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