Toshihisa Tanaka received the B.E., M.E., and Ph.D. degrees from the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1997, 2000, and 2002, respectively. From 2000 to 2002, he was a JSPS Research Fellow. From October 2002 to March 2004, he was a Research Scientist at RIKEN Brain Science Institute. In April 2004, he joined the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (TUAT), where he is currently a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. In April 2025, he was appointed Vice-Trustee and an Assistant to the President of TUAT. Moreover, he heads the Research Division of Informatics for Human-Animal Interaction at the One Welfare Research Institute of TUAT. In 2005, he was a Royal Society visiting fellow at the Communications and Signal Processing Group, Imperial College London, U.K. From June 2011 to October 2011, he was a visiting faculty member in the Department of Electrical Engineering, the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
His research interests include a broad area of signal processing and machine learning, including brain and biomedical signal processing, brain-machine interfaces, and human-animal interaction. He is a co-editor of Signal Processing Techniques for Knowledge Extraction and Information Fusion (with Mandic, Springer), 2008, and a leading co-editor of Signal Processing and Machine Learning for Brain-Machine Interfaces (with Arvaneh, IET, U.K.), 2018.
He served as an associate editor and a guest editor of special issues in journals, including IEEE Access, Neurocomputing, IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals, Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience (Hindawi), IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, Applied Sciences (MDPI), Advances in Data Science and Adaptive Analysis (World Scientific), and Neural Networks (Elsevier). He served as editor-in-chief of Signals (MDPI). He was a General Co-Chair of the Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC) Tokyo in 2021. Furthermore, he is Vice President of the Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA). He is a General Chair of the 2028 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2028), Tokyo, Japan. He is a senior member of the IEEE and a member of IEICE, APSIPA, the Society for Neuroscience, and the Japan Epilepsy Society. He is the co-founder and CTO of Sigron, Inc.
Ph.D. in Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2002.
Committee: Yukihiko Yamashita (chair), Akinori Nishihara, Isao Yamada, Toshiyuki Yoshida, Jun-ichi Takada
Thesis title: Lapped Transforms and Their Applications in Image Processing
M.S. Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2000.
Exchange student in Electronic Engineering, Korea University, Republic of Korea, Sept. 19972 – Aug. 1998. (Host Adviser: Sung-Jea Ko)
B.S. Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 1997.
Professor, October 2018-Present
Associate Professor, April 2006–September 2018
Senior Lecturer (Koushi), April 2004–March 2006
Visiting Scholar, 2011
Visiting Research Scientist, April 2004–present
Research Scientist, October 2002–March 2004
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow, April 2002–September 2002 JSPS Research Fellow, April 2000–March 2002