Publications:

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Education:

• 1986: BE, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of Tokyo

• 1988: ME, Dept. of Information Engineering, University of Tokyo

• 1991: Dr. of Eng., Dept. of Information Engineering, University of Tokyo

Award:

• 2024: Fellow, Information Processing Society of  Japan

• 2024: IEEE Access Best Video Award

• 2024: Best Demo Award, Augmented Humans Int'l Conf.

• 2024: Best Paper Honorable Mention, Int'l Workshop on Virtual Reality for Human and Spatial Augmentation (VR-HSA) in IEEE VR 2025.

• 2023: JSSST Research Award, Japan Society for Software Science and Technology

• 2022: Best Poster Award, Augmented Humans Int'l Conf.

• 2021: Best Application Paper Award, IEEE Trans. on Haptics, IEEE Robotics &Automation Society

• 2019: Best Research Demonstration Runner-up, IEEE Virtual Reality 2019

• 2019: Best Paper Award, ACM SIGGRAPH VRCAI

• 2018: ACM Recognition of Service Award

• 2018: Best Poster Honorable Mention, ACM Interactive Surfaces and Spaces (ISS2018)

• 2018: Honorable Mentions (Poster & Demo), ACM Symp. on Virtual Reality Software and Technology.

• 2016: Best Paper Award, 1st Asian Workshop on User Interface (AUI2016)

• 2015: Best Short Paper Award, 6th Augmented Human Int'l Conf.

• 2013: Grand Prix Award, 15th Int'l Conf. and Exibition on Virtual Reality (Laval Virtual 2013)

• 2013: Interface and Material Award, 15th Int'l Conf. and Exibition on Virtual Reality (Laval Virtual 2013)

• 2012: Silver Creative Showcase Award, Advances in Computer Entertainment Conf. (ACE2012)

• 2012: Industrial Design and Simulation Award, 14th Int'l Conf. and Exhibition on Virtual Reality (Laval Virtual 2012)

• 2012: 3D Games and Entertainment Award, 14th Int'l Conf. and Exhibition on Virtual Reality (Laval Virtual 2012)

• 2010: Best Paper Award, Virtual Reality Society of Japan

• 2002: Excellent Paper Award, Meeting on Image Recognition and Understanding (MIRU2002)

Work Experience:

• 1991-1994: Assist. Prof. of Department of Communications and Systems, University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo

• 1994-2006: Assoc. Prof. of Graduate School of Information Systems, University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo

• 1994-1996: Visiting Researcher at Prof. Lawrence Stark’s Lab., School of Optometry, UC Berkeley

• 1997: Visiting Researcher at Prof. Carlo Sequin’s Lab., Department of Computer Science, UC Berkeley

• 2003: Visiting Researcher at Prof. Peter Eades’s Lab., Department of Information Technology, Univ. of Sydney

• 2002-2005: Cabinet Official (Information Security), Cabinet Secretary, Japan

• 2006-2014: Prof. of Graduate School of Information Systems, University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo

• 2014-2016: Prof. of Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology

• 2016-2024: Prof. of School of Computing, Tokyo Institute of Technology

• 2024-present: Prof. of School of Computing, Institute of Science Tokyo

Academic Activity:

• 1999: IEEE/CS Int'l Symp. on Visual Languages (VL99), Program Committee

• 2000: IEEE/CS Int'l Symp. on Visual Languages (VL2000), Program Committee

• 2002: ACM Int'l Symp. on Software Visualization (SoftVis2003), Program Committee

• 2004: ACM Int'l Symp. on Software Visualization (SoftVis2005), Program Committee

• 2005: ACM Workshop on Visualization for Computer Security (VisSEC2005), Program Committee

• 2005: Asia-Pacific Symp. on Information Visualization (APVIS2006), Organizing Committee

• 2005: IEEE Pervasive 2006, Program Committee

• 2006: Asia-Pacific Symp. on Visualization (APVIS2007), Program Committee

• 2006: IEEE Pervasive 2007, Program Committee

• 2007: Pacific Visualization Symposium (PacificVis2008), Symposium Co-Chair

• 2010: Augmented Human International Conference (AH), Steering Committee (-2019)

• 2011: ACM Interactive Tabletop and Surfaces (ITS 2012), Conference Co-Chair

• 2013: ACM Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces (ITS 2013), Demo Co-Chair

• 2014: ACM Spatial User Interfaces (SUI 2014), Demo Co-Chair

• 2017: ACM Interactive Surfaces and Spaces (ISS), Steering Committee

• 2018: ACM Interactive Surfaces and Spaces (ISS2018), General Co-Chair

• 2018: ACM Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST2018), Poster/Demo Co-Chair

• 2020: Augmented Humans (AHs), Steering Committee