Jun Kato

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About Jun Kato

Dr. Jun Kato is a senior researcher at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) and the technical advisor at Arch, Inc, where he leads Arch Research. He has researched Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), particularly creativity support, and worked on technology transfer, developing and managing public web services. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Science, The University of Tokyo, in 2014, after working as a research fellow at the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Microsoft Research Asia, and as a research intern at Microsoft Research Redmond and Adobe Creative Technologies Lab. He joined AIST as a researcher in 2014 and has been in his current position since 2018. He spent a year at Université Paris-Saclay from March 2024 as a visiting scientist. He has received 29 awards, including IPSJ/ACM Award for Early Career Contributions to Global Research and the Honorable Mention Award at ACM CHI 2013, 2015, and 2023. Following his research on extending the user interfaces of programming environments to benefit creators with diverse technical backgrounds, he founded SIGPX, a domestic study group on "Programming Experience (PX)" at the intersection of HCI, programming language, and software engineering research. He has served as a committee member for more than 40 international conferences, primarily in the fields of HCI (ACM CHI, UIST) and PX VL/HCC, LIVE, PX). More information is available at his portfolio website: https://junkato.jp