Bio

Mr. Kimura is now a Principal Fellow at the Center for Research and Development Strategy (CRDS), Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), and an Invited Senior Researcher at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST). He joined Fujitsu Limited in 1981. Since then throughout his career, he has been engaged primarily in computer system design and development and was a leader in the computer architecture research group at Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd.(FLL), Japan. Some of the projects he contributed to include: the development of a compiler for parallel inference machines that were used on the Japanese Fifth Generation computer systems, parallelizing compilers for commercial servers, energy-efficient server systems, performance evaluation of computer systems, and supercomputers, one of which was later called as ‘KEI Computer’ that was developed under the supervision of RIKEN and Ministry of Education, Japan. He got transferred to Fujitsu Laboratories of America in California in November 2009, and in 2011, was appointed as President and CEO where he led several research projects in the areas of healthcare, smart energy, open education, SDN, and security. He returned to Japan in 2015 and became a Fellow at FLL. He was appointed as Principal Fellow at CRDS/JST in January 2017, while keeping his fellow position at FLL. He finally retired from Fujitsu in March 2019 and was appointed as Supervisory Innovation Coordinator at AIST in July of the same year. He spent a summer at Stanford University as a visiting scholar in 1995 and served as Visiting Professor at the University of Tokyo for four years from 2002, and at Kyushu University in 2009. He won the ‘Ohm Technology Award’ in 2004, and the Achievement Award of the Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ) in 2005. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Tokyo. His personal interests include reading books, walking, and especially visiting historic sites of Japanese old 100 castles which were selected by the Japan Castle Foundation. (He visited only 25 as of May 2018.) He also started his new hobby of wine tasting while in California.