I received my B.E., M.E., and PhD degrees in engineering in 2000, 2002, and 2005, respectively, from Keio University, Yokohama, Japan. From 2005 to 2012, I was with the NTT Cyber Space Laboratories, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) as a Research Engineer. From 2010 to 2011, I was also a visiting researcher at Victoria University of Wellington. In 2013 I permanently migrated to New Zealand and was appointed as a Lecturer at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch. Then in 2014, I joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering as a Senior Lecturer in Mechatronics where I am currently an Associate Professor and mainly teach electronics and computer engineering courses for the Mechatronics programme. I am also the Co-Director (Research) of the Acoustics Research Centre (http://www.mech.auckland.ac.nz/en/about/ourresearc...) (ARC) at the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering and the head of the Communication Acoustics Laboratory (https://cal.auckland.ac.nz), which belongs to the ARC.

Distinctions/Honours:

- National Science Challenge Science for Technological Innovation (SfTI) Seed Project grant (PI)

- 2020 - Royal Society of New Zealand Catalyst: Seeding New Zealand-Japan Joint Research Project Programme grant (PI)

- 2019 - University of Auckland Faculty Research Development Fund (PI) - 2019 - AUEA Emerging Researcher Award - 2016

- University of Auckland Faculty Research Development Fund New Staff (PI) - 2015

Responsibilities:

- Mechatronics Course Advisor (2015-)

- Mechatronics Teaching Group Convenor (2017, 2019-)

- Acoustics Research Centre Co-Director (2021-), Deputy Director (2017-2021)

- Faculty Research Committee Member (2016-2018)

Committee/Professional groups/Services:

- Senior member of IEEE.

- Committee member of IEEE NZ Signal Processing / Information Theory Chapter

      - 2015, 2022 -: Vice Chair

      - 2016 - 2021: Chair

- Member of ASNZ (Acoustical Society of New Zealand).

- Member of ASJ (Acoustical Society of Japan).

Member of the Acoustics Research Centre: http://www.acoustics.auckland.ac.nz/ (http://www.acoustics.auckland.ac.nz/)

Head of Communication Acoustics Lab: http://cal.auckland.ac.nz/ (http://cal.auckland.ac.nz/)