CV
Academic background
This page summarizes my academic background, current appointments, and professional activities.
Appointments
Current positions
- Associate Professor, Graduate School of Informatics, Nagoya University
- Associate Professor (concurrent), School of Informatics, Nagoya University
- Associate Professor (concurrent), Social Value Research Division, Institute of Mobility Society, Institutes of Innovation for Future Society, Nagoya University
- Collaborative faculty member, Center for Embedded Computing Systems (NCES), Nagoya University
Activities
Research and professional activities
- Sub-leader of a Go-Tech project on guidelines for human-machine co-evolution
- Committee member in public and industry projects related to Internet of Things (IoT), Society 5.0, and industrial cybersecurity (related: Internet of Things (IoT) housing / Society 5.0 / Systems of Systems (SoS) / Industrial cybersecurity )
- Vice chair in activities on dependability and innovation governance in the automotive field
- Program committee member and co-chair for APRIS
- Editorial and reviewing work for embedded systems and software venues
- Research and coordination roles in automotive dependability activities
Background
Academic history
- 1982: Born in Shizuoka, Japan
- 2002: Graduated from National Institute of Technology, Numazu College (Control and Information Engineering)
- 2004: B.E., Department of Information Engineering, Nagoya University
- 2006: M.I.S., Graduate School of Information Science, Nagoya University
- 2009: Researcher, Center for Embedded Computing Systems, Nagoya University
- 2011: Ph.D. in Information Science, Nagoya University
- 2012: Designated Assistant Professor, Center for Embedded Computing Systems, Nagoya University
- 2013: Assistant Professor, Center for Embedded Computing Systems, Nagoya University
- 2015: Visiting Research Scholar, University of Washington and University of California San Diego
- 2018-present: Associate Professor, Graduate School of Informatics, Nagoya University
Selected projects
Research and public projects
- Go-Tech project on co-evolution guidelines for machines and people (HMCES), sub-leader, 2022-present
- International standardization activities on functional safety and cooperative safety for Internet of Things (IoT) housing equipment, committee member, 2016-present
- Study groups on governance for Society 5.0 and on governance toward safety and trustworthiness of Systems of Systems (SoS), committee member, 2021-present
- Industrial Cyber Security Study Group WG1 Factory Sub-WG, committee member, 2021-present
- JSAE standardization committee on continuous assurance of dependability for automated driving, vice chair, 2019-2021
- JSAE committee on innovation governance for a new mobility society, vice chair, 2022-present
- SEAMS project on assurance technologies for AI-equipped automated driving systems, sub-leader, 2017-present
- AUTOSAR Adaptive Platform consortium research at NCES, project member, 2018-present
Community roles
Committees and editorial work
- JSSST Dependable Systems SIG, DSW Program Committee member (2025-present)
- APRIS Program Committee member (2019-present), Program Co-Chair (2022)
- IPSJ Journal special issue on embedded systems engineering, editorial committee member (2017-present) and reviewer (2019-present)
- DEOS Association automotive application SIG lead (2017-present) and board member (2021-present)
- NEP lecturer for courses on functional safety, real-time assurance, embedded security, and embedded C++ (2012-present)
- TOPPERS Project steering committee member (2014-present) and developer conference organizer/chair
- SWEST program committee member (2008-present)
- ASIF website administrator (2008-present)
Earlier roles
Past activities and service
Earlier teaching, committee work, advisory roles, and related activities from the former Google Sites page are collected here for reference.
- Deputy Division Director, Social Value Research Division, Institute of Mobility Society, Institutes of Innovation for Future Society, Nagoya University (2024-2025)
- IPSJ SIGEMB steering committee member (2012-2016, 2022-2025)
- University of York, Assuring Autonomy International Programme, research member for the TIGARS project (2018-2021)
- Security Camp National Program lecturer, organized by the Security Camp Council and IPA (2016-2020)
- Technical Committee member, IEICE Information Security Research Group (2016-2021)
- Technical advisor, APTJ Co., Ltd. (2015-2022)
- Program Committee member, OMNeT++ Community Summit (2015-2018)
- Program Committee member, Workshop on Critical Software Systems (2016-2017)
- Member, SICE Authentication Engineering Working Group (2013-)
- Program Committee member, IPSJ Embedded System Symposium (2012-2018); Organizing Committee Chair (2017-2018)
- Program Committee member, IPSJ Computer System Symposium (2018)
- Committee member, IPA Working Group on Safety and Security of Control Systems (2016-2018)
- Part-time Lecturer, School of Culture-Information Studies, Sugiyama Jogakuen University; Information Processing Theory (2015) and Foundations of Information Science (2016)
- Part-time Lecturer, School of Informatics, Daido University; Computer Systems (2013-2014)
- Auditor, Nagoya University Graduate School of Information Science Alumni Association (2009-2011)
- Website administrator, TOPPERS Project (2005-2009)
- President, 5th Nagoya University Graduate School of Information Science Alumni Association (2008)
- Developer, IPA Exploratory Software Project, second half of FY2006: Hierarchical real-time operating system (RTOS) for embedded systems with time protection (2006-2007)
- Vice President, 4th Nagoya University Graduate School of Information Science Alumni Association (2007)
- Advisor, 3rd-5th Summer School on Embedded System Technologies (SSEST) (2007-2009)
- Developer, IPA Exploratory Software Project, first half of FY2005: real-time operating system (RTOS) for embedded systems with time protection (2005-2006)
- Chair, 2nd Summer School on Embedded System Technologies (SSEST2) (2006)
- Organizing Committee member, 1st Summer School on Embedded System Technologies (SSEST1) (2005)