Here is the full version of my CV in PDF.

Research Interests

• Model-Driven Software Development
• Distributed Systems Middleware (e.g., Service Oriented Architecture)
• Performance Engineering
• Aspect-Oriented Programming/Modeling
• Search-based Software Engineering
• Biologically-inspired Computing
• Wireless Sensor Networks
  

Education

• Ph.D. in Computer Science (Sept 2005 - December 2009)
  Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, Boston
  
  
• M.S. in Computer Science (Apr 2000 - March 2002)
  School of Science for Open and Environmental Systems, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Keio
  
  
• B.S. in Computer Science (Apr 1996 - March 2000)
  Department of Information Computer Science, Keio University, Japan
  

Work Experience

• Researcher, National ICT Australia (Feb 2010 - present)
• Sydney, Australia
• Working in BAI Research Group, Managing Complexity
  
  
• Conjoint Lecturer, U. of New South Wales, Faculty of Engineering (Mar 2010 - present)
  
• Sydney, Australia
  
  
• Technical Director, Object Technology Institute, Inc. (Jan 2004 - Aug 2005)
  
  • Tokyo, Japan
  • Represented the Object Management Group (OMG) in Japan in technical standpoint. Helped the company's clients develop and enhance their enterprise systems with emerging technologies, such as CORBA, UML and MDA, through various educational services. Here is a list of my lectures and invited talks.
  • Published over 90 trade journal papers covering software engineering. Here is a list of my trade journal papers.

• Technical Manager, Object Management Group Japan (Sept 2000 - Dec 2003)
  
  • Tokyo, Japan
  • Transferred OMG's technologies to its members in Japan.
  
  
• Technical Staff, Soken Planning, Co., Ltd. (Apr 2000 - Aug 2000)
  
  • Tokyo, Japan
  • Participated in the company's various consulting and educational projects.
  
  
• Lead Programmer, Planet Computer, Co., Ltd. (Oct 1997 - Mar 2000)
  
  • Kanagawa, Japan
  • Developed various office productivity products on Adobe Acrobat, such as multi-user layer management systems, drawing tools and printing management systems.

Honors and Awards

• Research Excellence Award, First Place (May 2008)
  First Annual Doctoral Research Symposium, University of Massachusetts Boston, Department of Computer Science. Presentation tile: Aspect-Oriented Programming for Non-Functional Properties in Service Oriented Business Processes.
  
  
• Best Student Paper Award (Jul 2007)
  4th IEEE International Conference on Services Computing, July 2007. Paper Title: A Feature Modeling Support for Non-Functional Constraints in Service Oriented Architecture. This was one of the two best paper awards of 29 accepted papers. This conference's paper acceptance rate was 20%.
  
  
• Best Student Paper Award (Sept 2006)
  Doctoral Symposium of the 30th IEEE International Conference on Computer Software and Applications Conference, Chicago, IL. Paper title: A Domain Specific Modeling Framework for Secure Network Applications
  
  
• Best Paper Award (Jul 2005)
  9th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, Florida, USA. Paper Title: A Model Transformation Framework for Domain Specific Languages: An Approach Using UML and Attribute-Oriented Programming
  
  
• Best Paper Award (Mar 2005)
  JSSST Conference on Systems for Programming and Applications 2005, Gunma, Japan. Paper title: A Model Transformation Framework for Domain Specific Languages: An Approach Using UML and Attribute-Oriented Programming
  
  
• Best Undergraduate Student Award (Mar 2000)
  Received the Fujiwara Award, the best undergraduate student award, from Department of Information and Computer Science, Keio University. Selected as the best student out of 120 students based on GPA score, research performance, academic leadership and other achievements.