Prof. Nakasuka was born in Osaka in 1961.
After graduating from the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the University of Tokyo in 1983, and receiving a Ph.D. in Aeronautics in 1988, he joined a computer manufacturer and became involved in research around Artificial Intelligence and automated manufacturing.
In 1990, he became a lecturer at the University of Tokyo, then subsequently an assistant professor of the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Tokyo, and a visiting research fellow in the United States.
He has been a professor at the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics since 2004.
His research fields are space engineering and intelligence for space systems.
He is a member of the Japan Society for Aeronautical and Space Sciences, the American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics, SICE and the Japan Rocket Society.