After graduating from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Tohoku University, He joined Hitachi Ltd. He became a professor at the Faculty of Engineering Iwate University in 2004. In 2006 he was a professor at Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University. Ph.D. He is conducting research on metallic materials processing such as the development of new alloys for metal alloys and electron beam additive manufacturing technology for that purpose.