Our People
We bring together brilliant minds who see beyond the current AI paradigm, building the foundation for a world where humans and artificial life forms co-evolve.
Directors
Mizuki Oka
Founder & Director
Tokyo, Japan
Ken Suzuki
Founder & Director
Tokyo, Japan
Banjo Yamauchi
Director
Kyoto, Japan
Founders
Mizuki Oka
Founder & Director
Tokyo, Japan
Ken Suzuki
Founder & Director
Tokyo, Japan
Takashi Ikegami
Founder & Advisor
Tokyo, Japan
Tadahiro Taniguchi
Founder & PI
Kyoto, Japan
Olaf Witkowski
Founder & Advisor
Kyoto, Japan
Kenneth Stanley
Founder & Advisor
United States
Research Projects
Symbiotic Alignment
Exploring human-AI coexistence through collective intelligence and symbiotic alignment mechanisms.
Tadahiro Taniguchi
Founder & PI
Kyoto, Japan
Yusuke Hayashi
Researcher
Tokyo, Japan
Momoha Hirose
Researcher
Kyoto, Japan
Audrey Tang
Advisor
Taiwan
Ken Suzuki
Founder & Director
Tokyo, Japan
Open Endedness
Researching unbounded evolutionary systems that continuously generate novelty and complexity.
Bert Chan
Researcher
Japan
Mark Tensen
Researcher
Sweden
Ciaran Regan
Researcher
Japan
Grisha Szep
Researcher
Japan
Supporters
Banjo Yamauchi
Director
Kyoto, Japan
Kunihiro Tanaka
President, CEO of SAKURA internet Inc.
Japan
Katsuya Uenoyama
CEO & Founder of PKSHA Technology
Japan
Kojin Oshiba
Co-Founder of Robust Intelligence (acquired by Cisco)
United States
Tom Mcinerney
Founder & Angel Investor, TGM Ventures
United States
Eric Glen Weyl
Founder & Chair of Plurality Institute, Research Lead at Microsoft Research
United States
Llion Jones
CTO/Co-Founder of Sakana AI
Tokyo, Japan
Yuya Ishikawa
Gaudiy Representative Director, CEO & Founder
Japan
Ryota Kanai
Founder & CEO of Araya, Project Manager of Moonshot R&D Program
Japan
Masaki Nakada
Founder & CEO of NeuralX Inc.
United States