Personal History
- Mar. 1991 Bachelor of Engineering (Osaka Univ.)
- Mar. 1993 Master of Engineering (Osaka Univ.)
- May 1995 Research Associate at Faculty of Economics , Shiga Univ.
- Mar. 1996 Ph.D. in Engineering (Osaka Univ.)
- April 1996 Assistant Prof. at Shiga Univ.
- April 1997 Visiting researcher of d'IRO at Univ. of Montreal
- Nov. 1998 Associate Prof. at Shiga Univ.
- April 2002- Associate Prof. at NAIST
- Aug. 2004 Visiting Scholar of MONET
research group at UIUC (until Feb. 2005)