BIO
I am originally from Tokyo, Japan, and started my academic journey in the United States after high school. I earned my B.S. in Physics and Minor in Astrophysics from the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 2016, and my M.A. and Ph.D. in Physics with Astrophysics Emphasis from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2019 and 2021, respectively, where I worked with Prof. Andy Howell on supernovae and gravitational-wave events using the global telescope network of Las Cumbres Observatory. I was then a postdoctoral research fellow at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian before joining the University of Florida as an Assistant Professor in 2025.