is a Japanese

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

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, 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

HAL Laboratory formerly shortened as HALKEN, is a Japanese video game developer based in Chiyoda, Tokyo. It was founded on February 21, 1980 by Mitsuhiro Ikeda. The company started out developing games for home computers of the era, but has since establishe ...

, 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

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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 K computer.

Awards

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Sakai Award (1999) * Gordon Bell Prize (2011) *

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Prize (2005) * Sidney Fernbach Award (2014) * Seymour Cray Award (2022)

References

External links

Tokyo Institute of Technology Global Scientific Information and Computing Center

Matsuoka Lab
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