Masao Nakaya is Executive General Manager of LSI Product Technology Unit in Renesas Technology Corporation which is a joint venture between Hitachi Ltd. and Mitsubishi Electric Corporation. He joined Renesas Technology as General Manager of Design Technology Division in 2003 when Renesas was established. Prior to Renesas, Masao Nakaya spent 27 years at Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, where he has been involved in the design of high-speed MOS and bipolar gate arrays, high-speed CMOS A/D and D/A converters, three-dimensional IC, Telecommunication & Network LSI, and Parallel Processor in LSI R & D Laboratories.
Dr. Nakaya was awarded the Paper Prizes from IEICE in 1993 and from IPS in 1998.
Dr. Nakaya was a visiting professor of Waseda University from 2002 to 2006. He was Chair of IEEE SSCS Kansai Chapter from 2003-2004, now he is Chair of the technical group on Integrated Circuits and Devices, IEICE from 2005.
He received the B.S.E.E., M.S.E.E., and Dr. Eng. degrees from Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, in 1974, 1976, and 1988, respectively.