Education

Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Tokyo

Honors and Awards

• A Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Prize in 2009.
• IEEE/ISSCC Sugano Award in (2004)
• “large-area sensor array” electronic thin film was featured in Time Magazine as one of its “Best Inventions of 2005”(2005)

Career:

• A professor of Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Tokyo (up to now)
• the Nanocenter (NSEC) of Columbia University and Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, as a Visiting Scholar (2001-2003)
• Global foundries Visiting Professor, National University of Singapore since (2016)