Akiko Kanamitsu has been a Mathematica user since 1994. She has been working in a Mathematica technical support group at Japan Information Processing Service Co. Ltd. (JIPS) for over 10 years. She is the developer of the JIPS Mathematica training courses "How to Use Mathematica" and "Mathematica Programming."

Akiko has been a Mathematica instructor for over 10 years at JIPS. She has taught JIPS Mathematica training courses at universities and laboratories in Japan.