D., Pharmacist. While in graduate school, he founded LIVERNESS with only undergraduate and graduate students in science and engineering. After completing the doctoral process, he worked as an assistant professor and lecturer at the Faculty of Science, Kitasato University, and an assistant professor at the Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, before being appointed and concurrently serving as a specially-appointed associate professor at Keio University in 2015, a professor of advanced pharmacy at the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kumamoto University in 2018, and a visiting professor at Keio University's Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences. While conducting research and development, he is a researcher involved in launching joint research projects with universities and research institutions and supporting the establishment of research institutes. He has also been involved in the establishment of many venture companies and serves as an advisor.

Joined Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. (now Panasonic Corporation) in 1978, and engaged in neurophysiology and AI research as a visiting scientific researcher at the University of Utah Medical Center in the U.S. from 1987 to 1989. In 2016, he was appointed as Director of RDMM Support Center, Kansai Science City Promotion Organization, and in 2021 he will assume his current position. His areas of expertise include intelligent information processing, image and video media processing, and neuro-AI.

D. in Materials Science, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University in March 2003. He joined the Faculty of Chemistry, Materials and Bioengineering, Kansai University in April 2007 as a full time lecturer and associate professor, and became a professor in 2017. He specializes in regenerative medical engineering and biomaterials, and is engaged in research on bone formation and artificial joints, as well as the development of technology to promote coral reef regeneration, utilizing the knowledge and technology he has acquired in this field.

He received his degree in fusion energy research at Kyoto University. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Ritsumeikan University and the University of Tokyo, and joined the Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University as an Assistant Professor in August 2014. With his knowledge of thermal control technology cultivated through his nuclear fusion research, he established Osaka Heat Cool Co. in 2020. He aims to create new value, such as improving immersion in virtual spaces, by developing an interface that reproduces temperature, one of the five human senses, which has not yet been reproduced in the sense of touch.

D., Department of Precision Machinery Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo. He learned the fascination of co-creation in different fields through the joint development of an antibody sensor as an undergraduate and the world's first motorized powder press as a graduate student. After working as a RIKEN Basic Science Research Fellow, he joined the Basic Technology Research Center of Honda R&D Co. He joined Yanmar in 2016 and assumed his current position in April 2021.