Nao Tokui
Founder CEO at Neutone
Chiyoda, Japan
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Top SchoolNao Tokui is an artist-technologist and founder-CEO who has spent 14+ years at the intersection of AI, music, and human-computer interaction. He holds a PhD in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the University of Tokyo and has led research and creative labs—founding Qosmo in 2009 and most recently Neutone—to develop AI tools for audio creators. His work has been exhibited at MoMA and the Barbican and performed at festivals like MUTEK and Sónar, demonstrating a rare blend of academic rigor and stage-ready creative practice. As an academic he has held professorial roles at Keio University, translating research into practical tools and public-facing art. He combines deep technical research with entrepreneurial leadership, building products and performances that make generative audio technologies tangible. Colleagues note his ability to move fluidly between code, scholarship, and live performance, often revealing novel artistic uses of AI that aren’t obvious from papers alone.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Electrical and Electronics Engineering at 東京大学 / The University of Tokyo
English, Japanese
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Github Skills (80)
python10
ui-components10
gradio-interface10
dance10
variational-autoencoder10
autoencoder10
midi10
audio10
data-visualization10
music10
machine-learning10
deep-learning9
gradio9
music-generation9
pytorch9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
naotokui/CreativeGAN-Rhythm
Jul 2019 - Feb 2021
Creative Adversarial Network for generating Dance Music Rhythm Patterns
Contributions:79 commits, 51 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 7 months
pytorchmusic-generationdeep-learningadversarialdance
naotokui/SpectrogramVAE
Nov 2018 - Dec 2020
TensorFlow implementation of a VAE for encoding spectrograms
Contributions:12 commits, 12 pushes in 2 years
vaespectrogramstensorflowencoding
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