Personal History

Education

• [March, 1998] Doctor of Science, Dept. of Mathematical and Computing Sciences, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan.
• [March, 1995] Master of Science, Dept. of Information Sciences, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan.
• [March, 1993] Bachelor of Science, Dept. of Information Sciences, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan.

Employment

• [June, 2001 -- ] Associate Professor, Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.
• [April, 1997 -- May, 2001] Assistant Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan.

Visiting Overseas

• [July, 2012 -- August, 2012] Visiting Researcher, Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum fuer Informationstechnik Berlin, Berlin, Germany
  (host: Martin Gro"tschel, Ralf Borndo"rfer, supported by Sponsorship of Alexander von Humboldt Foundation)
• [August, 2005 -- September, 2006] Visiting Researcher, Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum fuer Informationstechnik Berlin, Berlin, Germany
  (host: Martin Gro"tschel, supported by Research Fellowship of Alexander von Humboldt Foundation)
• [February, 2001 -- March, 2001] Visiting Researcher, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
  (host: Tom McCormick)
• [April, 1996 -- June, 1996] Visiting Student, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
  (host: Tom McCormick)

Professional Activities

• [2002 -- ] Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), Member.
• [1999 -- ] Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), Member.
• [1997 -- ] Mathematical Programming Society, Member.
• [1995 -- 2007] Information Processing Society of Japan, Member.
• [1993 -- ] Operations Reseach Society of Japan, Member.