Kazunari Ishimaru

Dr. Kazunari Ishimaru joined Toshiba, Semiconductor Device Engineering Labs. in 1988 and engaged in the development of advanced SRAM/Logic technologies. He was a visiting industrial fellow at the University of California at Berkeley from 1997 to 1998. He was transferred to Toshiba America Electric Components Inc. in 2006 as a Vice President of Research, where he led the development of 32nm~20nm CMOS platform technologies with IBM as project leader from Toshiba. After returning to Japan in 2010, he was in charge of logic product manufacturing at Oita operation as a senior manager. In 2013, he moved to the Center for Semiconductor Research and Development of Toshiba Semiconductor Company as a senior manager of the Advanced Memory Technology Development Dept. He became a Director of the Institute of Memory Technology R&D at Kioxia Corporation in 2022, and joined Rapidus Corporation in April 2023 as a head of silicon technology division. He served IEDM General Chair in 2011. He also served as a Scientific Advisory Board member of IMEC from 2014 to 2018. He was elevated to IEEE Fellow in 2014.