Employment

Professor at Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Hiroshima University, Japan : April 2020 - Present

Director at KOBELCO Construction Machinery Dream-Driven Co-Creation Research Center, Hiroshima University, Japan : April 2023 - Present

Director at Applied Human Augmentation Project Research Center, Hiroshima University, Japan : April 2022 - Present

Visiting Researcher at Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST), The University of Tokyo, Japan : July 2017 - Present

Visiting Researcher at National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan : June 2020 - Present

Visiting Researcher at Frontier Research Center for Digital Rehabilitation, Niigata University of Health and Welfare, Japan : April 2022 - Present


[Former positions]

Assistant to President by Special Appointment at Hiroshima University, Japan : February 2018 - March 2023

Concurrent Professor at KOBELCO Construction Machinery Dream-Driven Co-Creation Research Center, Hiroshima University, Japan : July 2015 - March 2023

Director at Human Augmentation Department of Brain, Mind, and Kansei Research Center, Hiroshima University, Japan : December 2019 - March 2022

Professor at Graduate School of Engineering, Hiroshima University, Japan : April 2018 - March 2020

Researcher at Japan Science and Technology Agency(JST) PRESTO, Social Infomation Infrastructure Area, Japan : November 2016 - March 2020

Associate Professor at Graduate School of Engineering, Hiroshima University, JAPAN: April 2011 - March 2018

Visiting Researcher, National Institute of Advanced Science and Technology (AIST), Intelligent Systems Research Institute, JAPAN: April 2010 - March 2017

Researcher, Japan Science and Technology Agency(JST) PRESTO, Information Environment and Humans Research Area, JAPAN: October 2011 - March 2015

Assistant Professor at Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), JAPAN: April 2007 - March 2011

Visiting Scholar at Bio-Robotics & Human-Modeling Laboratory, George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA: March 2010 - March 2011

Research Associate at Dept. of Artificial Complex Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Hiroshima University, JAPAN: January 2005 - March 2007

Visiting Associate Professor at Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, The State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook, USA: January 2006 - March 2006

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Education

Ph.D degree from Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Nara, Japan, in Dec 2004.

M.E. degree from Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Nara, Japan, in Mar 2002.

B.E. degree from Osaka University, Osaka, Japan, in Mar 2000.

Social and academic activities (International)