Current position: Professor at Wakayama University

Degree

• 2000/03 MS from Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST)
  Master thesis: Supporting Mutual Understanding Through Visualizing Individual Differences of Impressions
  Supervisors: Prof. Katuro Inoue, Prof. Yuji Matsumoto, Associate Prof. Kumiyo Nakakoji
• 2003/03 Ph.D. from Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST)
  Dissertation: EVIDII: An Environment for Mutual Understanding and Idea Elicitation in Face-To-Face Inter-Cultural Communication
  Supervisors: Prof. Ken-ichi Matsumoto, Prof. Hiroyuki Seki, Prof. Kumiyo Nakakoji

CV

• 2001/04-2003/03: Research assistant @ PRESTO “Intelligent Cooperation and Control” Group, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)
• 2002/04-2003/03: Visiting student @ Knowledge Interaction Design (KID) Laboratory, Research Center for Advance Science and Technology (RCAST), The University of Tokyo
• 2003/04-2003/09: Research associate @ KID Lab., RCAST, The University of Tokyo
• 2003/04-2003/09: Group member (Post doc) @ PRESTO, JST
• 2003/10-2004/09: Postdoctoral Researcher @ Empirical Software Engineering Research Laboratory, NAIST
• 2004/04-2005/03: Part-time Lecturer @ Osaka University of Arts (Computer Graphics I)
• 2005/05-2007/03: Research associate @ KID Lab., RCAST, The University of Tokyo
• 2004/10-2012/03: Assistant Professor @ Graduate School of Information Science, NAIST
• 2009/04-current : Invited Lector @ Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Osaka University (IT SPIRAL: IT Specialist Program Initiative for Reality-based Advanced Learning)
• 2010/11-2011/03 :Visiting Researcher @ Software Analysis & Intelligence Lab (SAIL), School of Computing, Queen’s University
• 2012/04-current: Associate Professor @ Faculty of Systems Engineering, Wakayama University