Sadao Kurohashi received a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Kyoto University in 1994. He is currently the Director-General of the National Institute of Informatics, Japan, and a specially appointed professor at the Graduate School of Informatics at Kyoto University.
His research interests include natural language processing, knowledge infrastructure, and open science. He received the 10th and 20th anniversary best paper awards from Journal of Natural Language Processing in 2004 and 2014, respectively, 2009 IBM faculty award, and the 2010 NTT DOCOMO mobile science award, and the 2017 Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education.