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Naoya Onizawa received the B.E., M.E. and D.E. degrees in Electrical and Communication Engineering from Tohoku University, Japan, in 2004, 2006 and 2009, respectively. He is currently an Associate Professor and a Distinguished Researcher in Research Institute of Electrical Communication at Tohoku University, and a JST PRESTO researcher, Japan. He was a postdoctoral fellow at University of Waterloo, Canada in 2011 and at McGill University, Canada from 2011 to 2013. In 2015, he was a Visiting Associate Professor at University of Southern Brittany, France. His main interests and activities are in the energy- efficient VLSI design based on asynchronous circuits and probabilistic computation, and their applications, such as brain-like computers.

He received the Best Paper Award in 2010 IEEE ISVLSI, the Best Paper Finalist in 2014 IEEE ASYNC, Kenneth C. Smith Early Career Award for Microelectronics Research in 2016 IEEE ISMVL, and the MEXT Young Scientists’ Prize, Japan in 2020.