Kenji Yoshida, Ph.D, President and Representative Director of D2S KK, Japan

Previously, Kenji served as the CTO of Cadence Design Systems, Japan, where he drove DFM R&D activity in Japan. Before that, he served as the Fellow and the General Manager of Design Technology at STARC (Semiconductor Academic Research Center) in Japan. Prior to serving STARC, he worked for 34 years in Toshiba, where he engaged in wide ranging CAD R&D activities, including layout verification and VLSI design systems, and has served many management positions in Semiconductor Group, including senior managers of DA Development and ASIC Engineering, and a Senior Fellow.

He also served many Academic and Industry organizations as the chairs of conferences and committees. He is a Fellow of IEICE (Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers). He is the author of numerous technical papers and several US and Japanese patents.

Kenji received his B.S., M.S., and Dr. Eng. degrees in Electronic Engineering from Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.

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