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.

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