I am a tenure-track assistant professor at Graduate School of Informatics, Nagoya University.

Previously I was a research-associated assistant professor at Center for Quantum Information and Quantum Biology (QIQB), Osaka University, and before that I was a post-doc researcher at Institute for Quantum Information and Matter (IQIM), Caltech.

My main research interest is in Quantum Information Theory and its applications to Quantum Many-Body Physics.

Key words: topologically ordered phases, Gibbs states, quantum Markov states

E-Mail: kokato (at) i.nagoya-u.ac.jp