He received a B.S. in Engineering in 2002, an M.S. in Information Science and Technology in 2004, and a Ph.D. in Information Science and Technology in 2007, from University of Tokyo, Japan. He joined the Image-Guided Therapy Program at Brigham and Women's Hospital as a postdoctoral fellow in April 2007. He is currently serving as a PI of NIH R01 project "OpenIGTLink: A Network Communication Interface for Closed-loop Image Guided Interventions"(R01EB020667). His research interests include navigation software, MRI-compatible robots, and integration of these technologies for clinical applications. He has broad experience of developing and testing image-guided software and manipulators clinically including navigation software and needle-guide manipulators for MR-guided microwave ablation and MR-guided prostate biopsy/cryoablation.