Professor at the Space Transportation Engineering Laboratory of Chiba Institute of Technology. Received his PhD (Aerospace Engineering) from the Graduate University for Advanced Studies. In 2018, he successfully launched a small rocket from his university at sea, and in 2023, he developed a small sounding rocket capable of reaching the stratosphere and launched it at sea. At the same time, he is engaged in research into rocket air launch systems, and joined AstroX to realize air launch of rockets from balloons.