Yuko Ueno received her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in chemistry from The University of Tokyo in 1995, 1997, and 2002, respectively. She joined NTT Corporation in 1997. She was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of California at Berkeley and at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA, from 2004 to 2005. Her research interests are control of a biomolecular interface on a solid surface and its applications in biosensing.