Shin-ichi Minato
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Shin-ichi Minato is a Professor
at Laboratory
for
Algorithmics, Graduate
School of Information Science and Technology,
Hokkaido University.
He also serves a Research Director of ERATO
(Exploratory
Research for Advanced Technology) MINATO
Discrete Structure Manipulation System Project, executed by JST (Japan Science and
Technology Agency). His research topics include efficient
representations and manipulation algorithms for large-scale discrete
structure data. He received the B.E.,
M.E., and D.E. degrees in Information Science from Kyoto University in
1988, 1990, and 1995, respectively. He had been working at NTT
Laboratories since 1990 until March 2004. He was a Visiting Scholar
at
Computer Science Department
of Stanford University in 1997.
He was a Senior Researcher of NTT Network Innovation
Laboratories in 1999. From 1999
to 2000, he concurrently served a Visiting Lecturer at
Shonan-Fujisawa Campus
of Keio University.
He joined Hokkaido University as an Associate Professor in 2004, and
has been a Professor since Oct. 2010. He started the ERATO Project
from Oct. 2009. From 2011, he is also an Adjunct Researcher at Research
Institute for Advanced Network Technology of Waseda University. He
published "Binary
Decision Diagrams and
Applications for VLSI CAD" (Kluwer,1995). His
original data structure "ZDD" is minutely discussed using many pages
in the Knuth's book "The
Art of Computer Programming" (Vol. 4, Fascicle 1, 2009). From 2008
to 2011, Minato serves a TPC Sub-Topic Chair of Asia and South-Pacific Design Automation
Conference (ASPDAC). He
served the Workshop Chair of ALSIP-2008. He
is a
project member of Hokkaido
University Global COE program from 2007. He is also involved in Japan
MEXT "info-plosion" project from 2006 to 2010. He is a member of IEEE,
IEICE, IPSJ, and JSAI.
Shin-ichi Minato, Dr. Eng.
Professor.
Graduate School of
Information Science and Technology,
Hokkaido University.
North14 West9, Sapporo,
060-0814, Japan.
Tel/Fax: 011-706-7682
E-mail: minato(at)ist.hokudai.ac.jp, minato(at)ieee.org
URL: http://www-alg.ist.hokudai.ac.jp/~minato
Last update: Apr. 9, 2012
