2022-08: Encouragement Award from the Japanese Bookkeeping Society - For 'Historical Development and Future Directions of Momentum Accounting Research' (co-authored with Yumika Koike)
2021-05: Best Paper Award at the Service Society Conference - For 'The Effect of Skilled Salesperson's Voice Imitation Skills in Retail Stores'
2021-04: Educational Contribution Award from the Graduate School of Systems and Information Engineering, University of Tsukuba
2021-03: Engineering Education Award (Performance Category) - For the establishment and operation of the innovative 'Service Engineering Degree Program'
2020-06: Best Poster Award from the Service Society - For 'Data Utilization Support for Frailty Prevention Policy Formulation in Local Governments'
2019-08: Highly Commended Award - For 'Effects of Customer’s Actorship in the Service System: Evidence from Home Delivery Service in Japan'
2016-09: Leisure Tourism Society Award - For 'Service Reengineering' (edited by Yoshihiro Ito, 2016)
2016-02: Best Faculty Member and SS Evaluation Faculty, University of Tsukuba
2013-05: Publication Grant from the Melco Academic Promotion Foundation - For the study group on 'Management Accounting Transformation' of the Japanese Accounting Research Association
2011-01-12: Encouragement Award from the Graduate School of Systems and Information Engineering, University of Tsukuba
2010-09-08: Award from the Japanese Accounting Research Association - For 'Role Expectations in Service Cost Planning' (published in 'Kaikei')
2009-09-03: Publication Grant from the Industrial Management Association - For the third topic research committee of the Japanese Accounting Research Association on 'Introduction and Development of Cost Accounting'
2008-04-09: Educational Contribution Award from the Graduate School of Systems and Information Engineering, University of Tsukuba
Research Experience
2006-04 to 2006-10: Junior Fellow (Contract Lecturer) at the Graduate School of Commerce and Management, Hitotsubashi University
2006-11 to 2010-10: Lecturer at the Graduate School of Systems and Information Engineering, University of Tsukuba
2010-05 to 2023-03: Visiting Associate Professor at the Institute of Statistical Mathematics
2010-11 to 2011-09: Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Systems and Information Engineering, University of Tsukuba
2011-10 to 2023-01: Associate Professor at the Faculty of Systems and Information, University of Tsukuba
2015-01 to present: Coordinator for Big Data CoE in Service Engineering, University of Tsukuba
2015-04 to present: Non-executive Director, Qingguo Scholarship Foundation (Publicly recognized since April 2016)
2016-06 to present: Non-executive Director, Mito Credit Bank
2017-04 to present: Head of Service Engineering Field, Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Research Section, AI Science Center, University of Tsukuba
2017-07 to 2020-06: Financial Advisor, City of Joso, Ibaraki Prefecture
Background
Research interests include accounting, web informatics and service informatics, social system engineering and safety systems. Main research directions are business intelligence, accounting information science, service engineering, social data science, and social engineering.