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Akinori YONEZAWA, Ph.D.
Co-Director, RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science
Emeritus Professor, University of Tokyo
1) Profile
1970 | Bachelor, University of Tokyo, Faculty of Engineering |
1978 | Ph.D. in Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
1988-2011 | Professor of Computer Science, University of Tokyo |
1992-1996 | Scientific Advisor, German National Research Institute of Computer Science (GMD) |
1995-1998 | President, Japanese Society of Software Science and Technology |
2006-2010 | Director, Information Technology Center (Supercomputer Center), University of Tokyo |
2008 | Member, Science Council of Japan |
2011 | Co-Director, RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science |
2) Research Activity
Concurrent computation models, programming languages, object-oriented computing, ultra-parallel computing, discrete event simulation
3) Society Activity, etc
fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Senior Dahl-Nygaard Prize from Association Internationale pour les Technologies Objets (AITO) (2008), Medal of Honour with a Purple Ribbon of Japan(2009), etc