He is a CEO, Professor, Chiba Science Institute. He was an Executive Director for Advanced R&D Project Development,　Stanford　Research Institute (SRI International) till Jan. 2011. He served on SRI for 20 years. Dr. Chiba was supervising advanced R&D programs including Japanese Government projects. Before joining SRI, he worked at Media Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute Technology, as visiting scientist for three years.
He is the author or coauthor of more than 506 publications in the various areas including artificial muscle actuators & generators, hydrogen safety, and high temperature membranes for hydrogen production. He also wrote 53 books, as the author and co-authors, for computer simulation, nano/micromachines, catalysis, fuel cells, conductive materials, R&D Management, artificial muscles, high temperature membranes for hydrogen production, hydrogen safety, renewable energy, wave power generation, etc.
He has a Ph.D. in Metallurgy & Material Science from the University of Wales (Britain). He jumped to the Ph.D. course without doing M.Sc.
He received lots of prizes including “IAAM medal for outstanding contribution in the field of Advanced Material Science and Technology in 2016”, and “the best paper award from the 5th International Symposium on Environmental Conscious Design in 2007”.
He is acting as editors in several international journals including “Advanced Materials Letters”, “Journal of Materials Engineering and Applications”, “Journal of Steel Structure and Construction”,” Industrial Engineering & Management”, “Journal of Material Sciences”, “Scholar Journal of Applied Science and Research”, “Madridge Journal of Molecular Biology”,” International Journal of Hematology and Blood Research (IJHBR)”, and “Journal of Biomedical and Life Science”.