Presenter

Dr. Satoshi Matsuoka is a Full Professor at the Global Scientific Information and Computing Center (GSIC) at Tokyo Institute of Technology. He is the leader of the TSUBAME series of supercomputers, including TSUBAME2.0 which was the first in Japan to exceed Petaflops and became the 4th fastest in the world in Nov. 2010. He leads several major research projects such as the MEXT Green Supercomputing and JST-CREST Extreme Big Data. He has chaired numerous ACM/IEEE conferences such as the 2013 ACM/IEEE Supercomputing. He is the fellow of the ACM and ISC, and has won many awards, including the 2006 JSPS Prize awarded by his Highness Prince Akishino, the 2011 ACM Gordon Bell Prize, the Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in 2012, and the 2014 IEEE-CS Sidney Fernbach Memorial Award, one of the most prestigious awards in the field of HPC.