He earned his doctoral degree in 2015 at Tokyo Institute of Technology, and subsequently worked as a postdoc at Tokyo Institute of Technology and at University of Michigan. His main research interests are transportation science, traffic flow theory, transportation data analysis, and transportation system modeling and management. He is the recipient of Transportation Research Part C Best Paper Award 2017, Kometani-Sasaki Prize for Dissertation, and Best Paper Award at IEEE ITS Conference 2015.