Education

2008-2015              The Rockefeller University, New York, NY

Doctor of Philosophy in Biological Sciences
Ph.D. advisor: Dr. Winrich A. Freiwald, Laboratory of Neural Systems
Ph.D. co-advisor: Dr. Marcelo Magnasco, Laboratory of Mathematical Physics
Faculty advisory committee: Dr. Cornelia I. Bargmann and Dr. Charles D. Gilbert
Thesis: Normalization among heterogeneous population confers stimulus discriminability on the macaque face patch neurons

2004-2008              The University of Tokyo, Japan

Bachelor of Science in Biophysics and Biochemistry, March 2008
B.A. advisor: Dr. Hitoshi Sakano
B.A. mentor: Dr. Hirofumi Nishizumi
Thesis: Expression mechanism of mouse odorant receptor gene
GPA: 3.88/4.00
- Attended the Undergraduate Program for Bioinformatics and Systems Biology (2006).