Summary
Toshihisa Tanaka is a professor and Vice Dean of Engineering at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, specializing in signal processing and machine learning with strong applications in neuroengineering and human–animal–computer interaction. He leads a large research lab of about thirty members, supervises 14 PhD students, and co-founded Sigron Inc. where he serves as CTO, bridging academic research and commercial innovation. With a PhD from Tokyo Institute of Technology and prior roles at RIKEN and as a JSPS fellow, he has held sustained editorial leadership in major journals and serves as Senior Area Editor for IEEE Signal Processing Letters. He has cultivated international partnerships with institutions such as the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa and Università Politecnica delle Marche, and will chair IEEE ICASSP 2028 in Tokyo, reflecting his regional leadership in signal and information processing. Multilingual in Japanese, English, Korean, and Mandarin (HSK5), he brings uncommon cross-cultural capacity to foster global collaboration and translate complex neuroscientific signal methods into practical technologies.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Image and Signal Processing, PhD, Image and Signal Processing at Tokyo Institute of Technology
Exchange Programme, Electronics Engineering, Exchange Programme, Electronics Engineering at Korea University
Suwa Seiryo High School
Suwa Junior High School
Japanese, English, Korean, Chinese