1994 Graduated from Toyohashi University of Technology. 2000 Completed the doctoral course in Systems and Information Engineering from the Toyohashi University of Technology. 2000 Research Fellow of JSPS, Department of Ophthalmology, Wakayama Medical University. 2002 Researcher, Brain Science Institute, Laboratory of Neuroinformatics, RIKEN. 2007 Associate Professor, Digital Content and Media Sciences Research Division, National Institute of Informatics. 2017 Center Director/Professor, Research Center for Open Science and Data Platform, National Institute of Informatics. 2021 Adjunct Professor, NIPS.