Profile

Born in Niigata, Japan in 1969

Education and work experiences

1987-1991	Kyoto University, Dept. of Environmental and Sanitary Engineering (Undergraduate)
1991-1993	Graduate school of Kyoto University, Dept. of Environmental and Sanitary Engineering, Master of Engineering (Environmental and Sanitary Engineering)
4-7, 1993	Frontier Researcher Laboratory for Neural Systems, Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), Japan
1993-1996	University of Cambridge (Wolfson College), Department of Experimental Psychology. Supervisor: Prof. Brian C. J. Moore Doctor of Philosophy (auditory perception)
1996-2001	Postdoctral Research Fellow, University of Michigan, Kresge Hearing Research Institute Mentor: Prof. John C. Middlebrooks
2001-present	Senior Research Scientist, Supervisor (present), NTT Communication Science Labs, Human and Information Science Lab, Perception and Emotion Research Group

	Adjunct position(s)
2008-2009	Adjunct Associate Professor, Toyohashi University of Technology, Media Science Research Center

Supervisor of undergraduate studens in Japanese language and in the psychology of hearing (1994-1996; Univ. of Cambridege)
Mentor of short-term intern students from California Institute of Technology, Stanford University, Toyohashi University of Technology, and Osaka University (NTT-CS Labs)
Advisor of doctoral students belonging to Univ. of Tokyo, and Chukyo Univ. (NTT-CS Labs)
Non-full-time lecturer at Tokyo Woman's Christian University: "Multimedia and Psychology (Hearing)" (2010-2011; NTT-CS Labs)

Committee member, Technical Committee of Psychological and Physiological Acoustics, Acoustical Society of Japan (2006 - 2008)
Editorial board member, award committee member, reviewing committee member, session chair of annual meeting, etc., of the ASJ