Kohei Funabiki received his MSc degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Tokyo in 1991, after studying Mechanical Engineering at Waseda University and the University of Tokyo with a focus on robotics and non-linear finite element methods. He began his career in 1991 as a research engineer at the National Aerospace Laboratory of Japan (NAL), which was later integrated into the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). In 2004, he was appointed Head of the Flight Simulation Group at the Flight Test Research Center. From 1994 to 1997, he concurrently served as a Technical Advisor to the Aircraft Accidents Investigation Commission, contributing to the investigation of the CAL140 accident at Nagoya Airport in 1994. He worked as a Guest Scientist at the Institute of Flight Guidance, German Aerospace Center (DLR), from 1998 to 1999. From 2000 to 2002, he served as Senior Staff for Risk Management in the Planning Office, where he established NAL’s safety and quality management framework. From 2016 to 2017, he was again partially assigned as a Technical Advisor, this time to the Japan Transport Safety Board, supporting the investigation of the 2015 PA 46 accident near Chofu Airfield. From 2022 to 2026, he led JAXA’s Flight Safety Promotion Team and developed a Safety Management System for JAXA’s research flight operations. His research interests include situation awareness technologies based on flight-deck displays of traffic and own ship information, GBAS based curved precision approaches, enhanced and synthetic vision systems for helicopters, reduced crew operations, and human–automation interaction. He currently serves as a member of the Safety Promotion Committee for Small Aircraft and the Safety Information Analysis Committee organized by the Japan Civil Aviation Bureau. He has also served on numerous expert committees on aviation safety policy. Mr. Funabiki has received several awards, including the Best of Conference Award at the 22nd Digital Avionics Systems Conference, the Director-General’s Award of the Science and Technology Agency of Japan, and the Japan Society for Aeronautical and Space Sciences Award.