Prof. Hironori Washizaki received his doctoral degree from the School of Computer Science and Engineering, Waseda University, in 2003. He is now a professor and the Associate Dean of the Research Promotion Division at Waseda University in Tokyo and a visiting professor at the National Institute of Informatics. He also works in industry as the Outside Director of SYSTEM INFORMATION and eXmotion. Since 2017, he has been the lead on a large-scale grant at MEXT called enPiT-Pro SmartSE, which encompasses IoT, AI, software engineering, and business.