CV

Professional career

• April 2022 - Present: Professor at Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Tokyo, Japan
• July 2015 - March 2023: Professor at Department of Mathematical Sciences, Faculty of Mathematics, Kyushu University, Japan (Cross Appointment Agreement with University of Tokyo for FY2022)
  
• April 2011 - June 2015: Associate professor at Institute of Mathematics for Industry, Kyushu University, Japan
• December 2010 - March 2011: Associate professor at Graduate School of Mathematics, Kyushu University, Japan
• April 2007 - November 2010: Assistant professor at Graduate School of Mathematics, Kyushu University, Japan
• April 2004 - March 2007: Assistant at Graduate School of Mathematics, Kyushu University, Japan


• Editor-in-Chief of Japanese Journal of Statistics and Data Science: October 2022 - Present
• Associate editor of Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics: July 2021 - Present
• Associate editor of Statistical Inference for Stochastic Processes: January 2014 - Present
• Elected member of ISI (International Statistical Institute): January 2012 - Present


• Associate editor of Bernoulli journal: January 2019 - December 2024
• Coordinating editor of Japanese Journal of Statistics and Data Science: December 2019 - September 2022
• Editor of Bulletin of Informatics and Cybernetics; chairman of Research Association of Statistical Sciences: April 2019 - March 2023
  
• Associate editor, Journal of the Japan Statistical Society (June 2013 - May 2017)

Academic award and prize

• Ogawa Prize, Japan Statistical Society (September 7, 2006)
• Research Achievement Award, Japan Statistical Society (September 15, 2014)

Educational background

• Baccalaureate in Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Japan (1999)
• M.S. in Mathematical Sciences, Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Tokyo, Japan (2001)
• Master Thesis: "On Parametric Estimation in a Hidden Markov Model"
• Ph.D. in Mathematical Sciences, Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Tokyo, Japan (2004)
• Ph.D. Thesis: "Some Results Concerning Statistical Inference for Mixing Processes"

Funded fellowship grants (principal investigator only)

• JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 24K21516: FY 2024-2026 (Scheduled)
• JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 22H01139 (--> 23K22410): FY 2022-2025 (Scheduled)
• JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 17K05367: FY 2017-2019
  
• JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 26400204: FY 2014-2016
  
• Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Ministry of Education, Japan, (Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B) 23740082): 2011-2014
• Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Ministry of Education, Japan, (Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B) 20740061): 2008-2011
• Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Ministry of Education, Japan, (Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B) 17740061): 2005-2008
• Cooperative Research Program, the Institute of Statistical Mathematics (19-4303): 2007-2008
• Cooperative Research Program, the Institute of Statistical Mathematics (20-4303): 2008-2009
• Cooperative Research Program, the Institute of Statistical Mathematics (21-2054): 2009-2010
• Coop with Math Program, Workshop 2013W01: Bernoulli Society Satellite Meeting to the ISI World Statistics Congress 2013, Asymptotic Statistics and Related Topics: Theories and Methodologies, 2013/09/02-2013/09/04