Satoshi Goto was born on January 3rd, 1945 in Hiroshima, Japan. He received the B.E. degree and the M.E. degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Waseda University in 1968 and 1970, respectively. He also received the Dr. of Engineering from the same university in 1981. He joined Central Research Laboratories of NEC in 1970 and worked for NEC for 31 years until 2002. He was General Manager of C&C Media Research Laboratories and Vice President in charge of computer, software and networking research. After leaving NEC in 2002, he became Chief Executive of Kitakyushu Foundation for the Advancement of Industry, Science and Technology. He became Professor at Graduate School of Information, Production and Systems at Waseda University, Kitakyushu in April, 2003.

Dr. Goto is a fellow of IEEE and a member of the Engineering Academy of Japan. He has received a number of awards and honors, including Distinguish Achievement Awards from the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineering. and the same award from Japanese Society of Artificial Intelligence, the best paper award from ICCC and Jubliee Medal from IEEE.