Mitsuhisa Sato, Ph.D Professor (Cooperative Graduate School Program) of Department of Computer Science, Graduate School of Systems and Information Engineering / Fellow of Center for Computational Sciences, University of Tsukuba Deputy Director of RIKEN Center for Computational Science, Team leader of programming environment research team, R-CCS, RIKEN

Contact information

Mitsuhisa Sato,
Team Leader of programming environment research team,
RIKEN Center for Computational Science,
7-1-26, Minatojima-minami-machi, Chuo-ku, Kobe, Hyogo, 650-0047, Japan
Email: msato@riken.jp

Center for Computational Sciences, University of Tsukuba
Tennou-dai 1-1-1, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8577 Japan
Phone: (+81)298-53-5532
Fax: (+81)298-53-6406
Email: msato@cs.tsukuba.ac.jp

Research Interests

• Parallel Computing and High performance computing
• Parallel computer architectures and proramming models
• OpenMP compiler and programming
• Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking of parallel systems
• Low-power and power-aware computing
• Grid Computing
• Optimizing Compiler

Education

Job history

• a researcher on computer architecture at Quantum Magneto Flux Logic Project at Research Development Corporation of Japan (JRDC) from 1986 to 1990.
• a senior researcher at Electrotechnical Laboratory, working on the EM-X multiprocessor project, from 1991 to 1996.
• a chief of Parallel and distributed system performance laboratory in Real World Computing Partnership, Japan, from 1996 to 2001. He was a leader of Omni OpenMP Compiler Project, which develops a free and portable OpenMP compiler for SMPs and clusters.
• From 2001, he was a professor of Graduate School of Systems and Information Engineering, University of Tsukuba.
• He has been working as a director of Center for computational sciences, University of Tsukuba from 2007 to 2013.
• Since October 2010, he is appointed to the research team leader of programming environment research team in Advanced Institute of Computational Science (AICS), renamed to R-CCS, RIKEN.
• From 2014 to 2020, he was working as a team leader of architecture development team in FLAGSHIP 2020 project to develop Japanese flagship supercomputer "Fugaku" in RIKEN.
• Since 2018, he is appointed to a deputy Director of RIKEN Center for Computational Science

International activity

• a member of IEEE CS.
• a member of program committee of ACM International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS) '92, '93, '95.
• a member of program committee of International Conference on Parallel Architecture and compilation technique(PACT) '97.
• a publicity chair of International Conference on Parallel Architecture and compilation technique(PACT)'98,'99.
• a member of program committee of The Third International Symposium on computing in object-oriented parallel environments (ISCOPE) '99.
• a member of program committee of COOL-chips (An international Symposium on Low-power and High-speed chips) 1999, 2000.
• a co-chair of organizing committee of International Workshop on OpenMP: experience and implementation 2000.
• a member of program committee of HPC Asia 2000, 2001.
• a member of program committee of The Third European Workshop on OpenMP (EWOMP 2001).
• a member of program committee of The Workshop on OpenMP Applications and Tools (WOMPAT 2001).
• a member of Editorial Board of "Parallel Computing" published by Elsevier Science since 2000.
• a chair of organizing committee of International Workshop on OpenMP: experience and implementation 2003.
• a member of program committee of WOMPAT 2004.
• a member of program committee of GP2P 2004.
• a member of program committee of HCW 2004.
• a program chair of HPC Asia 2004 (Tokyo).
• a board member of Compunity (OpenMP users group)

Japanese domestic activity

• a member of IPSJ (the Information Processing Society of Japan) and JSIAM (the Japan Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics).
• a chair of the special interest group on HPC (SIGHPC) in IPSJ, Japan from 1997 to 2001.
• a board member of PC cluster Consortium since 2001.
• Fellow of IPSJ

Teaching

Since April 2001, I had the follwoing class teaching in the University of Tsukuba.

• a course on "programming language processing" teaching compiler and interpreter techniques for undergraduate students.
• a course on "programming" teaching basic programming in C for undergraduate students.
• a course on "assembly programming" teaching basic assembly programming for undergraduate students.
• a course on "programming environment" teaching Object-oriented design, distributed computing in Java, OpenMP and MPI for graduate students.
• a course on "parallel and distributed programming" teaching parallel and distributed computing and programmning such as OpenMP and MPI, Grid, Clusters for graduate students.