Kiwa Tomaru is a mathematics teacher at Nagoya University Junior and Senior High School, where she has designed and taught the compulsory Data Science course since its introduction in 2022, emphasizing reading data correctly over formula-based instruction — work recognized with the 19th Japan Statistical Society Award for Statistics Education. She is currently a Doctoral Program student in Degree Programs in Systems and Information Engineering at the University of Tsukuba, researching the relationship between regional amenities and well-being, bridging secondary-education practice and graduate research to make statistical thinking accessible
to society.
