Professor, Center for Digital Green-innovation, Nara Institute of Science and Techonology (NAIST) in Japan
Professor, Division of Information Science, Graduate School of Science and Technology, NAIST
Dr. Hirokazu Kato is a Professor at the Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), Japan. He received the B.E., M.E., and Dr. Eng. degrees from Osaka University, Japan in 1986, 1988, and 1996 respectively. He joined the Department of Control Engineering at Osaka University, from 1989 to 1999. In 1999 He joined the Department of Information Machines and Interfaces at Hiroshima City University, Japan. In 2003 He joined the Department of Systems Engineering at Osaka University. In 2007 He joined the Graduate School of Information Science at Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST) as a professor. In 2021, He moved to the Center for Digital Green-innovation, NAIST in order to start new interdisciplinary research in the collaboration with researchers from different research backgrounds for confronting serious social problems such as SDGs.