TEAM

Our Team

Core Members

  • Koichi Takahashi

    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

    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

    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

    Ippei Fujisawa

    Director

    AI researcher at Araya Inc.

  • Yusuke Hayashi

    Yusuke Hayashi

    Director

    Researcher at ALife Institute, Chief Research Officer at Humanity Brain.

  • Kazuki Kimura

    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

    Ryota Takatsuki

    Research Fellow

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

  • Masayuki Nagai

    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

    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

    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.