Personal History


Born

February 9, 1946
Nara, Japan

Education

March 1969B. E. degree Osaka University, Electronic Engineering
March 1971M. E. degree Osaka University, Electronic Engineering
March 1974Ph. D. degree Osaka University, Electronic Engineering 
Doctoral advisor: Hiroshi Ozaki

Experience

April 1974 - March 1985Assistant Professor, Department of Electronic Engineering, Osaka University
April 1981 - October 1981Sabbatical: Visiting Research Assistant Professor, University of Waterloo, Canada
April 1984 - July 1984Sabbatical: Visiting Associate Professor, McGill University, Canada
April 1985 - March 1990Associate Professor, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Meiji University
April 1990 - March 1993Professor, Department of Computer Science, Meiji University 
April 1993 - March 2011Professor, Department of Information Processing, Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology
April 1998 - March 2000
April 2011

April 2011 - March 2021		Senator, Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Professor Emeritus, Nara Institute of Science and Technology

Professor, Faculty of Informatics, Osaka Gakuin University
 

Academic Society Member

April 1969 IEICE Student Member
January 1970IEEE Student Member
January 1974 IEEE Member
March 1974 IEICE Member
April 1978 IPSJ Member
January 1983 IEEE Senior Member
January 1989IEEE Fellow
September 2001 IEICE Fellow
March 2004 IPSJ Fellow
  January 2012                       IEEE Life Fellow
  January 2016                       IEICE Life Fellow
  April 2018                           IPSJ Life Fellow

Professional Area

Logic Design, Design Automation, Test Technology, Dependable Computing