Hiroshi Ishiguro received a D.Eng.in systems engineering from Osaka University, Japan in 1991. He is currently a professor at the Department of Systems Innovation in the Graduate School of Engineering Science at Osaka University (2009–) and a Distinguished Professor of Osaka University (2017–). He is also visiting director (2014–) and group leader (2002–2013) of Hiroshi Ishiguro Laboratories at the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute and an ATR fellow. His research interests include sensor networks, interactive robotics, and android science. In 2015, he received the Prize for Science and Technology (Research Category) from the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)