Curriculum Vitae
Appointments, education, awards, grants, and service, newest first. Publications are listed separately on the Publications page.
Appointments
2025– Associate Professor, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Hosei University
2021–2025 Assistant Professor, Okayama University
Education
2021 Ph.D. in Engineering, Osaka University
Research Interests
Operations research, optimization, and machine learning — in particular, algorithms for autonomous decision-making in inventory, manufacturing, and supply chain systems. Current work covers data-driven optimization for multi-echelon supply chains under uncertainty, optimization for robotic manufacturing systems, and reinforcement learning with an emphasis on explainability and human-centric, trustworthy decision support.
Awards
2026 Young Investigator Award, ISFA 2026
2024 Distinguished Young IEOM Researcher Award, IEOM Society
2019 Best Paper Award, IEEE IEEM
Grants
2023–2026 Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists, JSPS — Principal Investigator (23K13514)
2022–2026 Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), JSPS — Co-Investigator (23K22983)
Project details on the Research page.
Professional Service
2021– Secretary, Cyber-Physical Flexible Automation (CyFA) research committee
2026 Executive Committee, International Symposium on Flexible Automation (ISFA) 2026
2025 Program Committee, 44th IFIP WG 5.7 International Conference on Advances in Production Management Systems (APMS 2025)
2023 Organizing Committee, 67th Annual Conference of the Institute of Systems, Control and Information Engineers (SCI’23)
2021 Organizing Committee, 65th Annual Conference of the Institute of Systems, Control and Information Engineers (SCI’21)
Session Chair
Annual Conference of the Institute of Systems, Control and Information Engineers (2022, 2024) · JSME Manufacturing Systems Division Conference (MSD2024) · Scheduling Symposium (2023)
Reviewing
IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering · Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence · Expert Systems with Applications
Memberships
Institute of Systems, Control and Information Engineers (2021–) · Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers (2020–) · IEEE (2024–2025)
Publications
Peer-reviewed articles in journals including Expert Systems with Applications, Information Sciences, and Applied Artificial Intelligence.