Prof. Kenji Tanaka

Prof. Kenji Tanaka leads CUSP AI Research Lab, a dedicated team of 80+ PhD researchers focused on the next frontier of automotive AI. Previously Research Director at Sony AI, Kenji-s groundbreaking work on real-time semantic segmentation won the Best Paper award at CVPR 2019. At CUSP, he directs research in neural perception, end-to-end autonomous driving models, and multi-modal sensor fusion. His team-s work on the Perception Transformer architecture is now integrated into the NavShield 3.0 platform. He holds visiting professorships at Tokyo Institute of Technology and Stanford HAI.