Satoru Taniguchi

Mr. Satoru Taniguchi has been serving as a Project general manager of semiconductor strategy planning at Toyota. He also has been a Member of board at MIRISE Technologies Co. which is semiconductor research company funded by Denso and Toyota since .

Mr. Taniguchi received a Master degree in Crystalline Material Science from the Nagoya University.

Mr. Taniguchi joined Toyota Motor Corporation in 1990. He was responsible for a variety of important area as the development of electronics control system for engine management, airbag control and body electronics. He also assumed responsibilities for the evaluation engineering and research and development management of overall electronics area of Toyota. One of his notable achievements is the design of electronics/electric platform architecture for Toyota vehicles. It support and contributes to Toyota’s next generation vehicle’s design as TNGA (Toyota New Global Architecture).

Mr. Taniguchi also has spent several years in Ann Arbor, Michigan, leading a group of electronics engineers at Toyota Technical Center USA for the design of the electronics system used in the vehicles for the US market.

Mr. Taniguchi led the development of conceptual vehicles, i-Real, 1/X and Rin those were introduced at Tokyo Motor Show 2007. He also led the concept of monument design for Goodwood Festival of Speed 2007 which Toyota was a main sponsor.

Mr. Taniguchi was a president & CEO of Toyota InfoTechnology Center Co. LTD in both Japan and US from 2015 to 2017. He led V2X communication, data pipeline technology and data analysis research for connected vehicles. Mr. Taniguchi was assigned as a Vice Unit Chief of SIP-adus (Cross-ministerial Strategic Innovation Promotion Program Automated Driving for Universal Services) from Cabinet office as a leader of cyber security research till 2017.

Mr. Taniguchi was served Vice President and Head of Automated Driving Core Technology at Toyota Research Institute - Advanced Development (TRI-AD) till 2020.

Mr. Taniguchi was a General Manager of E/E architecture development division at Toyota till 2024. He led E/E architecture design, E/E system vehicle packaging and cyber security development.