Education
04/2014–03/2017 PhD in Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Chiba University, Japan
千葉大学大学院工学研究科人工システム科学専攻電気電子系コース博士後期課程
04/2012–03/2014 Master of Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Chiba University, Japan
千葉大学大学院工学研究科人工システム科学専攻電気電子系コース博士前期課程
04/2008–03/2012 Bachelor of Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Chiba University, Japan
千葉大学工学部電気電子工学科
Work Experiences
07/2022–present Lecturer, Department of Computer Science, University College London, UK
英国ユニバーシティ・カレッジ・ロンドン, コンピュータサイエンス学科, 講師
07/2020–06/2022 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Computer Science, University College London, UK
英国ユニバーシティ・カレッジ・ロンドン, コンピュータサイエンス学科, ポスドク研究員
04/2019–06/2020 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Engineering and Informatics, University of Sussex, UK
英国サセックス大学情報工学科, ポスドク研究員
01/2019–03/2019 Rutherford Research Fellow, School of Engineering and Informatics, University of Sussex, UK
英国サセックス大学情報工学科, Rutherford研究員
04/2018–12/2018 JSPS Research Fellow (PD), Faculty of Industrial Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science, Japan
東京理科大学基礎工学部, 日本学術振興会特別研究員 PD
04/2018–09/2018 Visiting Research Fellow, School of Engineering and Informatics, University of Sussex, UK
英国サセックス大学情報工学科, 滞在研究員
04/2017–03/2018 JSPS Research Fellow (PD), Graduate School of Engineering, Chiba University, Japan
千葉大学大学院工学研究科, 日本学術振興会特別研究員 PD
04/2015–03/2017 JSPS Research Fellow (DC2), Graduate School of Engineering, Chiba University, Japan
千葉大学大学院工学研究科, 日本学術振興会特別研究員 DC2 (2016年度からは育志賞特別枠)
12/2014–03/2015 Research Assistant of the ImPACT Program, Graduate School of Engineering, Chiba University, Japan
千葉大学大学院工学研究科, 革新的研究開発推進プログラム (ImPACT) リサーチアシスタント
10/2014–03/2015 Teaching Assistant, Faculty of Engineering, Chiba University, Japan
千葉大学工学部, ティーチングアシスタント (電気電子工学実験Ⅲ)
07/2013–10/2014 Student Assistant, Academic Link Center, Chiba University, Japan
千葉大学アカデミックリンクセンター, スチューデントアシスタント
Grants and Awards
08/2023–04/2024 Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF), UCL, No. 578996, £30K, PI
‘Commercialising AcoustoFab: Engaging customers in multi-material contactless fabrication’
12/2022–11/2023 Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF), UCL, No. 574843, £5K, CoI
‘Acoustophoretic multi-material contactless manufacturing’
09/2022–08/2027 UKRI Frontier Research Guarantee Grant for ERC StG, EP/X019519/1, UKRI, €1.5M, PI
‘FabDisp: Acoustic holography for multimodal 3D display and fabrication’
04/2018–12/2018 Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows No. 18J01002, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, ¥1.3M (~£9.7K) + salary (~£24.2K)
日本学術振興会, 特別研究員奨励費 PD
02/2018 Inoue Research Award for Young Scientists, Inoue Foundation for Science, ¥500K (~£3.7K)
公益財団法人井上科学振興財団, 井上研究奨励賞
01/2018 Young Researcher Award, Kenjiro Takayanagi Foundation, ¥2M (~£14.9K)
公益財団法人高柳健次郎財団, 研究奨励賞
03/2017 President Award for the Excellent Record, Chiba University
千葉大学, 成績優秀賞 (学長表彰)
03/2017 Dean Award for the Excellent Record, Graduate School of Engineering, Chiba University
千葉大学大学院工学研究科, 工学研究科長賞
12/2016 GP Research Program to Support Sending Graduate Students Abroad, Chiba University, ¥136K (~£1.0K)
千葉大学, グローバルプロミネント研究基幹・若手先導人材育成支援プログラム
10/2016 Program to Support Sending Graduate Students Abroad, Chiba University, ¥136K (~£1.0K)
千葉大学, 大学院生等の海外派遣支援プログラム
04/2016–03/2018 Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows No. 16J30007, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, ¥2.3M (~£17.1K) + salary (~£35.7K)
日本学術振興会, 特別研究員奨励費 DC2 (育志賞特別枠)
03/2016 JSPS Ikushi Prize, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, ¥2M (~£14.9K)
日本学術振興会, 育志賞
06/2015 KONICA MINOLTA Science and Technology Foundation Award, The Optical Society of Japan, ¥50K (~£0.4K)
日本光学会, コニカミノルタ光みらい学生奨励金
05/2015 Scholarship Loan Forgiveness for Academic Excellence (Full Amount), Japan Student Services Organization
日本学生支援機構, 特に優れた業績による返還免除 (全額)
03/2015 Best Poster Award (FORUM 8 Award), Computer Graphic Arts Society
映像表現・科学芸術フォーラム2015, 人材育成パートナー企業賞 (フォーラムエイト)
01/2015 Outstanding Paper Award for Young C&C Researchers, NEC C&C Foundation, ¥200K (~£1.5K)
公益財団法人NEC C&C財団, 若手優秀論文賞
04/2015–03/2016 Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows No. 15J07684, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, ¥1.2M (~£9.0K) + salary (~£17.9K)
日本学術振興会, 特別研究員奨励費 DC2
05/2014 Scholarship Loan Forgiveness for Academic Excellence (Full Amount), Japan Student Services Organization.
