Masanori Sugimoto received B.Eng. and M.Eng. degrees from Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and Dr.Eng. degree from Interdisciplinary Course on Advanced Science and Technology, University of Tokyo, Japan, in 1990, 1992, and 1995, respectively.

In 1995, he joined Research and Department Development, National Center for Science Information Systems (currently National Institute of Informatics), Tokyo, Japan. He bacame an associate professor at Information Technology Center, University of Tokyo in August 1999. In 2002, he became an associate professor at Department of Frontier Informatics, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo. Then, he was transferred to Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems , Graduate School of Engineering, University of Tokyo in 2008.

Currently, he is a professor at Department of Computer Science and Information Technology, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Hokkaido University.