Sadao Kurohashi

Director General, NII; LLM-jp founderNII

PhD in Electrical Engineering from Kyoto University (1994). Long-tenured professor at Kyoto University’s Graduate School of Informatics, specializing in NLP and knowledge infrastructure. Director-General of NII. In April 2024, established NII’s LLM Research Center (LLMC) — the institutional home of the LLM-jp project, Japan’s flagship open-source LLM initiative. IBM Faculty Award (2009).

Affiliations

  • NII — Director General, NII; LLM-jp founder
    Formerly: Kyoto University (Professor); ACL Fellow 2025