日本学生支援機構, 特に優れた業績による返還免除 (全額)
04/2014 Program to Support Sending Graduate Students Abroad, Chiba University, ¥150K (~£1.1K)
千葉大学, 大学院生等の海外派遣支援プログラム
04/2014 Grants for Researchers Attending International Conferences, NEC C&C Foundation, ¥200K (~£1.5K)
公益財団法人NEC C&C財団, 前期国際会議論文発表者助成
03/2014 President Award for the Excellent Record, Chiba University
千葉大学, 成績優秀賞 (学長表彰)
03/2014 Dean Award for the Excellent Record, Graduate School of Engineering, Chiba University
千葉大学大学院工学研究科, 工学研究科長賞
Exhibitions and Workshops
09/2024 Maker Faire Tokyo 2024, ‘Acoustic liquid handling device’.
01/2024 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2024, ‘AcoustoFab’.
11/2023 Royal Academy of Engineering, Innovation Late, ‘Acoustic levitation demo’.
02/2023 RCA/UCL Workshop, ‘Contactless 3D Material Placement’.
11/2022 Royal Academy of Engineering, Research Forum 2022, ‘Levitation Demonstration’.
10/2022 New Scientist Live 2022, ‘Interactive acoustic levitation’.
10/2019 New Scientist Live 2019, ‘Demonstration of acoustic levitation’.
Media
02/2024 DG Lab Haus, ‘CES2024で出会った英国スタートアップ 触れずに動かす技術はまるで魔法’.
04/2022 BBC Earth Kids, ‘Can sound kill you?’.
09/2021 New Scientist Video, ‘Watch sonic tractor beams lift and manipulate objects with sound waves’.
09/2020 IEEE Signal Processing Magazine (Technical Magazine), ‘Three New Imaging Technologies That Are Worth a Look’.
02/2020 El Hormiguero 3.0 (Prime-time Spanish TV show), ‘LEVITACIÓN ACÚSTICA’.
11/2019 ITV News (British TV show), ‘How holograms could be the future of medicine, advertising and entertainment’.
11/2019 BBC Radio (British radio channel), ‘Science in Action’.
11/2019 Nature News feature, ‘Star Wars-style 3D images created from single speck of foam,’ Nature 575, 272–273 (2019).
11/2019 Nature Asia, Research highlights, ‘Physics: A sound design for 3D displays’.
11/2019 Nature Japan, 注目のハイライト, ‘【物理学】視覚・聴覚・触覚コンテンツを同時に生成できる3次元ディスプレイ’.
11/2019 The Guardian (British Newspaper), ‘Hologram-like device animates objects using ultrasound waves’.
11/2019 Discover Magazine (American science magazine), ‘With a Floating Bead, This Device Makes Truly 3D Holographs’.
11/2019 Scientific American (American science magazine), ‘Hearing Is Seeing: Sound Waves Create a 3-D Display’.
11/2019 Science Magazine (News site of AAAS), ‘See the new Star Wars–like display that could ‘revolutionize’ virtual reality’.
11/2019 NBC News (American news site), ‘With a single bead of plastic, scientists tease interactive 3D’.
11/2019 NewScientist (British science magazine), ‘We can now make animated ‘sound holograms’ that you can touch’.
11/2019 日本経済新聞 (Japanese Newspaper), ‘立体映像とともに音・触感を再現 英大学が技術’.
11/2019 Dagens Nyheter (Swedish Newspaper), ‘Ny teknik skapar 3D-bilder som låter och känns’.
11/2019 NRC Handelsblad (Dutch Newspaper), ‘3D-beeld gevangen in geluidsgolven’.
11/2019 Neue Zürcher Zeitung (Swiss Newspaper), ‘Fast ein richtiges Holodeck’.
11/2019 Frankfurter Allgemeine FAZ.NET (German science news site), ‘Ein 3D-Display aus der Zukunft’.
11/2019 Physics World (International science news site), ‘Ultrasound device creates an audio, visual and tactile 3D display’.
11/2019 ITmedia News (Japanese news site), ‘3D画像、触覚、音を空中に同時生成 超音波ディスプレイ、東京理科大など開発’.
11/2019 The Telegraph (British news site), ‘Scientists close to creating Star Wars Princess Leia hologram’.
11/2019 CNET (YouTube channel of American news media), ‘You can feel and hear these holograms’.
11/2019 SciShow (YouTube channel), ‘A Potential New Staph Vaccine and Touchable 'Holograms'’.
11/2019 Cité des sciences et de l'industrie (French museum website), ‘Du virtuel au bout des doigts!’.
10/2019 OSA Publishing, Image of the Week, ‘Projection of multiple directional images on a volume structure with refractive surfaces’.
04/2016 OSA Publishing, Image of the Week, ‘Image quality improvement for a 3D structure exhibiting multiple 2D patterns and its implementation’.
03/2016 科学新聞 (Japanese Scientific newspaper) ‘育志賞—18人に’.
09/2015 TBS, 未来の起源 (Japanese TV show) ‘光で制御する立体ディスプレイ’.
04/2015 日経産業新聞 (Japanese Newspaper), ‘紫外線当て3D表示—千葉大など装置考案’.
02/2015 日刊工業新聞 (Japanese Newspaper), ‘光を当てると各面に異なる画像を表示—千葉大, 新原理の立体ディスプレー開発’.
02/2015 Nature Japan, 注目の論文, ‘技術:量子ドットを使った立体ディスプレーの設計、実現、および特性評価’.
09/2013 テレビ東京, ワールドビジネスサテライト (Japanese TV show), ‘場所で見え方変わる—立体ディスプレイ’.
09/2013 日刊工業新聞 (Japanese Newspaper), ‘見る位置で違う映像に—千葉大ディスプレイ開発’.
06/2011 日刊工業新聞 (Japanese Newspaper), ‘見る方向で違い—千葉大技術開発’.