Hiroaki Kitano
Chief Technology Fellow - Sony Group Corporation
Hiroaki Kitano is Chief Technology Fellow at Sony Group Corporation. Kitano served as Chief Technology Officer and Senior Executive Vice President of the company from April 2022 to March 2024 and as Chief Technology Officer and Executive Deputy President of the company from April 2024 to March 2025. He joined Sony Computer Science Laboratories (Sony CSL) in 1993, serving as President and CEO of the company since 2011.
As a researcher at Carnegie Mellon University, Kitano built large-scale data-driven AI systems on massively parallel computers, for which he received the Computers and Thought Award from IJCAI. At Sony CSL and California Institute of Technology, he pioneered the field of systems biology.
Outside Sony, Kitano is a member of the OECD Expert Group on AI Futures, Japan’s AI Strategy Council and AI Safety Institute. Within academia, he serves as a visiting professor at OIST and leads the Turing AI scientist Grand Challenge at Alan Turing Institute. Kitano was elected as a fellow of the AAAI in 2021. He is the Founding President of RoboCup Federation.
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