Kenichiro Ishii

<p class="MsoNormal"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">Kenichiro Ishii </span></strong><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Gothic'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">worked at NTT until 2003, after which he served as a professor at Nagoya University until 2012. He is currently a Professor Emeritus at Nagoya University.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Yu Mincho'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-fareast-language: JA;">Naonori Ueda</span></strong><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Yu Mincho'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-fareast-language: JA;"> worked at NTT until 2023. Since then, he has been serving as an NTT Research Professor. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;</span>He has also been concurrently working at RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project (AIP) as Deputy Director since 2016, and in 2023, he transitioned to a full-time position at RIKEN AIP.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">Eisaku Maeda</span></strong><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">&nbsp;was with NTT&nbsp;until 2017 and has since been serving as a <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">professor</span> at <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Tokyo Denki University</span>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Yu Mincho'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-fareast-language: JA;">Hiroshi Murase</span></strong><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Yu Mincho'; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-fareast-language: JA;"> worked at NTT until 2003, after which he served as a professor at Nagoya University until 2021. He is currently a Professor Emeritus at the same university.</span></p>