• 2011- Team Leader, Human-Behavior Sensing and Visualization Research Team, Center for Service Research, AIST
  
• 2010- Team Leader, Service Process Optimization Research Team , Center for Service Research, AIST
• 2009-2010 Director, Service Research Management Office, Center for Service Research, AIST
• 2009- Associate Professor (Cooperative Graduate School Program), Faculty of Engineering, Information and Systems, University of Tsukuba
• 2008-2010 Senior Research Scientist, Center for Service Research, AIST
• 2008- Part-time Lecturer, Kogakuin University
• 2007- Senior Research Scientist, Information Technology Research Institute, AIST
• 2007- Planning Officer, Research and Innovation Promotion Office, AIST
• 2004- Research Scientist, Information Technology Research Institute, AIST
  
• 2003-2005 Visiting Scholar, HIT Lab, University of Washington (JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowships for Research Abroad)
  
• 2001-2004 Research Scientist, Intelligent Systems Institute, AIST
  
• 2002 Lecturer, College of Engineering Systems, University of Tsukuba
  
• 1996-2001 Research Scientist, Machine Understanding Division,Electrotechnical Laboratory
  

Education

• 2007 Ph.D. (Eng.) from Doctoral Program in Graduate School of Systems
  and Information Engineering, University of Tsukuba
  
• 1996 M.E. from Doctoral Program in Engineering, University of Tsukuba
  
• 1993 B.E. from College of Information Sciences, University of Tsukuba
  

Research Interests

• Service Research
• Computer Vision
  
• Wearable/Pervasive Computing
  
• Human Interface
  
• Pattern Recognition
  
• Augmented Reality
  
• Context Awareness
  
• User Modeling
  
  

Publications

Membership of academic societies

• IEEE (The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, inc.)
  
• IEICE (Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers)
  
• VRSJ (The Virtual Reality Society of Japan)
  
• IPSJ (Information Processing Society of Japan)
  
  

Academic activities

• KJMR2012 General Co-Chair
• TrakMark2012 Organizing Committee
• ISMAR2011, Program Committee (Formerly Area Co-Chair)
• TrakMark WG Member
• Guest Editors, Special Issue on "Models for Mixed and Augmented Reality",Springer Virtual Reality (2011)
  
• CollabTech2011 Program Committee
• ACVMAR2010 Program Committee
• ICAT2010 Program Committee
• ISMAR2010 Program Committee
• ISMAR2010 Award Committee Member
• ISMAR AR Super Models Workshop Organizer
• ISMAR2009, Area Co-Chair
• ICPR2012, Local Arrangement Co-Chair
• ISMAR2008, Program Committee Member
• KJMR08 Program Committee
• CollabTech2008 Program Committee Member
• ISMAR2007 Tutorial/Workshop Chair, Program Committee Member
• ISMAR2006, Program Committee Member
• CollabTech2006, Program Committee Member
  
• ISMAR2005, Program Committee Member
  
• ISMAR2004, Program Committee Member
• ISMAR2002, Program Committee Member