
| 1994 | Associate Professor, Faculty of Engineering, Kobe University |
| 1997 - 1998 | Research fellow, Alexander von Humboldt, Germany |
| 2005 | Professor, Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University |
| 2012 | Assistant Dean of Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University |
| 2014 | Vice Dean of Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University |
| 2016 | President, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society |
| 2019 | Director, Tough Cyberphysical AI Research Center, Tohoku University |