Dr. Hiroto Yasuura

Director, Honda Foundation

Vice Director-General of the National Institute of Informatics

Professor Emeritus of Kyushu University

 

Dr. Hiroto Yasuura serves as Vice Director-General of the National Institute of Informatics. He is a Professor Emeritus of Kyushu University where he served previously as an Executive Vice President. 

 

Doctor Yasuura received the B.E., M.E. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, in 1976, 1978, and 1983 respectively. 

He was an associate professor in Kyoto University and moved to Kyushu University in 1991.

 

Dr. Yasuura is the research director of Silicon-Sea-Belt Fukuoka from 2001, to build up a research-industry cluster on LSI

design. More than 250 LSI design related companies are moved or established in Fukuoka area in the last 15 years. He is also

one of founders of ISIT (Institute of Systems, Information Technologies and Nanotechnologies, established in 1995), which is

founded by Fukuoka city for promoting ICT industry. From 2011, he is the director of Experimental Center for Social System

Technologies in Fukuoka and also the director general of Fukuoka Asian Urban Research Center.

Prof. Yasuura is a Vice President of IEICE (Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers) and JMOOC

(Japan Massive Online Open Course).