She received her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in information science and technology from the University of Tokyo in 2003, 2005, and 2008, respectively. After working as a researcher at the Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo for two and a half years, as a visiting scholar at Microsoft Research Asia for half a year, as a post-doc researcher at the University of California, Berkeley for two years, and at Osaka University for a year, she joined the university in 2014. Her research interests are in color constancy, spectral analysis and physics-based computer vision.