Tetsunari Inamura

Tetsunari Inamura received the B.E., M.E., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Tokyo, Japan, in 1995, 1997, and 2000, respectively in the realization of a human-robot interaction system for personal robots.

He was a Researcher of the CREST Program, Japanese Science and Technology Cooperation, from 2000 to 2003, and then joined the Department of Mechano-Informatics, School of Information Science and Technology, University of Tokyo, as a Lecturer, from 2003 to 2006. He was an Associate Professor with the Principles of Informatics Research Division,National Institute of Informatics, and an Associate Professor with the Department of Informatics, School of
Multidisciplinary Sciences, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI, Japan, from 2006 to 2023. He is
a professor at Advanced Intelligence & Robotics Research Center, Brain Science Institute, Tamagawa University, Japan.

His research interests are learning from human demonstration, symbol emergence on social robots, quality evaluation of human-robot interaction, human-robot interaction using virtual reality, affective computing for assistive robots, etc.