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Work Experience
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April 2019 - Present: Associate Professor, Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo
November 2016 - March 2019: Excellent Young Researcher, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)
November 2016 - March 2019: Associate Professor, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Osaka
March 2015 - October 2016: Postdoc Research Fellow, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
June 2014 - October 2016: Postdoctoral Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Informatics
July 2010 - May 2014: Project Research Associate, Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo
April 2010 - June 2010: Research Intern, Microsoft Research
October 2007 - March 2008: Research Intern, Microsoft Research Asia

2010: Ph. D., Department of Information and Communication Engineering, The Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo
2007: M. S., Department of Information and Communication Engineering, The Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo
2005: Department of Information and Communication Engineering, The Faculty of Engineering, The University of Tokyo

2025: The Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (Public Understanding Promotion Category)
2022: Best Paper Award (The 4th International Workshop on Gaze Estimation and Prediction in the Wild (GAZE 2022))
2018: Distinguished Paper Award (Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT))
2018: Best Paper Award (International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI 2018))
2017: Outstanding Reviewer Award (IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2017))
2017: Best Paper Honorable Mention Award (The 30th ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST 2017))
2017: Best Paper Award (International Workshop on Physics Based Vision meets Deep Learning (PBDL))
2016: Best Paper Honorable Mention Award (ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2016))
2015: Outstanding Reviewer Award (IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2015))
2015: Best Paper Honorable Mention Award (The 29th ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST 2016))
2014: Outstanding Reviewer Award (IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2014))

2023-Present: Technical Advisor, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
2018-Present: Director, General Incorporated Association xDiversity