Members

Staffs

Intelligent Robotics Laboratory, 

Dept. of Systems Innovation, Graduate School of Engineer Science

domain: irl.sys.es.osaka-u.ac.jp
Professor (Distinguished Professor)

Hiroshi Ishiguro

ishiguro@
Android

Geminoid-F

Associate Professor(Scheduled to be transferred in April 2025)

Yuichiro Yoshikawa

yoshikawa@
Assistant Professor
uchida.takahisa@
Specially Appointed Professor

Naoki Saiwaki

saiwaki

Specially Appointed Associate Professor

Hideyuki Takahashi

takahashi[@]irl.sys.es.osaka-u.ac.jp
Specially Appointed Associate Professor

Midori Ban

ban@
Specially Appointed Assistant Professor

Kazuki Sakai

sakai.kazuki@
Specially Appointed Assistant Professor

Eiki Tachibana

tachibana@
Specially Appointed Assistant Professor

Megumi Kawata

kawata@ 
Specially Appointed Assistant Professor

Masaya Iwasaki

iwasaki@ 
Specially Appointed Assistant Professor

Tatsuya Tachibana

tachibana.tatsuya@ 
Specially Appointed Assistant Professor

Alexis Meneses Carnero 

alexis.meneses@

Graduate School of Engineering Science 

Frontier Intelligent System Research Laboratory (CyberAgent, Inc.)

domain: irl.sys.es.osaka-u.ac.jp
Visiting Professor
kuramoto@
Specially appointed lecturer
nakanishi@
Visiting Fellow
baba@
Visiting Fellow
iwamoto.takuya@
Visiting Fellow
song@

 Open and Transdisciplinary Research Initiatives

domain: irl.sys.es.osaka-u.ac.jp

Symbiotic Intelligent Systems Research Center Visiting Researcher

Specially Appointed Professor
nishio@botransfer.org 
Specially Appointed Assistant Professor

Takashi Hirano

hirano@

Dept. of Adaptive Machine Systems, 

Graduate School of Engineering (Collaborating Division)

domain: irl.sys.es.osaka-u.ac.jp
Professor (Distinguished Professor)

Hiroshi Ishiguro

ishiguro@

Invited Professor

AIST (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology) 
yoshio.matsumoto@aist.go.jp 
RIKENInformation R&D and Strategy Headquarters (R-IH)Behavior Learning Research TeamTeam leader
yutaka.nakamura@riken.jp
RIKEN Information R&D and Strategy Headquarters (R-IH)(and Hiroshi Ishiguro Laboratory)Guardian Robot ProjectSenior Scientist (Visiting group leader)
carlos@
Agent Interaction Design(ID)Group Leader
m-shiomi@
RIKENInformation Integration Headquarters Guardian Robot Project

Takashi Minato

takashi.minato

[@]riken.jp

Invited Associate Professor

Designated Associate ProfessorNagoya University Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Masashi Kasaki

kasaki[＠]ias.nagoya-u.ac.jp
Associate professorNagoya University Electrical Engineering, Electronics, and Information Engineering, School of Engineering

Kohei Ogawa

k.ogawa[@]gmail.com
Invited Associate ProfessorResearch Institute for Time Studies

Tora Koyama

koyama[＠]yamaguchi-u.ac.jp 
Osaka International Polytechnic University, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Information EngineeringAssociate ProfessorATR Deep Interaction Research Institute Interaction Technology BankVisiting researcher

Satoshi Koizumi

satoshi

[@]atr.jp

Associate Professor
Doshisha University Faculty of Culture and Information Science

Takamasa Iio

iio

[＠]irl.sys.es.osaka-u.ac.jp

Invited Associate ProfessorGraduate School of Informatics and EngineeringThe University of Electro-Communications
ynakata[@]uec.ac.jp
Associate Professor, Future Society Creation Organization, Nagoya University

Hiroko Kamide

kamide[@]coi.nagoya-u.ac.jp

Invited Researcher

domain: irl.sys.es.osaka-u.ac.jp
Specially Appointed Assistant Professor 

Fuki Ueno

ueno@
Specially Appointed Assistant Professor 
horibe@
Specially Appointed Assistant Professor 

Wu Bowen 

wu.bowen@
Specially Appointed Assistant Professor 

Taiken Shintani

shintani.taiken@

ATR Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories

domain:atr.jp
Director

Takahiro Miyashita

miyasita@

ATR Hiroshi Ishiguro Laboratories

domain:atr.jp
Group Leader

Hidenobu Sumioka

sumioka@

Visiting Faculty Member

Specially Appointed Assistant ProfessorInstitute for Transdisciplinary Graduate Degree Programs 

Mahzoon Hamed

hamed.mahzoon＠
Assistant ProfessorDepartment of Information and Communication Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University 
Assistant Professor Department of Sociology, New York University

Nahoko Kameo 

Lecturer Northeastern UniversitySydney Smart Technology College
changzeng.fu@
LecturerTokyo University of ScienceDepartment of Information and Computer Technology

Yuya Okadome

okadome[＠]rs.tus.ac.jp

Administration

domain: irl.sys.es.osaka-u.ac.jp

Momo Oshima

oshima.momo@

Mayumi Tanabe

tanabe@

Toyoko Tsuru

tsuru@

Haruka Tsuda

tsuda@

Technical assistant 

domain: irl.sys.es.osaka-u.ac.jp

Shinobu Kawasaki 

kawasaki@

Internal collaborator

TeleRoboVision

Hideyuki Nakanishi

nakanishi@
High-performanceactuator for robot
k-hirata@
Cognitive Developmental Robotics 
asada@
Developmentof skin sensor

Tokyo University of the Arts, Art Innovation Center

domain:pc.geidai.ac.jp 
Project Professor

Oriza Hirata

Project Lecturer

Takenobu Chikaraishi

chikaraishi.takenobu