I am a professor at the Research Institute for Applied Mechanics (RIAM) of Kyushu University, Japan. My research interests include diagnostic and modeling studies of observed climate variability and change over the tropics and extratropics, with a particular focus on ocean-atmosphere interaction. I have also reconstructed historical climate datasets from in situ observations including ship and buoy measurements to identify consistent patterns of regional climate variability and change.

Honors
The Young Scientists’ Prize of "Commendations for Science and Technology” from the Japan Ministry of Education,
Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, 2015.
The Okada prize from the Oceanographic Society of Japan, 2013.
The Yamamoto-Shyono Medal from Society of Japan for the 2012 Journal of Climate paper entitled “Regional patterns of
tropical Indo-Pacific climate change: Evidence of the Walker Circulation weakening”, 2012.

Professional Memberships
American Meteorological Society 2008 – present
American Geophysical Union 2002 – present
Meteorological Society of Japan 2000 – present
Oceanographic Society of Japan 2004 – present
Japan Geoscience Union 2017 – present