Title
Professor, Graduate School of Science and Engineering
Director, ICT Industry Collaborations, Research Institute of Regional Value Creation Management
Deputy Director, Business Research Institute for Glocal Innovation
Academic Carrier and Education
Professor, Management of Technology, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Yamagata University since November 2016
Director, ICT Industry Collaborations, Research Institute of Regional Value Creation Management since April 2017
Deputy Director, Business Research Institute for Glocal Innovation since January 2018
Specialized fields are storage technolgy, electronics devices and systems, computer systems, electronics and electric materials, communication and network engineering, and medical systems
Bachelor Degree, Electrical Communication Engineering, 1981, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
Master Degree, Electrical Communication Engineering, 1983, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
Ph.D, Electronics Engineering, 2006, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
Professional Carrier
1983 ～ 1988／Researcher, Toshiba Research & Development Center
1988 ～ 1990／Visiting Researcher, University of Minnesota, USA
1990 ～ 2009／Senior Research Scientist at Toshiba Research & Development Center, Senior Manager at Toshiba Core Technology Center, Senior Manager of Product Planning at Storage Device Division, Toshiba Corporation, with successful achievement of the world’s first commercialization of perpendicular magnetic recording hard disk drives in 2005
2009 〜 2011／Vice President of R&D, Toshiba America Information Systems Inc.
2011 〜 2016／Semiconductor & Storage Company, Toshiba Corporation, Senior Fellow since 2014
Program Advisor, Impulsing Paradigm Change through Disruptive Technologies Program (ImPACT)(2015 〜Present), Research Project Evaluation Committee Member, National Institute for Material Science (2016), Project Director, Yamagata Prefecture IoT Acceleration Laboratories (2017〜Present)
Awards
OKOCHI MEMORIAL PRIZE AWARD (2007), MAGNETIC SOCIETY OF JAPAN ACHIEVEMENT AWARD (2006) , NIKKEI BP TECHNOLOGY AWARD (1997), NIKKEI BP TECHNOLOGY AWARD (2006)
Interview
“Oral History of Yoichiro Tanaka” Computer History Museum, USA
Membership of Professional Societies
IEEE Magnetic Society, IEEE Computer Society, American Society of Mechanical Engineering (ASME), Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineering (IEICE), Magnetics Society of Japan (MSJ) , The Japan Neuroscience Society, The Database Society of Japan, Japan Association for Management Systems
Messages
I am exploring the research on computing and storage system technologies to support data science in big data era. The goal is to apply those technologies to data analytics of advanced medical science such as genome analysis and brain euro science. I am also working on research of the approach with such multiple technology integration from Management of Technology aspects.