Biography
Satoshi Matsuoka has been the Director of RIKEN Center for Computational Science (R-CCS) since 2018. He is responsible for developing the supercomputer Fugaku which has become the fastest supercomputer in the world in all four major supercomputer rankings in 2020 and 2021 (Top500, HPCG, HPL-AI, Graph500), along with multitudes of ongoing cutting-edge HPC research being conducted, including investigating Post-Moore era computing, especially the future FugakuNEXT supercomputer.
He holds Ph. D. from the University of Tokyo in 1993. He was a Professor at the Global Scientific Information and Computing Center (GSIC), the Tokyo Institute of Technology, and the director of the joint AIST-Tokyo Tech. Real World Big Data Computing Open Innovation Laboratory (RWBC-OIL). He was the leader of the TSUBAME series of supercomputers that had also received many international acclaims, at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, where he still holds a professor position, to continue his research activities in HPC and scalable Big Data and AI.
He has authored over 500 articles according to Google Scholar, and chaired numerous conferences, including the Technical Papers Chair and the Program Chair for ACM/IEEE Supercomputing 2009 and 2013 (SC09 and SC13) respectively as well as many other conference chairs, and the ACM Gordon Bell Prize selection committee chair in 2018.
He is a Fellow of ACM, ISC, JSSST (Japan Society for Software Science and Technology) and IPSJ (Information Processing Society of Japan). His accolades are the ACM Gordon Bell Prizes in 2011 & 2021; the IEEE-CS Sidney Fernbach Award in 2014 as well as the IEEE-CS Computer Society Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award in 2022, both being the highest awards in the field of HPC, and the only individual to receive both awards. He is selected as one of the HPCwire 35 Legends by the HPCWire in 2024.
His longtime contribution to computer science research was commended with the Medal of Honor with a Purple ribbon by His Majesty the Emperor of Japan in 2022.