculty of Economics, Komazawa University. He co-founded the AI and Society study group with Koichi Takahashi in 2015.
