Yoshihiro Kawahara

mercari R4D Head of Research

Dr. Kawahara currently serves as Professor at School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo. Dr. Kawahara completed his doctoral thesis at the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo in 2005, earning him a Ph.D. in Information Science and Technology.
After occupying the positions of assistant, adjunct professor, lecturer, and associate professor of the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo, he was appointed Professor of School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo in 2019. He also served as Project Director of the JST ERATO Kawahara Universal Information Network Project from 2015 to 2022. He became Director of the Research Institute for an Inclusive Society through Engineering (RIISE) in 2019. He has also served as a member of Mercari R4D’s Advisory Board since 2019.