Employment
- Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan
, 2010-present. - Associate Chair for Graduate Education, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, 2021-2025.
- 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
- Design Automation Award, Design Automation Technical Committee, Design Engineering Division, ASME, 2025.
- 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, Fifth International Symposium on Tools and Methods of Competitive Engineering, 2004
- NSF CAREER, 1999