Completed a doctoral program at the Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University. Holds a Ph.D. in Human and Environmental Studies.
Specializes in quantitative linguistics, corpus linguistics, Japanese language education, applied linguistics, and cognitive linguistics.
Has held research positions at the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology and the Japan Foundation, and served as associate professor at the University of Tsukuba. Since 2016, he has held his current position.
Former board member of the Mathematical Linguistics Society, councilor of the Society for Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language, and overseas director of the Korean Association of Japanese Education.
Recipient of the 2014 Encouragement Award from the Society for Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language.
He is known for cutting-edge research on AI-based language education and learning, including works such as "AIで言語教育は終わるのか?: 深まる外国語の教え方と学び方" (Will AI End Language Teaching? : The Deepening Teaching and Learning of Foreign Languages) and "データ科学×日本語教育" (Data Science × Japanese Language Education).