高木 啓伸

Dr. Takagi is the senior manager of the Accessibility & Aging research team at IBM Research – Tokyo. He joined IBM Research in 1999 and received his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Tokyo in 2000. He has been investigating Web-accessibility, crowd-sourcing, elderly-care and real-world accessibility technologies. He currently leads the Aging Research initiatives at global IBM Research and healthcare research initiative at IBM Research - Tokyo. He is also leading collaboration with University of California San Diego for healthy aging and Carnegie Mellon University for real-world accessibility research. He received best paper awards at ACM ASSETS 2002 and 2009 and received an achievement award from the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in 2011. He is a member of the IBM Academy of Technology and ACM.