Tetsuo Asano (, born 1949 in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan)
Australasian Computer Science Week 2006, retrieved 2014-03-25. is a Japanese computer scientist, the president of the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology.Faculty profile
JAIST, retrieved 2014-03-25. His main research interest is in computational geometry.

Education and career

Asano was a student at

Osaka University The , abbreviated as UOsaka or , is a List of national universities in Japan, national research university in Osaka, Japan. The university traces its roots back to Edo period, Edo-era institutions Tekijuku (1838) and Kaitokudō, Kaitokudo (1724), ...

, earning bachelor's, masters, and doctoral degrees there in 1972, 1974, and 1977. He was on the faculty of Osaka Electro-Communication University from 1977 until 1998, when he joined JAIST. From 2012 to 2014 he was dean of the School of Information Science at JAIST. He became president of JAIST in April 2014.

Awards and honors

In 2001 he was elected as a fellow of the

Association for Computing Machinery The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is a US-based international learned society for computing. It was founded in 1947 and is the world's largest scientific and educational computing society. The ACM is a non-profit professional membe ...

"for his contributions to discrete algorithms on computational geometry and their practical applications to computer vision and VLSI design."ACM Fellow award citation
retrieved 2014-03-25. He is also a fellow of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers and of the

Information Processing Society of Japan The is a Japanese learned society for computing. Founded in 1960, it is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. IPSJ publishes a magazine and several professional journals mainly in Japanese, and sponsors conferences and workshops, also mainly conducted ...

Selected publications

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Asano, Tetsuo 1949 births Living people Japanese computer scientists Researchers in geometric algorithms Osaka University alumni 2001 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery Scientists from Kyoto Prefecture