Katsushi Ikeuchi is a Professor of the University of Tokyo, Japan. He received the Ph.D. degree in Information Engineering from the University of Tokyo in 1978. After working at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT for three years, the Electrotechnical Laboratory, MITI for five years, and the School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University for ten years, he joined the university in 1996.
He has served program/general chairman of several international conferences, including 1995 IEEE-IROS (General), 1996 IEEE-CVPR (Program), 1999 IEEE-ITSC (General) and 2003 ICCV (Program). He is an Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Computer Vision. He is a fellow of IEEE, IEICE, IPSJ, and RSJ.
He has received several awards, including Distinguished Researcher Award from IEEE PAMI-TC and Shiju Hou Sho (Medal of Honor with Purple ribbons) from Japanese Emperor.