Masatoshi Hamanaka received PhD degree from the University of Tsukuba, Japan, in 2003. He is currently a leader of Music Information Intelligence team in Center for Advanced Intelligence Project, RIKEN. His research interest is in music information technology, biomedical and unmanned aircraft systems. He received the Journal of New Music Research Distinguished Paper Award in 2005, SIGGRAPH2019 Emerging Technologies Laval Virtual Revolution Research Jury Prize in 2019, and IJCAI-19 Most Entertaining Video Award in 2019.