Yutaka Matsuo is a professor at Research into Artifacts, Center for Engineering, the University of Tokyo.

He received his BS, MS, and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Tokyo in 1997, 1999, and 2002. After working at National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) and Stanford University, he joined the faculty of University of Tokyo in 2007.

He served as Editor-in-chief at Japan Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI) from 2012 to 2014.

He is now the chair of the ELSI committee in JSAI.

He is also a visiting associate professor at National University of Singapore (NUS).