Employment
- Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan
, 2010-present - Founding member and CEO, Comnext, Inc.
, 2007-2012 - Professeur invité, École Centrale Paris
, 2011-2012 - Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, 2003-2010
- Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, 1997-2003
Education
- PhD, MIT
, Mechanical Engineering, 1996 - MS, MIT, Mechanical Engineering, 1992
- BS (hon.), University of Tokyo
, Mechanical Engineering, 1990
Honors and Awards
- IEEE Fellow, 2018.
- Kos-Ishii Toshiba Award, Design for Manufacturing and the Life Cycle Technical Committee, Design Engineering Division, ASME, 2015.
- Innovative Design Component Award, Lightweighting Technologies Enabling Comprehensive Automotive Redesign (LITECAR) Challenge, Local Motors and ARPA-E, 2015.
- ASME Fellow, 2013
- Achievement Award, Design and Systems Division, The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2011
- Outstanding Achievement Award, Department of Mechancial Engineering, 2007
- Best Paper Award Finalist, IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, 2006
- Best Paper Award Finalist, EcoDesign 2005: 4th International Symposium on Environmentally Conscious Design and Inverse Manufacturing, 2005
- Best Paper Award, Fifth International Symposium on Tools and Methods of Competitive Engineering, 2004
- NSF CAREER, 1999