Graduated from the Department of Industrial Mechanical Engineering, the University of Tokyo in 1997. Finished the Doctoral Program of the University in 2002. Began serving as a researcher at the Telecommunications Advancement Organization of Japan that year. The job title changed in 2004 due to an organizational reform to a researcher at the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology. Appointed as a Lecturer at the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo, in 2005. Since 2006 has been serving as a Lecturer at the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology. Engaged in researches concerning image-based rendering as well as MR. Ph.D. in Engineering.