He received his Ph.D from Kyushu University, Japan in 1998 under the guidance of Prof. Takeji Hashimoto (Kyoto University, Japan). He is currently the spokesperson of the Advanced Polymers Beamline (X27C) at National Synchrotron Light Source and the research member of the Advanced Soft Material Beamline Consortium, Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute, SPring-8 (Japan). He received the NSF CAREER award for his work on green polymer surface processing using supercritical carbon dioxide in 2009.