Since 2009, he is the Rapporteur of Question 28 "Multimedia Framework for e-Health Applications" in Study Group 16 of ITU-T. He appeared as speakers at several conferences on e-health, including IEEE-ICC, WSIS, and Telecom World, all in 2011. He actively participated in the collaboration between ITU-T, ITU-D and WHO, and was an active participant in the Joint ITU-WHO Workshop on e-Health Standards and Interoperability, Geneva, 2012.
After joining the Information Science Lab, NTT Basic Research Labs, in 1989, he did research and development in artificial intelligence.
Since 1998 until 2002, he was a research member of "Creating the Brain" Research Project of the JST (Japan Science and Technology Agency)'s CREST ("Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology") Program. He was also a lecturer, 1998-2006, at the School of Allied Health Sciences, Kitasato University, Japan. In 2004, he led the development with the University of Tokyo, Japan, on a health information system using wearable sensors that measured the hippocampal function in the brain to detect early signs of dementia.
He is also a co-chair of ITU-T's Focus Group on Media Accessibility as well as the coordinator of IPTV-Global Standards Initiative.
