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After living in Japan during my High School years, I attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and graduated with B.S. in Brain and Cognitive Sciences in May 1993. I then moved to back to Japan thanks to an MIT-Japan Program internship at NTT. In the Visual Media Group of the Human Interface Research Laboratories, I served as a software developer/researcher for the group, co-developing a large scale, real-time, virtual reality communications environment called Interspace.
I left NTT after one year, and founded one of the first web development companies in Japan, Eccosys Co, Ltd. (1994 - 1997), launching many projects, including: building one of the first content sites in Japan Site and many others, producing a large Internet event called the Junior Summit, sponsored by Mr. Okawa of CSK, and producing parts of the Internet Work Expo in Japan in 1996.
In a 1997 merger, Eccosys became part of Digital Garage Inc., and from that point on, I served as member of board of directors, involved in defining DG's technological direction and international business strategy.
In Oct of 2003, I moved to Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, I began my graduate studies at the University of Alberta. My research touched on high-dimensional models of lexical semantics, and probabilistic models of language comprehension and production. I completed my Master's and Doctoral programs in psychology between 2004 and 2012.
From 2012 until 2015 was a post-doctoral in Harald Baayen's lab at the University of Tuebingen. There I did research on error-driven models of learning, with an emphasis on models that combined sub-lexical and super-lexical information to understand the meaning of language.
From 2015 to 2017 I worked at Landmark College, where I did research on the impact of affect on learning, the impact of brain-games on memory and the use of VR to teach stats to students with math learning differences.
In 2018 I began working on Leela AI. We are building a revolutionary solution that will change the way people think about and use AI.
Stuff I do for fun: Cooking, photography, guitar, synths, mountain biking