Tohoku University Cutting-Edge Technology × Life Science Series, Vol. 4: IT and Semiconductor Technology as Social Infrastructure: From Safety to Medical Collaboration and Healthcare

Language: Japanese

Biography

Tetsuo Endo (Director of the Center for Innovative Integrated Electronic Systems/Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University)

1987: Graduated from the Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, The University of Tokyo
1987: Joined Toshiba Corporation and engaged in R&D and mass production of the NAND flash memory
1995: Graduated with a PhD in Engineering from Tohoku University
1995: Appointed as Lecturer at the Research Institute of Electrical Communication, Tohoku University
2007: Promoted to Professor at the Research Institute of Electrical Communication, Tohoku University
2012: Appointed as Professor, Graduate School of Engineering & Director, Center for Innovative Integrated Electronic Systems, Tohoku University
2016: Received the Prime Minister's Award for his achievements in industry-academia-government collaboration
2017: Received the National Commendation for Invention for his invention of the 3D NAND flash memory

Yuichi Nakamura (CTO and Head of Global Innovation Unit, NEC Corporation)

After joining NEC Corporation in 1988, Nakamura was appointed as Head of Research at the Green Innovation Research Laboratories in 2010, Director of the Green Innovation Research Laboratories in 2013, and subsequently as Director of the System Platforms Research Laboratories and Director of the Central Research Laboratory before serving in his current roles as Visiting Professor at NanoQuine, The University of Tokyo; Visiting Professor at the Collaboration Division, National Institute of Informatics; and Senior Researcher/Visiting Professor at the Green Computing Systems Research Organization, Waseda University.

Atsuhiro Nakagawa (Professor at the Tohoku University Hospital; Design Head at the Experience Design & Alliance Section, Tohoku University Hospital (EDAS-TUH))

Nakagawa graduated from the Tohoku University School of Medicine in 1998 and joined the Department of Neurosurgery, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, in the same year. He conducted research on the applications of shock wave treatment at the Institute of Fluid Science, Tohoku University, from 2001 to 2004 before training at the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital & Trauma Center at UCSF as a Clinical Fellow for Nerve Injuries from 2008 to 2010. He participated in the Global Faculty Training Program at Stanford Biodesign in 2015 and served as a Specially Appointed Professor at Tohoku University Hospital from 2019 to March 2022, during which he was appointed as Design Head at the Experience Design & Alliance Section, Tohoku University Hospital (EDAS-TUH). He has served in his current position since April 2022.