WORK EXPERIENCE
- Superception Project Leader, April 2021 – Present
- PI in Project Cybernetic Being Project, JST Moonshot R&D program
- Researcher, Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc, July. 2020 – Present
- Associate Researcher, Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc, Sep. 2017 – June 2020
- Project Assistant Professor, Nov. 2018 – March 2021
ERATO Inami Jizai body project / Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo. - Assistant Researcher, Jun. 2014 – Sep. 2017
Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc - Research Affiliate, Feb. 2012 – Aug. 2012
MIT Media Lab - Engineer, Apr. 2008 – Jun. 2014
Sony Corporation.
EDUCATION
- Ph.D., Interdisciplinary Information Studies, Sep. 2017
The University of Tokyo, Japan - Master’s degree in Applied Physics, Human-Computer Interaction. Mar. 2008
Waseda University
SELECTED AWARDS
- Innovative Technologies 2021 Prize, Morphing Identity
- Laval Virtual Grand Prize at ACM SIGGRAPH 2019 Emerging Technologies.
- Best Paper Award: Jackin Head, Nov 2015, VRST ’15: 21st ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology
- Award for Excellence: Sports Virtual Reality with JackIn Head, VRC Award 2015.
- Best Presentation Award : JackIn, Mar 2014, International Conference on Augmented Human 2014
- People’s choice Best Demo Honorable Mention: Jackin Head, Oct 2014, UIST’14 : the 27th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
- Best paper Award, Best demonstration Award : JackIn, Feb 2014, INTERACTION 2014
- Jury Selections, Japan media festival 2013 : Second surface, Dec 2013
- Emerging Technologies Prize, Second Surafce, Nov 2012, SIGGRAPH ASIA 2012