Career

Education

• Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Space Engineering from Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, March, 2003
• M.Sc. in Aeronautics and Space Engineering from Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, March, 2000
• B.Sc. in Aeronautics and Space Engineering from Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, March, 1998

Experience

• 01/2006-Present, Research Assistant Professor
  Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA
• 05/2003-12/2005, Postdoctoral Fellow
  Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA
• 04/2002-05/2003, Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science for Young Scientists
  Dept. of Aeronautics and Space Engineering, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
• 06/2001-09/2001, Summer Intern
  Bombardier Aerospace, Toronto, Canada

Awards

• Best Poster Picture Award, 17th International Meshing Roundtable, Pittsburgh, PA, October 2008.
• Postdoctoral Career Enhancement Award, Office of Postdoctoral Education, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, August 2004
• Tohoku University President's Award, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, March 2003
• Second Place in the Grid Poster Competition, 8th International Conference on Numerical Grid Generation in Computational Field Simulations, Honolulu, HI, June 2002.
• First Place in the Grid Poster Competition, 7th International Conference on Numerical Grid Generation in Computational Field Simulations, Whistler, Canada, September 2000.
• Best Presentation Award for Students, 8th International Symposium on Computational Fluid Dynamics, Bremen, Germany, September 1999.

Professional Activities

Society Memberships

• Senior Member, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

Journal Reviewer

• AIAA Journal
• Applied Numerical Mathematics
• Computer-Aided Design
• Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering
• Computers & Fluids
• Computers & Geosciences
• Engineering with Computers
• Finite Elements in Analysis and Design
• International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering
• International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids
• Journal of Computing & Information Science in Engineering
• Mathematics and Computers in Simulation

Conferences

• Reviewer, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) conferences
• Reviewer, International Meshing Roundtable (2004-)
• Committee member, International Meshing Roundtable (2009-)

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