Keynote Speakers

Prof. Tetsuya Ogata
Waseda University, Japan

 

Biography: Tetsuya Ogata received the B.S., M.S., and D.E. degrees in mechanical engineering from Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, in 1993, 1995, and 2000, respectively. He was a Research Associate with Waseda University from 1999 to 2001. From 2001 to 2003, he was a Research Scientist with the RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Saitama, Japan. From 2003 to 2012, he was an Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan. Since 2012, he has been a Professor with the Faculty of Science and Engineering at Waseda University. From 2009 to 2015, he was a JST (Japan Science and Technology Agency) PREST Researcher. Since 2017, he has been a Joint-appointed Fellow with the Artificial Intelligence Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tokyo, and a visiting professor with the Research and Development Center for Large Language Models, National Institute of Informatics (NII). He served as director of the Robotics Society of Japan (RSJ) from 2014 to 2015 and the Japanese Society of Artificial Intelligence (JSAI) from 2016 to 2018. He has been the director of the Institute of AI and Robotics at Waseda University since 2020, the chairperson of the AI Robot Association (AIRoA), and the Research supervisor of JST CREST “Fundamentals and Core Technologies for Embodied AI” since 2025. His current research interests include cognitive developmental robotics, the VLA (Vision Language Action) model, and human–robot interaction. IEEE Fellow since 2026.