CV

Education

• 2001 Doctor of Philosophy in Science Degree (Tohoku University, September 19)
• Doctoral Thesis "The Pursuit of Non-Gaussian Fluctuations in the Cosmic Microwave Background", 129 pages
  [astro-ph/0206039].
• Supervisor: Toshifumi Futamase (Tohoku University)
• Co-Supervisor: David N. Spergel (Princeton University)
• 1999 Master of Science Degree (Tohoku University, March 31)
• Master Thesis "Cosmic Background Radiation" (in Japanese), 286 pages.
• Appendices "Gauge-invariant General-relativistic Perturbation Theory and Light Propagation" (in Japanese), 77 pages.
• Supervisor: Toshifumi Futamase (Tohoku University)
• 1997 Bachelor of Science Degree (Tohoku University, March 31)

• 2008- Associate Professor (The University of Texas at Austin)
• 2003-2008 Assistant Professor (The University of Texas at Austin)
• 2001-2003 MAP Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Princeton University)
• 2000-2001 Visiting Member (Institute for Advanced Study)
• 1999-2000 Visiting Student Research Collaborator (Princeton University)
• 1997-1998 Teaching Assistant (Tohoku University)

• 2008 The International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) Young Physicist's Prize (December)
• 2007 NASA Group Achievement Award (for WMAP) (May 14)
• 2007 College of Natural Sciences Teaching Excellence Award (University of Texas at Austin, March 28)
• 2006 Morita Memorial Award (Tohoku University, October 28)
• 2005-present Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow
• 2004 NASA Group Achievement Award (for WMAP) (August 24)
• 2004 The Astronomical Society of Japan Young Astronomer Award [an annual prize equivalent to Helen B. Warner Prize in the American Astronomical Society] (The Astronomical Society of Japan, March 22)
• 2000 Aoba Society for the Promotion of Science Prize [for outstanding graduate students] (Tohoku University, March 14)
• 1999-2001 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellow

• 10/1/08 - 9/30/11: PI, "The Physics of Inflation: Non-Gaussianity, Reheating and Preheating," NSF/Theoretical Physics, $90,000
• 6/1/08 - 4/15/09: Sub-contract, "Inflation Studies with One- and a Two-Channel Cosmic Inflation Probe," Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, $146,326 [PI: Gary Melnick]
• 6/1/08 - 5/31/11: PI, "Modeling the Power Spectrum in High-Redshift Surveys," NASA/Astrophysics Theory and Fundamental Physics, $344,761 [Co-Is: Volker Bromm and Avi Loeb]
• 10/1/07 - 9/31/08: PI, "Anisotropy in the Cosmic Near Infrared Background: Simulations vs Observations," Spitzer Cycle 4 Theoretical Research Proposal, California Institute of Technology, and Jet Propulsion Laboratory, $74,999 [Co-Is: Elizabeth R. Fernandez and Paul R. Shapiro]
• 6/1/07 - 5/31/08: Sub-contract, "Mission Operations Oversight, Data Analysis, Systematic Error Analysis, Foreground Analysis, and Other Principal Investigtor Functions for the Wilkinson Anisotropy Probe," Johns Hopkins University, $51,379 [PI: Charles L. Bennett]
• 6/1/06 - 5/31/07: Sub-contract, "Mission Operations Oversight, Data Analysis, Systematic Error Analysis, Foreground Analysis, and Other Principal Investigtor Functions for the Wilkinson Anisotropy Probe," Johns Hopkins University, $33,066 [PI: Charles L. Bennett]
• 9/16/05 - 9/15/09: "Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship," Alfred P. Sloan Research Foundation, $45,000

• The American Astronomical Society (AAS)
• The American Physical Society (APS)
• The Astronomical Society of Japan (ASJ)
• The Physical Society of Japan (JPS)

• Referee, The Astrophysical Journal
• Referee, The Astrophysical Journal Letters
• Referee, Physical Review D
• Referee, Physical Review Letters
• Referee, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
• Referee, Journal of High Energy Physics
• Peer Review, NASA Astrophysics Theory
• Peer Review, NSF CAREER Award
• Peer Review, NSF Physics Frontier Center

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