Affiliation and Title

Professor,

Department of Architecture and Architectural Engineering,

Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University

Undergraduate Degree

Faculty of Engineering, Kyoto University (1983)

Master's Degree

Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University (1985)

Doctor's Degree

Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University (1985)

Working Experience

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Engineering, Kyoto University (1985-1996)

Visiting Scholar, The University of Iowa (1991-1992)

Associate Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University (1996-2010)

Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, Hiroshima University (2010-2015)

Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University (2015-)

Awards

Maeda Engineering Award, The Maeda Engineering Foundation (1994)

The Encouragement Prize of Architectural Institute of Japan (1996)

Hao Wang Award, COCOON2000 (2000)

The State-of-the-Art in Civil Engineering Award, ASCE (2004)

The Prize of Architectural Institute of Japan for Research Thesis (2008)

The 2014 JACM Fellows Award, Japan Association for Computational Mechanics (2014)

　Best Paper Award, APCS2015 (2015)

　ASSMO Award, Asian Society of Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization (2018)

The 2019 JACM Award for Computational Mechanics, Japan Association for Computational Mechanics (2019)

ASSMO Fellow Award, Asian Society of Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization (2024)

Committee Member

Treasurer, Architectural Institute of Japan

Treasurer, International Association for Shell & Spatial Structures

Member of Executive Council, International Association for Shell & Spatial Structures

Co-Chairman of WG of Computational Methods, International Association for Shell & Spatial Structures

Editorial Board

Optimization and Engineering, Subject Editor (Civil Engineering), Springer

Associate Editor, Mechanics Based Design of Structures and Machines

Review Editor, Computational Methods in Structural Engineering, Frontiers in Built Environment

Review Editor, Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization

Journal of International Association for Shell & Spatial Structures

Member of Editorial Board, Japan Architectural Review, Wiley

Past Appointnent

Vice-President, Architectural Institute of Japan, 2017-2019

Member of Exective Board, Architectural Institute of Japan, 2011-2013

Program Officer, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS),2013-2016

President, Asian Society for Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, 2014-2016