is a Japanese

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and the current head of the Riken Center for Computational Science (R-CCS) at RIKEN, the largest

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center in Japan.

Biography

Matsuoka graduated from Musashi Senior High School in 1982 and the

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in 1986. In his student days he worked for

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, a Japanese video game company, and co-developed ''

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'' and '' Rollerball'' for

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with

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. In 1989 Matsuoka became a research associate and lecturer at the University of Tokyo. In 1993 he submitted his thesis on "Language Features for Extensibility and Re-use in Concurrent Object-Oriented Languages" and acquired his Ph.D. in Science. He went on to become an assistant professor at

Tokyo Institute of Technology is a national research university located in Greater Tokyo Area, Japan. Tokyo Tech is the largest institution for higher education in Japan dedicated to science and technology, one of first five Designated National University and selected as ...

in 1996 and a full professor in 2001. He also became a visiting professor at the Japanese

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in 2002, and a fellow of the

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in 2011. Matsuoka was the lead developer of the TSUBAME supercomputer program during his stay at the Global Scientific Information and Computing Center (GSIC) of the Tokyo Institute of Technology. On April 1, 2018 he was appointed as the new director of the RIKEN Center for Computational Science (R-CCS), where he oversees the development of the Fugaku a.k.a. "Post-K" project tasked with building the successor of the

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Awards

Information Processing Society of Japan The Information Processing Society of Japan ("IPSJ") is a Japanese learned society for computing. Founded in 1960, it is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. IPSJ publishes a magazine and several professional journals mainly in Japanese, and sponsors c ...

Sakai Award (1999) *

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(2011) *

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science The is an Independent Administrative Institution in Japan, established for the purpose of contributing to the advancement of science in all fields of the natural and social sciences and the humanities.JSPSweb page History The Japan Society for ...

Prize (2005) *

Sidney Fernbach Award The Sidney Fernbach Award established in 1992 by the IEEE Computer Society, in memory of Sidney Fernbach, one of the pioneers in the development and application of high performance computers for the solution of large computational problems as the ...

(2014)

References

External links

Tokyo Institute of Technology Global Scientific Information and Computing Center

Matsuoka Lab
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Matsuoka, Satoshi Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery Japanese computer scientists Academic staff of Tokyo Institute of Technology University of Tokyo alumni Living people Year of birth missing (living people)