Professor
Department of Information and Communication Sciences,
Faculty of Science and Technology, Sophia University
Tokyo, JAPAN
· Work Experience
o April 2021 – Present: Vice President, Sophia University
o April 2010 – Present: Professor, Sophia University
o April 2002 – March 2010: Associate Professor, Sophia University
o April 1999 – March 2002: Lecturer, Sophia University
o April 1998 – March 1999: Research Assistant, Waseda University
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Degree obtained (Year)
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Doctor of Engineering, Waseda University (1998)
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Master of Engineering, Waseda University (1995)
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Bachelor of Engineering, Waseda University (1993)
· Awards/Honors
o Paper Encouragement Award, Japan Industrial Management Association
(2006)
o Paper Award, Society of Plant Engineers Japan (2007)
o Kimura Award, Transdisciplinary Federation of Science and Technology
(2013)
o Attractive Lecture Award, Faculty of Science and Technology, Sophia University
(2017)
o Best Presentation Award, Industrial Engineering and Operations
Management (2018)
o Distinguished Research Award, Japan Industrial Management
Association (2018)
o Paper Encouragement Award, Japan Industrial Management Association (2018)
o Best Track Paper Award, The third European International Conference
on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management (2019)
o Best Paper Award, The 20th Asia Pacific Industrial Engineering and
Management Systems, (2019)
o Attractive Lecture Award, Faculty of Science and Technology, Sophia
University (2020)
o Distinguished Research Award, Japan Industrial Management
Association (2018)
o Special Contribution Award, Japan Industrial Management Association (2021)
o Attractive Lecture Award, Faculty of Science and Technology, Sophia
University (2021)
o Good Practice Award, Sophia University (2021)
o o Attractive Lecture
Award, Faculty of Science and Technology, Sophia University (2023)
o Outstanding Paper Award, The 23rd Asia Pacific Industrial
Engineering and Management System Conference APIEMS 2023, Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia (2023)
o Excellent Paper of Industry-Academia Collaboration Forum, The Asian Conference of Management Science and Applications 2023, Okinawa, Japan (2023)
· Research Interests
o Industrial and Systems Engineering
o Production and logistics system
o Supply chain management/ Relief supply chain management
o Facility logistics, Material handling, Order picking in warehouse
o Production Scheduling, Inventory control
· Membership in professional society
o IISE: Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (USA)
o INFORMS: Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (USA)
o Japan Industrial Management Association (JIMA)
o Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers (JSME)
o Operations Research Society of Japan (ORSJ)
o Scheduling Society of Japan (SSJ)
· Lecturers
o Systems Engineering
o Operations Research
o Production Engineering
o Management Statistics
· List of Publications
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Papers