Recently, he has centered on design and control of new weld interface during welding of dissimilar materials. He has received a number of awards including Kihara Award from Association for Weld Joining Technology Promotion in 2008, Prof. Koichi Masubuchi Award from AWS in 2009, Murakami Young Researcher Award from the Japan Institute of Metals in 2010, Aoba Foundation Award in 2010, Honda Memorial Young Researcher Award in 2011, and The Japan Institute of Metals and Materials Meritorious Award in 2015. He has authors or coauthors more than 250 papers in peer-reviewed journals and proceedings.