Mitsuhisa Sato, Ph.D Professor of Department of Computer Science, Graduate School of Systems and Information Engineering / Center for Computational Sciences, University of Tsukuba

Contact information

Mitsuhisa Sato,
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
• OpenMP compiler and programming
• Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking of parallel systems
• PC/WS clusters and its programming
• Grid and P2P Computing
• Optimizing Compiler
• Parallel computer architectures
• Low-power cluster and power-aware computing

Lecture ( College of Information Science)

• compiler and interpreter techniques
• basic programming technique in C
• basic assembly programming
• Object-oriented design, distributed computing in Java, OpenMP and MPI

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.
• Currently, he is a professor of Institute of Information Science and Electronics, University of Tsukuba. He is also a director of Center for Computational Physics, University of Tsukuba.

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 member of program committee and executive committee of Joint Symposium on Parallel Processing (JSPP), since 1994.
• a vice organizing chair of SACSIS 2004.
• a vice chair of Japan Grid Consortium since 2003.
• a board member of PC cluster Consortium since 2001.

Teaching

Since April 2001, I am 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.