He received his B.S. degree (Engineering) in 2001, M.S. degree (Engineering) in 2003, and Ph.D. degree (Engineering) in 2006, from Gifu University. And then he had been a post-doctoral researcher and assistant professor at Professor Hiroshi Mamitsuka’s Lab in Kyoto University. Last year he was appointed his current position, and has been managing his laboratory on data engineering. His research interest is on data mining, statistical machine learning and its application to Bioinformatics, especially data mining with auxiliary information.