Hidenori Tanaka

Hidenori Tanaka (田中 秀宣) leads the Physics of Intelligence Group, affiliated with the CBS-NTT Program in Physics of Intelligence at Harvard University and the Physics of AI Group at NTT Research, Inc., a unique industry-academia collaboration pursuing fundamental research at the co-evolving frontier of humanity and AI. A central motivation is simple: if we take the rapid, accelerating advance of AI seriously, education, mental health, and alignment must be grounded in a deep understanding of both AI and humanity.

He grew up in Tokyo, studied physics at Kyoto, and completed his PhD in theoretical biophysics at Harvard with David Nelson and Michael Brenner. He was then a Masason Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford with Surya Ganguli and Daniel Fisher.