He is also a group-leader for the Micro Power Group of the ERATO Maenaka Sensing Fusion Project on Japan Science Agency. He received Ph. D. degree in engineering from Himeji Institute of Technology in 2000. Then he joined the Osaka prefecture Super Eye Image Sensor (SEIS) project as a researcher and had been involved in the development of MEMS multi-environmental sensor. Since 2001, he had been research associate in the Department of Electronics of the Himeji Institute of Technology. By unification of universities of the Hyogo prefecture in 2004, he joined University of Hyogo. Since 2007, he has been an associate professor. Then he joined the ERATO Maenaka Sensing Fusion Project in 2008. His interests are in MEMS sensors, actuators and their system integration. His current research includes MEMS energy-harvester in human sensing systems.