Dr. Hiroyuki Yamasaki holds B.Eng., M.Eng., and Ph.D. degrees all from Shizuoka University, Hamamatsu, Japan. He is an admitted Chartered Engineer (C.Eng.) with the British Engineering Council. He joined Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo, Japan in 1985. His career in the company is outlined as follows: 1985-1991, senior engineer of the LSI Laboratory (Hyogo, Japan), 1991-1995, assistant manager of Strategic R&D Planning Group of ULSI Laboratory (Hyogo, Japan); 1995, manager of R&D Planning Office, ULSI Laboratory;1995, manager of the Strategic Planning, ULSI Development Center (Hyogo, Japan).

April 1, 2003, Renesas Technology Corp. (one of the largest semiconductor companies in the world, provides highly integrated semiconductor system solutions for mobile, automotive, networking, and digital home electronics markets) has separated from Hitachi, Ltd. and Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, and commenced operations as the world's leading System LSI company. He presently holds the post of manager of Planning Group, LSI Manufacturing Technology Unit, Renesas Technology Corp. (Hyogo, Japan).

From 2001, he is also an Advisor, Japan Productivity Center for Socio-Economic Development (Tokyo, Japan)and from 2003, an Advisor and Fellow, Innovation Promotion Association-Japan (Tokyo, Japan). He has received the Takayanagi Memorial Award for ''Research on Novel Solid-state Imaging Devices with Inherent MNOS Memory'' in 1986, and the Meritorious Person Award from Sanda City (Hyogo, Japan) in 1993. He lectured at the Graduate School of Engineering, Shizuoka University, in 1991, and was a visiting associate professor at the Center for Joint Research, Shizuoka University, in 1996. He is founding secretary of the IEEE Japan Chapter of EMS and correspondent of Japan of IAMOT. He was a member of the Board of Directors of the Japan Society for Science Policy and Research Management (JSSPRM) and now councilor of JSSPRM. He is cited in Who's Who in the World (16-19 Edition). His web site is www.DrYamasaki.com.