He received his M.E. and Ph.D. from Tohoku University in 2000 and 2003, respectively, and was engaged in research on dynamically reconfigurable FPGA device/tools and system at Tohoku University. He joined National Institute for Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) in 2004 and started research on distributed embedded systems. He had been working in TOPS Systems Corp on heterogeneous multicore processor hardware and software design from 2009 to 2011. His current research interests are design technology and tools for FPGA to realize low power robots and vision systems.