AffiliationAffiliation
- 2023.4 –Assistant Professor, Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, The University of Tokyo (Naemura Lab / Kuzuoka, Narumi & Tanikawa Labs)
- 2024.4 –Affiliated Faculty, Graduate School of Design Engineering, Hosei University
EducationEducation
- 2020.4 – 2023.3Ph.D. (Interdisciplinary Information Studies), Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, The University of Tokyo.
Dissertation: "A Study on the Transformation of Narrative Self through Avatar Experience" - 2018.4 – 2020.3M.S., Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, The University of Tokyo
- 2014.4 – 2018.3B.Eng., Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, The University of Tokyo
GrantsGrants
- 2026.4 – 2027.3Tateisi Science and Technology Foundation Research Grant, "Information Environment Design Based on the Control of Serendipity" (Principal Investigator) — ¥2,700k
- 2025.12 – 2031.3JST ASPIRE, "Enhancing Humanity: An International Research Network for the Social Implementation of Next-Generation Body Augmentation Technologies that Embrace Diverse Embodiments" (Co-Principal Investigator; PI: Kouta Minamizawa)
- 2025.12 – 2026.3UTokyo Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies Startup Fund, "Building an AI Infrastructure to Support Ethnography" (Principal Investigator) — ¥320k
- 2025.10 – 2029.3JST PRESTO, "Creating Embodied Interactions that Foster Reinterpretation of the Past, Present, and Future" (Principal Investigator, JPMJPR25I7) — ¥40,000k
- 2025.4 – 2026.3JST CREST Young Researcher Challenge (Development of a VR Platform for Auditory and Visual Hallucination Experiences, Principal Investigator) — ¥2,000k
- 2023 –JST CREST, "Elucidating the Principles of Cognitive Feeling that Mediate Perception and Emotion" (Research Collaborator; PI: Yukie Nagai)
- 2024.4 – 2026.3JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists, "Developing Methods for Reinterpreting the Past through Editing and Re-experiencing Spatiotemporal Archives of Virtual Environments" (Principal Investigator) — ¥3,600k
- 2022.4 – 2024.3JSPS Research Fellowship for Young Scientists (DC2, Principal Investigator)
- 2020 –JST Moonshot R&D Program, Goal 1, "Cybernetic being" (PM: Kouta Minamizawa / Research Collaborator)
AwardsAwards
- 2026Funai Research Incentive Award
- 2025Honorable Mention Award, IEEE VR 2025 (IEEE TVCG — sense of agency in shared avatars)
- 2023Best Paper Award, IEEE VR 2023 (IEEE TVCG — motor skill learning through co-embodiment)
- 2022VRSJ Paper Award, Virtual Reality Society of Japan (self-distancing through third-person perspective manipulation of one's own avatar)
Academic & Social ActivityAcademic & Social Activity
- 2026 –Editorial Committee, Journal of the Human Interface Society
- 2026 –Steering Committee, SIGHCI, IPSJ
- 2025 –UTokyo AI Center, Next-Generation AI Response Research & Education Strategy Headquarters
- 2025 –UTokyo Chaos Camp, Secretariat / Cooperating Faculty
- 2025 –Editorial Committee, IPSJ Magazine
- 2023 –Assistant Secretary, IEICE MVE Technical Committee
- 2023 –Executive Committee, IVRC Metaverse Division
- 2023 –Public Relations Subcommittee, IPSJ
- 2023 –Editorial Committee, VRSJ Journal
- 2020 –Secretariat, Reality Science Lab, Digital Hollywood University
- 2020 – 2023Research Division Mentor, N High School (Kadokawa Dwango Educational Institute)
- 2019 – 2021Secretariat, XR Kaigi
- 2018 – 2023Student Editorial Committee, IPSJ Magazine
- 2017 – 2023Founding Member, UTokyo VR Circle "UT-virtual"