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MEMBERS

Mar. 1978: B.Ed., Kyoto University
Mar. 1981: M.Ed., Kyoto University
Mar. 1983: Doctoral Candidate, Graduate School of Education, Kyoto University
Apr. 1983: Full-time Lecturer, Department of English, Teikyo Women’s Junior College
Apr. 1985: Lecturer, Faculty of Education, Shiga University
Apr. 1988: Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, Shiga University
Oct. 1996: Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, Kyoto University
Apr. 1998: Associate Professor, Graduate School of Education, Kyoto University
Apr. 2005: Professor, Graduate School of Education, Kyoto University
Apr. 2015–Mar. 2017: Councilor, Education and Research Council, Kyoto University
Apr. 2016: Professor, Graduate School of Education, Kyoto University
Apr. 2016–Mar. 2020: Faculty Consort Director, Division of Education, Kyoto University
Apr. 2017–Mar. 2020: Dean, Graduate School of Education and Faculty of Education, Kyoto University
Oct. 2020–Present: Executive Vice-President, Kyoto University
Apr. 2021–Present: Professor Emeritus, Kyoto University

Mar. 1983: First Faculty of Letters, Waseda University
Mar. 1988: Master’s Degree Program, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University
Mar. 1992: Doctoral Degree Program, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University (withdrawal)
Apr. 1992–Mar. 1994: Research Associate, Faculty of Letters, Kyoto University
Apr. 1994–Mar. 1997: Senior Lecturer (Full-Time), Doshisha Women’s College of Liberal Arts
Apr. 1997–Mar. 1998: Associate Professor, Doshisha Women’s College of Liberal Arts
Apr. 1998–Mar. 2012: Associate Professor, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University
Mar. 2012: Doctor of Letters, Kyoto University
Apr. 2012–Present: Professor, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University
Apr. 2022–Mar. 2024: Dean, Faculty and Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University

Mar. 1987: Faculty of Engineering, Kyoto University
Mar. 1989: Master’s Degree Program, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University
Apr. 1990–Mar. 1996: Assistant Professor, Faculty of Engineering, Kyoto University
Apr. 1996–Mar. 2007: Associate Professor, Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University
Apr. 2007–Oct. 2013: Associate Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University
Oct. 2013–Present: Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University
Apr. 2023–Present: Dean, Faculty and Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University

2008: Academic Award, Japan Society for Natural Disaster Science
2013: FY2012 Continuing International Contribution Award, Japan Society of Civil Engineers
2015: FY2014 Best Paper Award, Japan Society of Civil Engineers
2016: FY2015 Best Paper Award, Japan Society of Civil Engineers
2020: FY2019 Best Paper Award, Japan Society of Civil Engineers
2022: FY2021 Research Excellence Award, Japan Society of Civil Engineers

Mar. 1983: Aioi High School
Mar. 1987: Faculty of Engineering, Kyoto University
Mar. 1989: Master’s Degree Program, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University
Nov. 1990: Research Associate, Faculty of Engineering, Kyoto University
Jun. 1995: Associate Professor, Faculty of Engineering, Kyoto University
Apr. 2003: Professor, Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies, Kyoto University
Jul. 2015–Present: Professor, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University
Apr. 2020–Mar. 2023: Dean, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University
Jan. 2023–Dec. 2024: President, Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA)
Aug. 2023–Aug. 2025: Secretary General, International Speech Communication Association (ISCA)

FY 1997: Awaya Prize, The Acoustical Society of Japan
FY 2000: IPSJ Sakai Special Researcher Award, Information Processing Society of Japan
FY 2011: IPSJ Kiyasu Special Industrial Achievement Award, Information Processing Society of Japan
2012: Awards for Science and Technology (Research Category) of the Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology

Mar. 1982: Division of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, Kyoto University
Mar. 1987: Ph.D., Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University
May 1987: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Physiology, University of California, San Francisco
May 1989: Research Associate, Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Science, Kyoto University
Apr. 1999: Associate Professor, Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University
Aug. 1999: Professor, Institute for Virus Research, Kyoto University
Jan. 2003–Dec. 2024: Associate Editor of Developmental Cell
May 2004–Mar. 2025: Professor, Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University
2016–2019: Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP), Council of Scientists (COS)
Apr. 2023–Mar. 2025: Director, the Center for Living Systems Information Science (CeLiSIS), Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University
Apr. 2024–Present: Research Supervisor, JST PRESTO “Dual biological potentials”
: Member of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan; Japanese Society of Developmental Biologists; Japan Society for Cell Biology; and American Society for Cell Biology

Developmental biology. Recently engaged in research on the mechanism that governs the functions of living creatures from early development to aging and its dependence on the nutritional environment.
Doctor of Science, Kyoto University
Jan. 2025–Present: Editor-in-chief of Genes to Cells, The Molecular Biology Society of Japan

2004: The 1st Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Prize “Studies on Genetic Programs of Cell Polarity Underlying Multicellular Organization”
2009: The 26th Inoue Prize for Science “Controlling Mechanisms of Cell Polarity That Support Functional Expression in Multicellular Systems”