Ph.D. in Electronic Science and Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan (2004)

Japan Science Technology Agency, Kyoto, Japan (2004-2006)

Invitation fellowship of Foreign research in JSPS (3/2010-2/2011)

Visiting professor in University of Ottawa, Canada (12/2013-08/2014)

Integrated nanophotonics, silicon photonics, photonic crystals

Modeling and simulation of novel photonic circuits, display, and energy

Nanofabrication, measurement of nanophotoic devices

Analysis of Q-factors of structural imperfections in triangular cross-section nanobeam photonic crystal cavities”, Journal of the Optical Society of America B 32, 1792 (2015)

Role of double ITO/In2O3 layer for high efficiency amorphous/crystalline silicon heterojunction solar”, Materials Research Bulletin 58 83-87 (2014)

Suppression of multiple photon absorption in a SiC photonic crystal nanocavity operating at 1.55 μm, Opt. Express 20, 14789 (2012)

Symmetrically glass-clad photonic crystal nanocavities with ultrahigh quality factors, Opt. Lett. 36, 91 (2011).

Magnetic Light-Matter Interactions in a Photonic Crystal Nanocavity, Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 123901(2010).

Resonant-Wavelength Control of Nanocavities by Nanometer-Scaled Adjustment of Two-DimensionalPhotonic Crystal Slab Structures, IEEE Phot. Tech. Lett., 20, 532 (2008).

Ultra-high-Q photonic double-heterostructure nanocavity, Nature Mat. 4, 207 (2005).

High-Q photonic nanocavity in a two-dimensional photonic crystal, Nature 425, 944(2003).

Photonic Devices Based on In-Plane Hetero Photonic Crystals, Science 300, 1537(2003).

Young Scientist Award for the Presentation of an Excellent Paper in the Japan Society of Applied Physics (9/2003)