Current Position:

Tampere University, Finland

  Associate Professor, January 2024 - present

  Head of Intelligent Networked Systems Group

  Automation Technology and Mechanical Engineering

  Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences

Education:

Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany

  Dr.-Ing. in Control Engineering, October 2012 

  Thesis: Performance-oriented distributed control design for interconnected systems

  Supervisor: Prof. Sandra Hirche

Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

  M.Eng. in Mechanical and Control Engineering, March 2008

  Thesis: Coverage control with anisotropic sensors

  Supervisor: Prof. Masayuki Fujita

Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

  B.Eng. in Control Systems Engineering, March 2006

  Thesis: Development of walking assistive device for disabled people (in Japanese)

  Supervisor: Prof. Masashi Shimizu

Previous Position:

Tampere University, Finland

  Assistant Professor, May 2019 - January 2024

  Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences

University of Central Florida, USA

  Research associate, 2018 - 2019

  Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

University of Central Florida, USA

  Postdoctoral researcher, November 2012 - 2017

  Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany

  Research assistant, April 2008 - May 2011

  Institute of Automatic Control Engineering

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