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After working as an architect and art researcher, he launched several new businesses at Docomo and DeNA, and in 2017, founded uni'que. In 2018, he was selected for the "Amazing Ventures 100." In April 2023, he founded Metaverse Creators. He has been featured in the media and given numerous lectures on new business development, art thinking, diversity, and community-related topics. His publications include *How to Art Thinking* and *The Art Thinking Workbook*. He is a visiting professor at Fukuoka Women’s University and an associate visiting professor at Nagano Prefectural University.

With over four decades of experience in the semiconductor industry, Richard Nakajima has navigated the worlds of Japan and the United States with a rare, bicultural fluency. From founding Cubic Micro in Silicon Valley to leading AI and IoT initiatives at Renesas Electronics, Nakajima has consistently stood at the intersection of engineering, entrepreneurship, and global collaboration.
Today, he’s pioneering a new frontier: using semiconductors as a core component in capturing and synthesizing sound, bringing together AI, art, and emotion. At iXOS, he’s transforming urban environments—like Yokohama—into living, breathing sources of data and feeling through sound-based AI systems. And as a jazz pianist, he knows firsthand the emotional potential of audio when fused with technology.

A graduate of the University of Tokyo's Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, they bring a unique blend of architecture, design, and informatics expertise. Previously, they worked at the Tadao Ando Architectural Institute, contributing to global design projects, and later in the commercial design division of a major general contractor. Their academic research focused on the intersection of architecture, urbanism, and spatial information analysis.