Dr. Yasunori Kimura

Principal Fellow, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)

Fellow, Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd.

Dr. Yasunori Kimura is a member of ISSIP Board of Directors.  He’s been working on IT policy making as a Principal Fellow at Center for Research and Development Strategy in Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) since January 2017.

Dr. Kimura joined Fujitsu Limited in 1981. Since then throughout his career, he has been engaged primarily in computer system design and development, and was a lead in the computer architecture research group at Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., Japan. He contributed to the development of a compiler for parallel inference machines, parallelizing compilers, energy efficient server systems, performance evaluation of computer systems, and supercomputers, one of which was later called as ‘KEI Computer’.

He got transferred to Fujitsu Laboratories of America 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, software defined network, and security.

He returned to Japan in 2015, he was newly appointed as Principal Fellow at Center for Research and Development Strategy (CRDS), JST in January, 2017, while keeping his fellow position at Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd.