Curriculum Vitae

Education

• Dr. Eng.,
  Dept. of Civil Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Kobe University, Japan, Sep. 2010
  Dissertation:
  Time-series Analysis of Longitudinal Archived Transportation Data (Written in Japanese)
  
• M.Eng.,
  Dept. of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kobe University, Japan, Mar. 2008
  Thesis:
  Visualization in Traffic Flow Data Analysis (Written in Japanese)
• B.Eng.,
  Dept. of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Kobe University, Japan, Mar. 2006

Research and Professional Experience

• Apr 2023–present President & CEO(Social Designers Base, Inc.)
• Apr 2021–present Visiting Researcher (Center for Spatial Information Science, the University of Tokyo)
• Apr 2022–Sep 2023 Project Associate Professor (School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo)
• Apr 2021–present Data Analysis Director(Hankyu Hanshin Holdings, Inc.)
• Jan 2021–Mar 2022 Associate Professor (Center for Spatial Information Science, the University of Tokyo)
• Apr 2016–Dec 2020 Assistant Professor (Center for Spatial Information Science, the University of Tokyo)
• Mar 2015–Mar 2015 Visiting Fellow (Civil Engineering and The Built Environment, Queensland University of Technology)
• Jan 2011–Mar 2016 Assistant Professor (Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology)
• Oct 2010–Dec 2010 JSPS Research Fellow – PostDocs (Kobe University)
• Apr 2010–Sep 2010 JSPS Research Fellow – DC2 (Kobe University)

Membership in Academic Societies

• Japan Society of Civil Engineers (JSCE)
• Japan Society of Traffic Engineers (JSTE)
• Association for Planning and Transportation Sudies
• Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies (EASTS)
• Architectural Institute of Japan
• IEEE (Intelligent Transportation Systems Society)

Awards and Honours

• 2023 Japan Road Association(JARA) Outstanding Presentation Award (with Mr. Shinya ADACHI, Mr. Akira TSUKAMOTO, Dr. Yasuo ASAKURA).
• 2017 Japan Society of Civil Engineering, Comittee of Infrastracture Planning and Management (JSCE-IP), Outstanding Paper Prize (with Dr. Toru SEO and Prof. Yasuo ASAKURA).
• 2017 Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies TRC Best Paper Award 2017 (with Dr. Toru SEO and Prof. Yasuo ASAKURA).
• 2016 Japan Society of Traffic Engineers(JSTE) Outstanding Paper Prize (with Mr. Naoya NARIOKA, Dr. Toru SEO, Prof. Yasuo ASAKURA).
• 2015 IEEE 18th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Best Paper Award (with Mr. Toru SEO and Prof. Yasuo ASAKURA ).
• 2014 Japan Society of Traffic Engineers(JSTE) Research Encouragement Award (with Mr. Toru SEO and Prof. Yasuo ASAKURA ).
• 2013 Japan Society of Civil Engineers(JSCE), Young Scholar Paper Award.
• 2013 Japan Road Association(JARA) Outstanding Paper Award (with Mr. Naoya NARIOKA, Mr. Toru SEO, Prof. Yasuo ASAKURA).
• 2009 Japan Society of Traffic Engineers(JSTE) Outstanding Paper Prize (with Prof. Yasuo ASAKURA and Dr. Takamasa IRYO).

Related Skills

• Computer Software:> Microsoft Office, R, Linux, PostgreSQL, PostGIS, MySQL, Mapserver, Apache, SIS.
• Programming: C/C++, HTML, Perl, PHP, JAVA.
• Certifications:> Software Design and Development Engineer (Japan Information-Technology Engineers Examination Center(JITEC)), 2005