is a Japanese part-time author. He is an author of unique three-volume high-school Math textbooks (in Japanese) titled ''Seishun High-School Mathematics'' and a technical book on

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(CFD) titled ''I do like CFD, VOL.1''. He is also a singer and songwriter with over 100 songs written so far (2003–2009). Other creations such as Kanji-humanoids can be found at his official website. He also runs a Japanese school at his home to establish a new style oversea Japanese education.Yedial Japanese School (founded by Katate Masatsuka)
He was born in Sakai, Osaka, Japan, in 1971. He graduated from

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in 1994 and entered the graduate school of the

University of Tokyo The University of Tokyo (, abbreviated as in Japanese and UTokyo in English) is a public research university in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. Founded in 1877 as the nation's first modern university by the merger of several pre-westernisation era ins ...

. He then moved to the

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to study

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. During his graduate study in Michigan, he also worked at Koby International Academy in Novi as a part-time instructor in Math and Science. He obtained his Ph.D. in 2001 and stayed in Michigan as a post-doctoral researcher until 2007 when he moved to Virginia. Based on his 10 years of experience in teaching high-school Math, he wrote three-volume Math textbooks. Also, he wrote a book on Computational fluid dynamics, ''I do like CFD, VOL.1'', in which he explains fundamental concepts and formulas in CFD by explaining how he likes them. The second edition of ''I do like CFD, VOL.1'' was released on October 1, 2013, in both hard copy and PDF versions. The PDF version is sponsored by Software Cradle and it is available for free. The second volume of the series has not yet been completed. His interest lies exclusively in creating something new and unique. He has also published a lot of articles in computational physics.

Education

* Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering and Scientific Computing, 2001

* M.S., in Applied Mathematics, 1999

* M.S.E. in Aerospace Engineering, 1996

* B.E. in Aerospace Engineering, 1994

References

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