Current Affiliation
■ Director, Hokkaido Research Center of Geology, a non-profit organization.
■ Visiting Investigator, Earth and Planetary Laboratory, Carnegie Institution for Science, Washington DC.
■ Visiting Researcher, Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo.

Field of Expertise
■ Geophysics (Seismology), Statistical Modeling, Discovery Science.
■ Doctor of Science (Hokkaido University), 1990.

Brief Curriculum Vitae
■ Born in Taiyuan, China in October 1945.
■ March 1971 Completed Master’s course in Geophysics, Hokkaido University.
■ April 1973 Research Assistant, Urakawa Seismological Observatory, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University.
■ October 1990 Postdoctoral Fellow, Carnegie Institution of Washington – March 31, 1993.
■ April 1999 Associate Professor, Institution of Seismology and Volcanology, Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University.
■ May 2009 Visiting Investigator, Carnegie Institution of Washington – March 31, 2011.
■ April 2011 Visiting Professor, Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo – March 31, 2013.
■ July 2012 Deputy Chief Scientist, Headquarters of the Society for the Promotion of Earthquake Prediction Research – March 31, 2013.
■ April 2013 Visiting Researcher, The Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Research Organization of Information and Systems, Inter-University Research Institute – July 31, 2013.
■ April 2013 Visiting Researcher, Earthquake Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, – July 31, 2013.
■ August 2013 Visiting Researcher, Earth & Planets Laboratory, Carnegie Institution for Science, Washington, DC. – to the present.
■ December 2014 Deputy Chief Senior Researcher, Headquarters of the Society for the Promotion of Earthquake Prediction and Research.
■ April 2015, Visiting Researcher, Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo. to the present.
■ April 2018 Director, Hokkaido Center for Integrated Geological Research, a non-profit organization, to the present.
(Stated on April 1, 2024)