Dr. Gill Pratt is the Chief Executive Officer of Toyota Research Institute (TRI), where he directs research to create new capabilities for Toyota in Active Safety, Automated Driving, Robotics, and other Human Amplification technologies. He also serves in a global role guiding Toyota’s research strategy as Chief Scientist and Executive Fellow for Research of Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) and Executive Advisor of Toyota Central R&D Labs., Inc. (TCRDL), both in Japan. Prior to joining TRI as its founding CEO in January 2016, Dr. Pratt served as an Executive Technical Advisor to Toyota Motor Corporation.
Dr. Pratt previously led the Robotics Challenge, Robotics Research, and Neuromorphic Computing research programs for the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), where he served as a program manager in the Defense Sciences and Tactical Technology Offices from January 2010 through August 2015.
Dr. Pratt was an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Director of the Leg Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Subsequently, he was a founding Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs and Research at Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering. Dr. Pratt’s academic research focused on robotics and intelligent systems. Specific areas of interest included interfaces that significantly enhance human/machine collaboration, mechanisms and control methods for enhanced mobility and manipulation, low impedance actuators, the application of neuroscience techniques to robot perception and control, and the impact of Robotics and AI on society. Dr. Pratt holds several patents in series elastic actuation and adaptive control.
Dr. Pratt earned Doctor of Philosophy (1990), Master of Science (1987), and Bachelor of Science (1983) degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT. His Ph.D. thesis was in the field of spiking computation in natural and artificial neural systems. Dr. Pratt also worked for the Physics and Computer Science Research Departments of Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey.
Dr. Pratt’s plenary talk at IEEE DTDA2026 will provide valuable insights into the human-centered artificial intelligence, robotics and the evolving relationship between humans and advanced technologies.

Kohsuke Kudo, MD, PhD, is Professor and Chair of Diagnostic Imaging at Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine and Head of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology at Hokkaido University Hospital, Japan. He is a board-certified radiologist specializing in neuroradiology and advanced medical imaging.
As both a radiologist and a software developer, he has developed medical image analysis software since 2006. His major developments include the Perfusion Mismatch Analyzer (PMA) and PMAneo, a platform for CT and MR perfusion analysis in acute ischemic stroke. PMAneo received regulatory approval as software as a medical device in Japan in 2020 and is now used in clinical practice.
He also leads multidisciplinary projects on the clinical implementation of AI in radiology, including image enhancement, lesion detection and segmentation, quantitative analysis, and clinical decision support. His work focuses on bridging the gap between technological innovation and everyday clinical practice through collaboration among clinicians, engineers, researchers, and industry partners.

Arokia Nathan is a leading pioneer in the development and application of thin film transistor technologies to flexible electronics, display and sensor systems, and mm-Wave radios on glass. Following his PhD in Electrical Engineering, University of Alberta, Canada in 1988, he joined LSI Logic USA and subsequently the Institute of Quantum Electronics, ETH Zürich, Switzerland, before joining the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Waterloo, Canada. In 2006, he joined the London Centre for Nanotechnology, University College London as the Sumitomo Chair of Nanotechnology. He moved to Cambridge University in 2011 as the Chair of Photonic Systems and Displays, and he is currently a Bye-Fellow and Tutor at Darwin College. He has over 600 publications including 6 books, and more than 150 patents and four spin-off companies. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, Institution of Engineering and Technology (UK), Royal Academy of Engineering, Canadian Academy of Engineering, Society for Information Displays, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and National Academy of Inventors. He is a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Electron Devices Society and Sensor Council, a Chartered Engineer (UK), and winner of the 2020 IEEE EDS JJ Ebers Award. He is currently the President of the IEEE Electron Devices Society.

This MQ lecture will examine the rapid development of thin-film semiconductor oxide electronics and their growing importance in enabling future generations of large-area semiconductor technologies. It will review recent progress in oxide thin-film transistors, with particular emphasis on their distinctive advantages, including high charge-carrier mobility, optical transparency, and compatibility with low-temperature fabrication processes. By connecting fundamental materials physics with practical device engineering, the lecture will demonstrate how amorphous and nanocrystalline oxide materials can support the development of scalable, large-area, and mechanically flexible electronic platforms. Applications across high-resolution display backplanes, wearable sensors, and transparent integrated electronic systems will be explored. The lecture will conclude by highlighting the potential of oxide electronics to play a central role in the development of energy-efficient, adaptive, and ubiquitous large area, CMOS-compatible technologies for the future.