Tokyo, Japan
Hironori Kasahara is a senior executive vice president at Waseda University with responsibility for research innovation, including entrepreneurship, intellectual property, and industry collaboration. He was the 2018 IEEE Computer Society president and is also an IEEE Fellow, an IEEE Eta Kappa Nu professional member, an Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ) Fellow, a member of the Science Council of Japan, a board member of the Council on Competitiveness-Nippon, and a board member of the Engineering Academy of Japan. He has led several Japanese national projects on low-power, high-performance multicores and parallelizing compilers, supported by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization. He received a bachelor’s degree in 1980, an M.S. in electrical engineering in 1982, and a Ph.D. in 1985 from Waseda University, and subsequently joined its faculty in 1986. He has been a professor of comput