Satoru Isaka received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in systems science from the University of California, San Diego, in 1984, 1986, and 1989, respectively. His original research focused on adaptive control systems and artificial intelligence. He has over 30 years of experience in the automation industry. From 1990 to 1998, he was a research scientist at OMRON in factory automation. From 1998 to 2004, he served as Chief Technology Officer and Chief Scientist in the fields of service automation, natural language processing, speech automation, and data analyses at venture startups in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 2004, he founded Vision Del Mar, LLC.
His interest is machine autonomy, exploring the principles of why and how machines learn and acquire news skills on their own without human intervention.
Unlike other research in AI or cognitive science, his study does not aim to understand human cognition or replicate human capabilities. Instead, it strictly focuses on identifying the systems and processes that achieve autonomy from a machine's perspective.
