He received the Ph.D in Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering at Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1999. He had stayed in University of California Los Angeles in 2000-2001 and Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2001-2002 as a visiting scholar. He was also a JST PRESTO researcher from 2004 to 2008, and currently a senior researcher of NEDO BEANS project from 2008. His research interests focus on thermophysical properties of a nano-structured material.