Mitsuru Irie completed graduate studies in bioinformatics at Tokyo Institute of Technology, now Institute of Science Tokyo. After working at a policy consulting firm and an IT venture, he co-founded MI-6 in 2018.
Since then, he has worked to advance materials informatics from a promising analytical approach into a practical foundation for industrial R&D. His work focuses on transforming how materials and chemical companies generate knowledge, make decisions, and accelerate innovation through the integration of data, AI, and experimental science.