Professor at RCAST of the University of Tokyo
Masahiko Inami is Professor of Information and Somatics at the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST) of the University of Tokyo. He organized and directed the JIZAI Body project in ERATO that is funded by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST). Dr. Inami was appointed as professor at the Department of Information Physics and Computing, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology of the University of Tokyo in 2015, after working at the University of Electro-Communications and Keio University 2008-2015. Dr. Inami took up his current position as professor at the RCAST of the University of Tokyo in 2016. 

His interests include  body editing technology called "JIZAI", the Augmented Human, and entertainment engineering. He has received several awards, including TIME Magazine’s “Coolest Invention of the Year” award and the Young Scientist Award from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (MEXT). 

He is also the co-representative of the Superhuman Sports Society, a director of the Information Processing Society of Japan, a director of the Virtual Reality Society of Japan, and a member of the Science Council of Japan. His latest book is called “Theory of JIZAI Body" (Springer, 2024).

He is concurrently teaching as Professor at Ochanomizu University since 2023 and has been Guest Professor at the Graduate School of Media Design of Keio University since 2015. 

He is a senior associate member of the ROLES project in Research Group on Advanced Science/Technology and Security."