He obtained his B.S. (2000), M.S. (2002), and Ph. D. (2005) degrees in Engineering from Osaka University. Kita has been an assistant professor and then associate professor in the Department of Ecomaterials Engineering and Department of Mechanical Engineering at the NIT, Toyama College from 2005 to the present. He was at the University of California, Santa Barbara, as a visiting researcher for one year (2013).