Education Bachelor, Master, Ph. D in Applied Mathematics from Kyoto University Job career Researcher at NTT Laboratory Assistant Professor, Professor at Ibaraki University Professor at University of Canterbury Temporary appointments Visiting Professor at University of Alabama at Birmingham Professor at Osaka University Academic activities Member of the ACM Member of Information Processing Society of Japan Organizing and Program chair of ISAAC 2001 Guest Editor of Algorithmica Research areas Shortest paths, combinatorial generation, priority queues, maximum sum/subarray algorithms