Education

• 1973.03　B. Eng. Nagoya Univ., School of Engineering, Dept. of Electrical Engineering
• 1975.03　M. Eng. Nagoya Univ., Graduate School of Engineering, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Electronics
• 1984.01　Dr. Eng. 1984.1 Nagoya University

Academic and Research Positions

• 1975.04　Researcher of the Rehabilitation Engineering Center under the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare
• 1986.04　Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics, School of Engineering, Nagoya University
• 1989.03　Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics, School of Engineering, Nagoya University
• 1992.09 -- 1993.01　Visiting Researcher, Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence, The University of Michigan
• 1993.10 -- 2001.09　Head of Laboratory for Biomimetic Sensory Team in Biomimetic Control Research Center, RIKEN
• 1994.04　Professor, Department of Information Engineering, Nagoya University 　
• 1996.04　Professor, Graduate School of Information Engineering, Nagoya University 　
• 2000.05　Professor, Center for Information Media Studies, Nagoya University 　
• 2002.03　Professor, Graduate School of Information Engineering, Nagoya University
• 2003.04　Professor, Department of Media Science, Graduate School of Information Science, Nagoya University

Activities in the University

• 2004.04 -- 2006.03　Vice Dean of Graduate School of Information Science, Nagoya University
• 2005.04 -- 　Steering Committee Member of Institute for Advanced Research, Nagoya University