He received his B.E. in electric engineering, his M.E. in information and communication engineering and his Ph.D. in information science and technology from The University of Tokyo in 2000, 2002 and 2005 respectively. His research interests include database systems and storage systems. He is a member of ACM, IEEE, USENIX, IEICE (The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers), IPSJ (Information Processing Society of Japan), and DBSJ (The Database Society of Japan). Dr. Goda is also a Sunday sailor, who enjoys 470-class and Laser-class dinghies near Shonan-Enoshima horbor, 50 miles southwest from central Tokyo. Before moving to Tokyo, he had lived in Shikoku, the smallest of the four Japanese main islands.