Yuki Mitsufuji is a Lead Research Scientist and VP of AI Research at Sony, leading two departments (Creative AI Lab, Music Foundation Model Team), and he is a specially appointed associate professor at TokyoTech, where he lectures on generative models. He’s achieved Senior Member status in IEEE and serves on the IEEE AASP Technical Committee 2023--2026. He chaired multiple workshops on generative models for audio at ICASSP, NeurIPS, and ECCV