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Takashi Sato received a Ph. D. degree from Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.  He was with Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, from 1991 to 2003, with Renesas Technology Corp., Tokyo, Japan, from 2003 to 2006, and with the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan. In 2009, he joined the Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, where he is currently a professor. He was a visiting industrial fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1998 to 1999.  His research interests include CAD for electrical circuits, fabrication-aware design methodology, and performance optimization for variation tolerance.  Dr. Sato is a senior member of the IEEE, the member of the ACM, and the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE).  He received the Beatrice Winner Award at ISSCC 2000 and the Best Paper Award at ISQED 2003.