Noriyuki Murakami is an Executive Director in the National Agriculture and Food Research Organization. His research focuses on agricultural robotics and information and communication technology in agriculture. He awarded Master of Agricultural Engineering of Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan and Ph.D. from Kyoto University, Japan, in 1991 and 2000, respectively.
He started research at the National Agricultural Research Center, Tsukuba, Japan in 1991, and he has developed the world's first robotic cabbage harvester in 1997. He moved to Hokkaido Agricultural Experiment Station (reorganized as the Hokkaido Agricultural Research Center in 2006) in 1998.
He studied on visual servoing of blimps as visiting scientist at The Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University, U.S.A. from 2000 to 2001. He has also been working on labor-saving technology for medicinal crops since 2004.
He moved to Research Center for Agricultural Information Technology (RCAIT) and Research Center for Agricultural Robotics (RCAR), Japan, in 2021, and he developed and managed the agricultural information platform (WAGRI) as Director of RCAIT since 2023, and in his current position from 2025.