# Ryota Kanai

> Ryota Kanai is a neuroscientist, Founder and CEO of Araya, Inc., and Project Manager of Japan's Moonshot R&D Program, working on consciousness science, artificial intelligence, brain-machine interfaces, and neurotechnology ethics.

Official CV: https://kanair-gif.github.io/cv/
Downloadable CV PDF: https://kanair-gif.github.io/cv/Ryota_Kanai_CV.pdf
Machine-readable profile JSON: https://kanair-gif.github.io/cv/profile.json

## Research Themes
- Consciousness science
- Artificial intelligence
- Neuroscience
- Brain-machine interfaces
- Neurotechnology ethics
- Computational neuroscience
- Visual perception
- Active inference
- Scientific entrepreneurship

## Public Bios
- One-sentence bio: Ryota Kanai is a neuroscientist and scientific entrepreneur connecting consciousness science, artificial intelligence, brain-machine interfaces, and neurotechnology ethics.
- Short bio: Ryota Kanai, Ph.D., is Founder and CEO of Araya, Inc. and Project Manager of Japan's Moonshot R&D Program. His work connects neuroscience and artificial intelligence to understand consciousness in brains and machines, and to develop next-generation AI-assisted brain-machine interfaces.
- Speaker introduction: Ryota Kanai is Founder and CEO of Araya, Inc., Project Manager of Japan's Moonshot R&D Program, and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness. Trained at Kyoto University, Utrecht University, Caltech, UCL, and the University of Sussex, he works across consciousness science, AI, neurotechnology, and the ethics of brain-machine interfaces.

## Key Profiles
- Official CV site: https://kanair-gif.github.io/cv/
- GitHub: https://github.com/kanair-gif
- Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=zaAL6YEAAAAJ&hl=en
- Researchmap: https://researchmap.jp/7000018601
- ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0186-2687
- OpenAlex: https://openalex.org/A5049957600
- ScienceDirect / Scopus author page: https://www.sciencedirect.com/author/35570064300/ryota-kanai
- DBLP: https://dblp.org/pid/60/8699.html
- arXiv search: https://arxiv.org/search/?query=ryota+kanai&searchtype=all&source=header
- ARAYA Research profile: https://research.araya.org/member/ryota-kanai-phd
- ARAYA Research publications: https://research.araya.org/publications
- Moonshot Goal 1 project: https://www.jst.go.jp/moonshot/en/program/goal1/12_kanai.html
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryota-kanai-3585979/
- X / Twitter (English): https://x.com/kanair
- X / Twitter (Japanese): https://x.com/kanair_jp
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11646396
- KAKEN / e-Rad researcher number 80607177: https://nrid.nii.ac.jp/en/nrid/1000080607177/
- J-GLOBAL: https://jglobal.jst.go.jp/en/detail?JGLOBAL_ID=201601006318166945

## Recent Publications
- 2026: A Control-Theoretic Formulation of Global Workspace Theory (https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2608.15926)
- 2026: Large-Scale Data Practicalizes EEG-Based Speech Decoding (https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-25828-1_13)
- 2026: The Stream of Computation: Temporal Continuity as a Missing Ingredient for Artificial Consciousness (https://doi.org/10.53765/20512201.33.7.035)
- 2026: Active inference for action-unaware agents (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2026.134399)
- 2026: Intrinsic Computational Functionalism and Simulated Consciousness (https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2606.15348)
- 2026: Intrinsic Computational Functionalism: From Observer-Relative Maps to Observer-Independent Structures (https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2606.06424)
- 2026: What are the Indecomposable Phenomenal Units of Qualia Structures? (https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/nbxdk_v1)
- 2026: Canonical Functionalism: Defining Functional Structure without Observer-Relative Semantic Maps (https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2605.21506)
- 2026: Multi-modal Ensemble Approach for Decoding Player Intentions in Table Tennis (https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.05.04.721564)
- 2026: A Japan-origin motivational framework for diversive and specific curiosity: development of the English version of the Japanese Epistemic Curiosity scale (https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1762069)
- 2025: Prior preferences in active inference agents: soft, hard, and goal shaping (https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2512.03293)
- 2025: Meta-representations as representations of processes (https://doi.org/10.1093/nc/niaf038)

Last updated: 2026-08-30