I am a materials physicist who loves conversing with experimentalists and with theoreticians who have analytical backgrounds. Most of my work is concerned with the properties of two-dimensional materials, and I was an early proponent of structural modifications of those materials (those ideas eventually spanned a field of two-dimensional ferroelectrics). In reaching those conclusions, I have made modifications to the SIESTA density functional theory code, which relies on a localized basis set. Professor Taisuke Ozaki is the lead developer of the OpenMX code, a tool for first principles calculations based on another type of localized basis. At Tokyo, I intend to finalize an implementation of optical second harmonic generation into the SIESTA code, and to port it into OpenMX. I also look forward to interacting with Professor Ozaki and additional colleagues at the ISSP working on two-dimensional materials.