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1994.3 Bachelor of Policy Management
Faculty of Policy management, Keio University

2002.3 Master of Interdisciplinary Information Studies
Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, University of Tokyo

2005.3 Doctor of Interdisciplinary Information Studies
Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, University of Tokyo

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1992.8 - 1993.8 Researcher Assistant
Center for Machine Translation, Carnegie Mellon University

1994.6 - 1997.2 Visiting Scholar
The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University

1997.2 - 2000.3 Assistant Researcher
Computer Vision Lab, Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo

2002.4 - 2004.10 Research Fellow
The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

2004.10 - 2010.1 PRESTO Researcher
Japan Science and technology Agency

2005.4 - 2006.12 Assistant Professor
2007.1 - present  Associate Professor
National Institute of Informatics

2007.1 - present  Associate Professor
Served concurrently as Associate Professor at the Graduate university for Advanced Studies

2011.4 - present  Associate Professor
Served concurrently as Visiting Associate Professor at Department of Information Processing, Tokyo Institute of Technology.


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1997.3 Best Paper Award
International Conference on Shape Modeling and Applications (SMI’97)

2000.7 Best Paper Award
Meeting of Image Recognition and Understanding (MIRU2000)

2000.9 Best Paper of the Year
Virtual Reality Society of Japan

2004.7 Excellent Paper Award
Meeting of Image Recognition and Understanding (MIRU2004)

2005.7 Excellent Paper Award
Meeting of Image Recognition and Understanding (MIRU2005)

2005 Best Paper of the Year
IEICE (The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers), Transactions on Information and Systems

2006.6 Best Paper Award
IEEE International Workshop on Projector Camera Systems (PROCAMS 2006)

2006.7 Excellent Paper Award
Meeting of Image Recognition and Understanding (MIRU2006)

2007 Best Paper of the Year
IEICE (The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers), Transactions on Information and Systems

2009.7 Excellent Paper Award
Meeting of Image Recognition and Understanding (MIRU2009)

2009 The Young Scientists’ Prize
The Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in Japan)

2010 IPSJ Nagao Special Researcher Award
Information Processing Society of Japan

2010.10 Best Student Paper Award.
Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV2010)

2011.6 Best Student Paper Honorable Mention Award.
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2011)

2011.11 Microsoft Research Japan New Faculty Award