Digital Architect, venture capitalist, entrepreneur, author, and scholar. He works to respond to complex challenges such as education, our democracy and governance, and redesigning systems of scholarship and science. He has served as Director of the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the U.S. and as a director of Sony and The New York Times. He is a member of the board of directors of Digital Garage, Inc. He is a member of the Digital Agency's Digital Society Planning Council. He has become president of the Chiba Institute of Technology from July 2023. He is the author of many books, including "AI Driven　AI　de Shinka suru Jinrui no Hatarakikata” (SB Shinsho), “(Revised Edition) Kon-nichi toshiteno Technology: AI, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain” (Kodansha Bunko).　 Ito is currently working on a book titled “Practice of Change” (変革論) based on his Keio University PhD dissertation with the same name.