Satoshi Matsuoka

Director RIKEN Center for Computational Science (R-CCS)
Visiting Professor, Dept. Mathematical and Computing Sciences, Tokyo Institute of Technology

Higher Level Education

The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, Information Science, B.S., 1986
The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, Information Science, M.S., 1988
The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, Information Science, Ph.D., 1993

Major Professional Appointments

Research Assistant Professor, Information Science, the School of Science, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, 1989-1993
Faculty Lecturer / Assistant Professor, Information Engineering, the School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, 1993-1996
Associate Professor, Mathematical and Computing Sciences, the School of Information Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan 1996-2001
Professor, Global Scientific Information and Computing Center, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan 2001-2018
Visiting Professor, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan 2003-2013
Visiting Reseacher, Riken Advanced Institute for Computational Science (AICS), 2012-2018
Designated Fellow, Artificial Intelligence Research Center (AIRC), the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan, 2016-2018
Lab Director, joint AIST-Tokyo Tech. Open Innovation Laboratory for Real World Big Data Computing (RWBC-OIL), 2017-2018
Director RIKEN Center for Computational Science (R-CCS) & Professor, Dept. Mathematical and Computing Sciences, Tokyo Institute of Technology Apr. 2018 – Present

Research Activities

Major Academic Awards and Other Professional Acclades

Nov. 1999: Sakai Award, Information Processing Society of Japan
Apr. 2005: JSPS Award, Japan Society for Promotion of Science (Award presented by his highness Prince Akishino)
June 2008: ISC 2008 Award, International Supercomputing Conference
Nov. 2009: Fellow, International Supercomputing Conference
Jan. 2010: People to Watch in 2010, The HPCWire
Nov. 2011: Fellow, Association for Computing Machinery
Nov. 2011: Gordon Bell Prize, Association for Computing Machinery
Nov. 2011: ESPS Award, the Promotion Foundation for Electrical Science
Apr. 2012: Commendation from the Minister of Education, Sports, Culture, Science　and Technology (MEXT), Japan (for development of Green Supercomputer TSUBAME2.0)
Mar. 2014: Okawa Publication Prize, Okawa Foundation
Nov. 2014: IEEE-CS Sidney Fernbach Memorial Award
Nov. 2015: HPCWire 2015 Readers Choice Awards Outstanding Leadership in HPC (co-award with Prof. Jack Dongarra)
Jan. 2017: People to Watch in 2017, The HPCWire
Jun. 2018: ACM HPDC Achievement Award
Dec. 2018: Best Paper Award, ACM HiPC 2018
Mar. 2019: Asian HPC Leadership Award, SCAsia
Nov. 2019: HPCwire 2019, Editor’s Choice Outstanding Leadership in HPC
Aug. 2020: Fellow, Japan Society for Software Science and Technology
Nov. 2021: The Gordon Bell Prize, Association for Computing Machinery

Major International Academic Activities

1996: JSSST International Symposium on Objects Technologies for Advanced Software (ISOTAS’96) -- Program Chair
1997: European Conference on Object-Oriented Computing (ECOOP ’97) -- Program Chair
1999: ACM Object-Oriented Programming: Languages, Systems and Applications (OOPSLA 2000) -- Doctoral Symposium Chair
1999: International Symposium on Computing with Objects for Parallel Environments (ISCOPE ’99) -- Program Chair
1999-2006: The Global Grid Forum Steering Group --- Area Chair
2001: AITO/JSSST Reflection 2001 -- General Chair
2002: ACM Object-Oriented Programming: Languages, Systems and Applications (OOPSLA 2002) -- Program Chair
2003: IEEE Computing Clusters and the Grid (CCGrid 2003) -- Program Chair
2004: HPC Asia 2004 –Vice Program Chair
2004: IEEE/ACM Supercomputing (SC 2004) Technical Track “Networking” – Paper Area Chair
2005: IEEE Cluster Computing -- Vice Program Chair
2005: IEEE HiPC 2005 -- Vice Program Chair
2006: IEEE Computing Clusters and the Grid (CCGrid 2006) -- General Chair
2007: IEEE Computing Clusters and the Grid (CCGrid 2007) -- Program Vice Chair
2008: IEEE IPDPS- HPPAC (High-Performance Power Aware Computing) Workshop Program Co-Chair
2008: IEEE Computing Clusters and the Grid (CCGrid 2008) -- Program Vice Chair
2008: IEEE/ACM Supercomputing (SC 2008) Technical Program “Grids”– Paper Area Chair
2009: ACM/IEEE Supercomputing (SC 2009): Technical Papers Chair
2008-2011: ACM/IEEE Supercomputing - Steering Group Member
2011: ACM/IEEE Supercomputing (SC 2011) -- Communities Program Chair
2011: ACM HiPC -- Program Chair
2012: ACM SIGHPC Advisory Board Member
2013: International Parallel Processing Conference – Vice Chair
2013: ACM/IEEE Supercomputing (SC 2013) -- Technical Program Chair
2014: ACM/IEEE Supercomputing (SC2014): Emerging Technologies Chair
2015: IEEE Computing Clusters and the Grid (CCGrid 2015) -- Program Area Chair
2015: IEEE Cluster Computing Conference (Cluster 2015) – Program Chair
2015: ACM/IEEE Supercomputing (2015) – Technical Program, Gordon Bell Committee Liaison
2016: International Supercomputing Conference (ISC16) – Program Chair
2016: IEEE Cluster Computing Conference (Cluster 2015) – General Co-Chair
2016: ACM/IEEE Supercomputing: Awards Chair
2016-: DoE Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory Committee (ASCAC) member
2017: International Supercomputing Conference (ISC17) – HPC in Asia Chair
2017: International Parallel Computing Conference (ICPP17) – Architecture Track Chair
2018: SIAM Parallel Programming Conference Co-Chair
2018: Supercomputing Asia 2018 Deputy Chair
2018: ACM Gordon Bell Prize, Selection Committee Chair
2020: ACM/IEEE Supercomputing (2020) – Deputy Exhibits Chair
2021: ACM/IEEE Supercomputing (2021) – Exhibits Chair

