He received his B.S. (1997) and M.S. (1998) in information engineering, and his Ph.D. (2001) in informatics from Kyoto University. Prior to his current position, he was a researcher (2001-2012) at Internet Systems Research Laboratories and a principal researcher at Cloud System Research Laboratories (2012-2013.1) in NEC Corporation, and worked on the topics including service platform architecture. He was awarded from Japan Institute of Invention and Innovation for his patent of service platform for mobile devices (2010). Currently he is responsible for Open Innovation Practice in Kyoto University Design School, which aims to develop skills for organizing a team of specialists. Since 2016, he has been a chairperson of the promotion committee of the Design Innovation Consortium, an organization for industry-government-academia collaboration.