Takashi Oguchi was born in Tokyo, Japan. He received the degree from the Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, The University of Tokyo (UTokyo), in 1988, and the Ph.D. degree from the Graduate School of Engineering, UTokyo, in 1993. After joining Nissan Motor Corporation Ltd., he moved to Tokyo Metropolitan University and promoted to a Professor, in 2007. He moved to the Institute of Industrial Science (IIS), UTokyo, in 2011, where he was assigned as the Director of the Advanced Mobility Research Center (ITS Center), in 2018. He is also a member of the Mobility Innovation Collaborative Research Center (UTmobI) started in the university, in July 2018, and is in charge of education with the Department of Civil Engineering, UTokyo. He is currently working as a Professor with the IIS, UTokyo. He also serves as the Leader of the Service Implementation Promotion Working Group of Japanese national project Cross-Ministerial Strategic Innovation Promotion Program in the Innovation of Automated Driving for Universal Services (SIP-adus). His major research fields are traffic management and control, including advanced traffic signal control, advanced highway network traffic management systems, and integrated transport and mobility system design, including automated vehicles, the harmonized design of infrastructure facilities, and hierarchical road transport systems.