Hiroto Yasuura is a professor of Department of Computer Science and Communication Engineering, Graduate School of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, Kyushu University. He is also the director of System LSI Research Center in Kyushu University. Prof. Yasuura served as Technical Program Chair and General Chair of ICCAD in 1997 and 1998, respectively. He served as a Vice President of IEEE CAS Society, ACM SIGDA advisory board member, and is now Steering Committee Chair of ASP-DAC.