Biography

Education Background

2009-2012　Ph.D. in Engineering, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Graduate School of Decision Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo
2007-2009　Master in Engineering, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Graduate School of Decision Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo
2000-2004　Bachelor in Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Automation, School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai

Academic experience

Associate Professor
April 2020 – Present　Department of Industrial Engineering and Economics, School of Engineering, Institute of Science Tokyo (formerly Tokyo Institute of Technology), Tokyo, Japan
Assistant Professor
April 2012 – March 2020　Department of Industrial Engineering and Economics, School of Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan
Guest Ph.D. Student
September 2009 – December 2009　Management Engineering Department, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark

Industry experience

Procurement Engineer
July 2004 – July 2007　Procurement Department, Dongfeng Nissan Passenger Vehicle Company, Guangzhou, China

Research fields

Healthcare management, Safety Engineering, Ergonomics

Funded research projects

1. 2025-2027
   “Clarification of risk perception process in emergency medical care based on two-stage eye movement analysis and development of educational tools” funded by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) (No. 25K08172), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Co-investigator)
2. 2025-2027
   “Relationship between workplace discrimination and health of foreign workers” funded by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) (No. 25K13699), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Co-investigator)
3. 2023-2027
   “A European network to leverage the multi-age workforce” funded by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) (COST Action CA22120, LeverAge) (International collaborator)
4. 2024-2026
   “Developing a PROACTIVE telemedicine-related incident management system” funded by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) (No. 24K07926), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Principal investigator)
5. 2021-2025
   “Norway-ChINa-JApan-South Korea network for smart, safe and sustainable healthcare (NINJAS4CARE)” funded by the Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research（No. UTF-2020-10099）(Co-investigator)
6. 2019-2023
   “Patient safety: Casting a spotlight on electronic medical record-related incidents” funded by Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (No. 19K15236), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Principal investigator)
7. 2018-2021
   “Norway-ChINa-JApan Consortium for safe and efficient operations of Health 4.0 (NINJA)” funded by The Norwegian Centre for International Cooperation in Education (No. UTF-2017-four-year/10058) (Co-investigator)
8. 2018-2022
   “Effects of automatic health information collection and feedback for elderly people: Evaluations combined social and human characteristics” funded by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) (No. 18H01654), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Co-investigator)
9. 2016-2017
   “Development of healthcare safety analysis technology using eye-gaze interface: Automatic detection of visual errors” funded by Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research (No. 16K12824), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Co-investigator)
10. 2015-2018
    “Improving communication for an effective and safe patient handoff” funded by Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B) (No. 15K16291), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Principal investigator)
11. 2011-2014
    “Healthcare operations management and international benchmark based on perspectives of stakeholders” funded by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) (No. 23241048), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Co-investigator)

Membership

• Japan Industrial Management Association
• Japan Ergonomics Society
• Japanese Operations Management and Strategy Association
• European Operations Management Association
• American Psychological Association

Social contribution activities

1. Academic journal editor

• Associate Editor, International Journal of Reliability and Safety (2022-)
• Area Editor, Journal of Japan Industrial Management Association (2017-2019)

2. Referee of international journals (SCI/SSCI)

• Journal of Patient Safety
• Journal of Advanced Nursing
• International Journal for Quality in Health Care
• Behaviour and Information Technology
• Cognition, Technology and Work

3. Program/Organizing Committee Member

• The IEEM International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management

Courses

Undergraduate

• Ergonomics (in Japanese)

Graduate school

• Healthcare Quality and Safety (in English)

Honours and awards

• Engineering Education Award, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2023
• Research Exchange Award, Kanto Branch, Japan Industrial Management Association, 2020
• Incentive Award for Young Researchers, School of Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2018 & 2019
• Seiichi Tejima Doctoral Dissertation Award, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2013
• Distinguished Research Paper Award, Graduate School of Decision Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2011
• Japanese Government Scholarship (MEXT), 2007-2012
• Excellent Graduate of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2004

Publications