Dr. Jun Kato is a senior researcher at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) and the technical advisor at Arch, Inc. He worked as research interns for Microsoft and Adobe Research, received his Ph.D. degree from The University of Tokyo in 2014, and has regularly received academic recognition such as Honorable Mentions at ACM CHI (2013, 2015, 2023) and IPSJ/ACM Award (2021). He has researched Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), particularly creativity support for programmers, music video creators, anime directors, etc. His work has often gone beyond research papers and been released for public use.