Hideki Kikumoto received his Masters in engineering in 2010 and then his PhD in engineering in 2013, both from the Department of Architecture, School of Engineering at the University of Tokyo. From 2022–23, he was a visiting professor at Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands. Kikumoto's research interests lie in urban and building environments and environmental control engineering, emphasising the wind, air, and thermal environment. He has been working on simulation and sensing technologies for environmental elements, mainly focusing on computational and experimental fluid dynamics. The focus of his current research includes airflow and pollutant dispersion in and around cities and buildings, building ventilation and air quality control, inverse/data-driven environment analysis, and environmental soft-sensing.

Kikumoto has authored around 110 peer-reviewed journal papers, receiving over 1800 citations with an H index of 25. He has also received several awards for his contributions to the field, including the Encouragement Prize of the Architectural Institute of Japan (2018) and the Research Encouragement Prize of the Japan Association for Wind Engineering (2012).