I completed my Bachelor’s degree in Engineering at Chiba University in Japan where I started my research career in the field of vision science. I subsequently obtained a Master’s of Engineering at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. As part of my Master’s programme, I had a chance to spend one year in the United States as a visiting scholar at the University of Washington. Then I moved to Oxford in 2016 to start my DPhil in Experimental Psychology under the supervision of Prof. Hannah E. Smithson.

After the completion of the DPhil in 2020, I became a Junior Research Fellow at Pembroke. I greatly enjoy interactions with undergraduate students in the college during tutorials and when teaching the perception core practicals. I am also passionate about my research – doing research to understand how the human brain generates our sophisticated vision is full of fun and holds many surprises. These days I combine recently advanced deep learning techniques with conventional psychophysical experiments to tackle various research questions in collaboration with Prof. Hannah E. Smithson