Prof. Ishida is a Professor Emeritus of Kyoto University, and was a professor from 1993 to 2019. He was a President of IEICE from 2021 to 2022, and a member of the Science Council of Japan from 2011 to 2017. He has been working on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems since 1988. He worked toward creation of the top conference in this area, and served as a General Co-Chair of the first AAMAS in 2002. He has led several research projects, such as Digital City Kyoto and the Language Grid. He initiated (probably) the world first multi-lingual project using machine translation with Chinese, Korean, and Malaysian colleagues in 2002. The concept "intercultural collaboration" was coined during this experiment. He created a Design School at Kyoto University with his colleagues in Informatics, Architecture, Mechanical Engineering, Management and Psychology. He served as a visiting professor at Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Paris 6, University of Maryland, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, etc., and was awarded the HKBU Distinguished Professor of Science in 2014. He is a Fellow of IEEE.