He received the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Osaka University, Japan, in 2001. He was an Assistant Professor at Nara Institute of Science and Technology 2001-2003 and an Associate Professor at Shiga University 2004-2012. His research areas include distributed systems, inter-vehicle communication, mobile computing, multimedia communication, and parallel algorithms. He is a member of IPSJ, ACM and IEEE/CS. Curriculum Vitae (CV)