PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Takayuki Ito

Also known as 伊藤 孝行

Takayuki Ito is a Kyoto University computer scientist whose research uses multi-agent AI for automated negotiation, consensus building, and collective intelligence. He earned engineering degrees at Nagoya Institute of Technology, served as a research fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, and held faculty posts at Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology and Nagoya Institute of Technology. His systems include COLLAGREE, a facilitator-mediated platform applied to municipal planning in Nagoya City, and D-Agree, an agent-facilitated discussion platform used in a 2024 study on interethnic dialogue in Afghanistan. With David Parkes, he won the 2006 AAMAS Best Paper Award, followed by the IJCAI 2019 Best Video Award for D-Agree and the 2023 Gregory Kersten GDN Journal Best Paper Award. Since October 2020, he is a professor and principal investigator in Kyoto University's Department of Social Informatics, and since October 2023 he is an associate member of the Science Council of Japan.

Now at
Kyoto University and Science Council of Japan
Works
837
Citations
4,894
h-index
31
Badges

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 22 October 2026.

Timeline

  1. 1995–2001

    Degrees and a JSPS fellowship

    He earns B.E., M.E., and Doctor of Engineering degrees from Nagoya Institute of Technology in 1995, 1997, and 2000. From 1999 to 2001, he serves as a research fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, and from 2000 to 2001 he is a visiting researcher at USC/ISI.

  2. 2001–2020

    Professorships in Japan

    From April 2001 to March 2003, he serves as an associate professor at Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. In 2004, he moves to Nagoya Institute of Technology, becomes a full professor in 2014, and remains there through September 2020.

  3. 2005–2006

    Visiting Harvard and AAMAS best paper

    From 2005 to 2006, he is a visiting researcher at Harvard University's Division of Engineering and Applied Science and at the MIT Sloan School of Management's Center for Coordination Science. With David Parkes, he wins the 2006 AAMAS Best Paper Award out of 553 submissions for “Instantiating the Contingent Bids Model of Truthful Interdependent Value Auctions,” a paper on truthful auctions with interdependent values.

  4. 2014–2018

    COLLAGREE for consensus support

    With Yuma Imi, Takanori Ito, and Eizo Hideshima, he presents a poster on COLLAGREE, a facilitator-mediated system for large-scale consensus support, at ACM Collective Intelligence in 2014 at MIT. In 2018, the system is applied to gather citizens' opinions on the interim draft of Nagoya City's next-term comprehensive plan.

  5. 2019

    D-Agree wins at IJCAI

    At the IJCAI 2019 AI Video Competition, he and five teammates—Shota Suzuki, Naoko Yamaguchi, Tomohiro Nishida, Kentaro Hiraishi, and Kai Yoshino—win the Best Video Award for D-Agree, an agent-facilitated system for crowd-scale discussion.

  6. 2023

    Gregory Kersten GDN best paper

    In 2023, he receives the Gregory Kersten GDN Journal Best Paper Award for “An Agent that Facilitates Crowd Discussion: A Crowd Discussion Support System based on an Automated Facilitation Agent.”

  7. 2024

    AI dialogue in Afghanistan

    In 2024, he coauthors a Communications Psychology study using conversational AI on D-Agree for online discussions among 128 Afghans of Pashtun, Tajik, and Hazara backgrounds. Divided into an AI group and a control group, participants in the AI group show more empathy toward other ethnic groups and reduced interethnic prejudice and anxiety.

  8. Since October 2020

    Professor at Kyoto University

    Since October 2020, he is a professor and principal investigator in the Department of Social Informatics at Kyoto University's Graduate School of Informatics, where his research spans multi-agent systems, automated negotiation, consensus building, and collective intelligence. He also serves as an honorary professor at the University of Wollongong from 2022 to 2025 and as an associate member of the Science Council of Japan since October 2023.

Career

  1. Since 2023Science Council of JapanAssociate member
  2. Since 2020Kyoto UniversityProfessor and Principal Investigator
  3. 2022–2025University of WollongongHonorary professor
  4. 2010–2013University of Tokyo
  5. 2005–2006Harvard UniversityVisiting researcher
  6. 2005–2006Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyVisiting researcher
  7. 2004–2020Nagoya Institute of TechnologyFull Professor
  8. 2001–2004Japan Advanced Institute of Science and TechnologyAssociate Professor
  9. 2000–2001University of Southern CaliforniaVisiting researcher

Education

  1. 2000Nagoya Institute of TechnologyDoctor of Engineering
  2. 1997Nagoya Institute of TechnologyM.E.
  3. 1995Nagoya Institute of TechnologyB.E.

From the biography and OpenAlex affiliations (the years of papers that list the organization), so some years are approximate.

  1. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology trained or employed 44 of the 187 AI major-prize winners, more than any other universityIncludes Takayuki Ito. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology trained or employed 44 of the 187 AI major-prize winners, more than any other university. We compare doctorate and 5+ year employment links, career timing and current workplaces for 187 major-prize and 1,111 best-paper winners.
  2. More people shaping AI studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology than at any other institutionIncludes Massachusetts Institute of Technology. We estimate where the people shaping AI studied and where their careers led. Massachusetts Institute of Technology leads with 467 former students, including 291 recorded doctorates.
  3. The company share of AI researchers’ top papers was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974Includes Kyoto University. We estimate where the people shaping AI worked when their most-cited papers appeared: the company share was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974, and Google led all organizations in 2020–2024.
  4. Google had the most people shaping AI every year from 2014 to 2025Includes Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Our estimates of which organizations employed the most people shaping AI each year from 1955 to 2025, tracing the shift from university labs to companies.

Colleagues

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Sources and credits

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  1. Takayuki Ito — Kyoto University takayuki-ito.com. Checked 22 October 2026.
  2. Research Statement 2020 agent.soc.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp. Checked 22 October 2026.
  3. Professor Takayuki Ito, Shota Suzuki, Researcher Naoko Yamaguchi, Project Assistant Professor Tomohiro Nishida, Kentaro Hiraishi and Kai Yoshino received The Best Video Award at IJCAI2019 AI Video Competition.｜Nagoya Institute of Technology nitech.ac.jp. Checked 22 October 2026.
  4. E-contact facilitated by conversational agents reduces interethnic prejudice and anxiety in Afghanistan | Communications Psychology nature.com. Checked 22 October 2026.
  5. Don't matter if you're this or that | KYOTO UNIVERSITY kyoto-u.ac.jp. Checked 22 October 2026.
  6. Takayuki Ito Laboratory — Collective Intelligence | Kyoto University agent.soc.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp. Checked 22 October 2026.
  7. Ito, Takayuki(Graduate School of Informatics, Department of Informatics) | Activity Database on Education and Research, Kyoto University kdb.iimc.kyoto-u.ac.jp. Checked 22 October 2026.