Countless number of program committee member roles

Supercomputer Rankings and Other Achievements/Accolades

Achievements with direct technical contributions to the machine and/or the award. The Top 500, HPCG, Green 500, HPL-AI, Graph 500, Green Graph 500 are published twice each year, in June/July at the ISC Conference in Europe, and at the ACM/IEEE Supercomputing Conference in the United States, the two major HPC conferences globally. HPCWire Awards and MLPerfHPC are announced and awarded at the ACM/IEEE Supercomputing conference annually.

Tokyo Tech TSUBAME1(TSUBAME 1.2 upgrade Sep. 2008)

2006/6: #7 in the world, Top500
2006/6,11, 2007/6: #1 in Asia, Top 500 (3 consecutive times)
2006/6,11, 2007/6,11: #1 in Japan, Top 500 (4 consecutive times)
2008/11: The first GPU supercomputer on the Top500

Tokyo Tech TSUBAME 2 (TSUBAME2.5 upgrade Sep. 2013)

2010/11: #4 in the world, #1 Japan, Top 500, #3 Green500 / “Greenest production supercomputer in the world”
2011/6, 11: #5 in the world, #2 Japan, Top 500
2011/11: #3 in the world, Graph 500
2011/11: ACM Gordon bell Award
2011/11: HPCwire Annual Awards (Reader's & Editors Choice)
2012/5: NVIDIA CCOE Achievement Award - Tokyo Tech

Tokyo Tech TSUBAME-KFC (TSUBAME-KFC/DL upgrade Oct. 2015)

2013/11, 2014/6: #1 in the world, Green 500
2013/11: #1 in the world, Green Graph 500
2014/11: #3 in the world, Green 500
2015/11: #2 in the world, Green 500

Tokyo Tech TSUBAME 3

2017/06: #1 in the world, Green 500
2017/11: HPCwire Annual Awards (Editor’s Choice)

AIST ABCI

2018/11: #1 in Japan, #5 in the world, Top500
2019/5: Resnet-50 training time #1 in the world
2019/6: #1 in Japan, #8 in the world, Top500
2019/11: #1 in Japan, #8 in the world, Top500

Riken K-Computer

2014/6: #1 in the world, Graph 500
2015/7-2019/6: #1 in the world, Graph 500 (9 consecutive times)

Riken Fugaku

2019/11: #1 in the world, Green 500 (Prototype)
2020/6: #1 in the world, Top500, HPCG, HPL-AI, Graph500
2020/11: #1 in the world, Top500, HPCG, HPL-AI, Graph500
2020/11: HPCWire Annual Awards (Editor’s Choice)
2021/6: #1 in the world, Top500, HPCG, HPL-AI, Graph500
2021/11: #1 in the world, Top500, HPCG, HPL-AI, Graph500
2021/11: #1 in the world, MLPerfHPC-CosmoFlow
2021/11: ACM Gordon Bell Prize (awardee)