About me

I was born in 1994 in Sydney, Australia, where I spent two years as my father was a travel agent there. The only thing I remember there is that when our family went to Uluru, only I was left at the base and couldn't go to the top. Something I'll miss probably for the rest of my life.

I spent most of my childhood in the Shonan area of Japan, located in the suburb of Tokyo (~1hr by train) and being famous for its beach and a 50yr-old band. Meanwhile I had the privilege to follow my father's relocation and spend most of my primary school in Los Angeles, where I happily learned how to speak English at the cost of a terrible command of Japanese.

During high school, physics used to be the subject I hated the second most (after Japanese, of course), and math was my favorite. This got reversed in college, when I met astronomy and figured that order-of-magnitude estimates is the perfect job for me. This spirit has never changed till now. I devoted a good fraction of my first two years of college in University of Tokyo's Tri-lingual Program, where I studied Mandarin Chinese 10 hours a week and even went to Nanjing for 3 weeks. I still remember the program director's astonished face when I told him I decided to pursue in astrophysics.

I spent two years of undergrad and five years of grad school studying astrophysics in the University of Tokyo, until I received my PhD in 2022. I am very lucky to come back to the US, to enjoy research as an independent postdoc at Caltech and Harvard.

During the time I'm not working I like to go eat ramen and  drink bubble tea, walk in trails and parks, and spend time with my dog back in Tokyo. I am always striving to be a better cook.