He received the B.E. and M.E. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Waseda University, Japan, in 2004 and 2006, respectively. He received the Ph.D. degree in Integrative Bioscience and Biomedical Engineering from Waseda University, Japan, in 2009. While a Ph.D. candidate, he was funded by the Japan Society for the Promotion Science as a Research Fellow. He was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Laboratoire de Physiologie de la Perception et de l’ Action in UMR 7152 College de France-CNRS, France from 2012 to 2013. His research interests include walking/running systems, legged robots, and humanoid robots. He received the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Japan Chapter Young Award in 2006, the JSME Fellow Award for Outstanding Young Engineers in 2008, and the RSJ Young Investigation Excellence Award in 2015.