Dr. ITOH Kiyoo
Fellow, Hitachi, Ltd.
1-280 Higashi-Koigakubo,
Kokubunji-shi, Tokyo 185-8601, JAPAN
Tel: +81-(0)42-323-1111 Fax: +81-(0)42-327-7699
E-mail: kiyoo.itoh (please add ".pt@hitachi.com" to complete the address)
Date & Place of Birth: January 1941 (Miyagi, Japan)
Employment & Professional Activities:
| 1999.06 - present | Fellow, Hitachi Ltd. |
| 2000.06.01 - 2002.05.31 | Consulting Professor, Stanford University, U.S.A. |
| 1995.06.01 - 1995.08.10 | Visiting Professor, University of Waterloo, Canada |
| 1994.04.01 - 1994.10.20 | Visiting MacKay Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A. |
| 1993.04.07 - 1994.03.31 | Lectures at Graduate School of Engineering, Yamagata University, Japan |
| 1992.04.01 - 1995.03.31 | Lectures at Graduate School of Engineering, Waseda University, Japan |
| 1989.09.21 - 1990.03.31 | Lectures at Graduate School of Engineering, Musashi Institute of Technology |
| 1997.02.21 - 1999.06.28 | Senior Chief Scientist - Corporate Technology, Hitachi, Ltd. |
| 1991.12.21 - 1997.02.20 | Senior Chief Scientist, Central Research Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd. |
| 1983.02.21 - 1991.02.20 | Chief Scientist, Central Research Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd. |
| 1976.08.21 - 1983.02.20 | Senior Researcher, Central Research Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd. |
| 1963.04.01 | Joined Central Research Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd. |
Professional Affiliations:
IEEE
2009 Plenary Speaker, ISSCC; 2008 Invited Speaker, TENCON; 2008 Invited Speaker,
ICSICT; 2008 Invited Speaker, ICICDT; 2008 Invited Speaker,
FTFC; 2008 Invited Speaker, ULIS; 2007 Invited Speaker,
ICECS; 2007 Invited Speaker, EDSSC; 2007 Invited Speaker,
ESSCIRC; 2007 Invited Speaker, FTFC; 2007 Invited Speaker,
GLSVLSI; 2006 Invited Speaker, International SOI Conference; 2006 Invited speaker,
NEWCAS; 2006 Invited Speaker, SSCS DLP; 2006 Invited Speaker,
ISCAS; 2006 Invited Speaker, MIEL; 2006 Invited Speaker,
National Chiao Tung University, IEEE CAS Taipei Chapter; 2006 Invited Speaker,
National Taiwan University, IEEE CAS Taipei Chapter; 2005 Invited Speaker,
Analog VLSI Workshop; 2005 Invited Speaker, FTFC; 2005 Invited Speaker,
ICICDT; 2005 Invited Speaker, SSCS DLP, Patras (Greece); 2005 Invited Speaker,
IEEE Workshop on Issues in Low Power VLSI Design, New Delhi; 2005 Invited Speaker,
IEEE Workshop on Low Power Design Techniques, Bangalore; 2004 Invited Speaker, CICC; 2004 Invited Speaker,
PATMOS; 2004 Plenary Speaker, SOCC; 2004 Invited Speaker and Panelist,
NEWCAS; 2004 Tutorial Speaker, MELECON; 2004 ISSCC Panelist; 2004 Panelist,
Symp. LSI Circuits; 2003 Invited Speaker, EDSSC; 2003 Panelist, Symp.
VLSI Circuits; 2003 Invited Speaker, FTFC; 2003- SSCS Distinguished Lecturer;
2002 Invited Speaker, PATMOS; 2002 SSCS Nomination Committee; 2002 Keynote
Speaker, ISLPED; 2002 Invited Speaker, MIEL; 2001 Invited Speaker, FTFC;
2001-2003 SSCS AdCom Member; 2000 Invited Speaker, CAS; 2000-2002 IEEE
Fellow Committee; 1998-2000/2003- SSCS Award Committee; 1997 Tutorial
Speaker, ISLPED; 1996 Invited Speaker, Symp. VLSI Circuits; 1995 ISLED
Program Committee; 1994 Invited Speaker, Symp. Low Power Electronics (SLPE);
1994-1995 SLPE Program Committee; 1993 Invited Speaker, Workshop on Low
Power Electronics; 1991 Invited Speaker, Int. Conf. Solid-Sate Devices
and Materials; 1989 Invited Speaker, Int. Symp. VLSI Tech., Systems and
Applications; 1989 Chair, ISSCC DRAM Session; 1987-1989 ISSCC Far East
Program Committee; 1987/2002 ESSCIRC Corresponding Member; 1985/1999 Invited
Speaker, ESSCIRC; 1984/1990/2003 ISSCC Panelist; 1981 Invited Speaker,
Symp. VLSI Technology.
Others
2008 Invited Speaker, Tsinghua Information Forum; 2008 Tutorial Speaker,
ICICDT; 2007 Invited Speaker, Dr. Dennard Benjamin Franklin Medal Ceremony; 2002 Invited Speaker,
3rd Int. Workshop on Interconnect Hierarchy,
IMEC; 2001 Invited Speaker, VLSI02, IFIP Int. Conf. VLSI; 1999 Tutorial Speaker,
POSEIDON Workshop (ESPRIT); 1998 Invited Speaker, 30th Anniversary of
the 1-T Cell Invention by Dr. Dennard, IBM; 1998 Invited Speaker, "Fifty
Years and Counting" Session, 18th Int. Symp. Silicon Mat. Sci. and Tech.,
ECS; 1997 Tutorial Speaker, VLSI1997, IFIP Int. Conf. VLSI; 1995/1996
Invited Speaker, Int. Conf. Microelect.; 1989/1990/1993 Invited Speaker,
IEICE.
Editorial Boards:
| 1998-present | Editor-in-chief of Advanced Microelectronics series, Springer-Verlag |
| 1990 | Guest Editor, IEICE |
| 1981-1984 | Publication Committee, IEICE |
Education:
| 1976.11.11 | D.Eng. Tohoku University, Electrical Engineering |
| 1963.03.31 | B.Sc. Tohoku University, Electrical Engineering |
Awards & Recognitions:
| 2009.02.09 | IEEE ISSCC2009 Service Award for his plenary talk |
| 2008.05.27 | Fellow, Honorary Member of IEICE |
| 2007.05.25 | Distinguished Achievement and Contributions Award of IEICE |
| 2006.06.24 | IEEE Jun-ichi Nishizawa Medal for pioneering contributions to dynamic random access memory (DRAM) cell structures and architecture |
| 2005.09.21 | Fellow of IEICE |
| 2003.11.05 | The Significant Invention Award, Tokyo Section of Japan Institute of Invention and Innovation (JIII) for subthreshold-current reduction circuits |
| 2001.10.26 | The Significant Invention Award, President of Tokyo Section of JIII for DRAM voltage-down converter |
| 2000.10 | The Significant Invention Award, Governor of Yamanashi-prefecture, Yamanashi Section of JIIII for PMOS boosted word driver |
| 2000.05.16 | National Medal of Honour with Purple Ribbon for the folded data-line DRAMs (Japanese Government) |
| 1997.04.16 | Commendation by the Minister of State for Science and Technology to Persons of Scientific and Technological Merits for the folded data-line cell |
| 1996.01.01 | IEEE Fellow; for seminal and sustained contributions to high-density DRAMs |
| 1995.10.20 | The Significant Invention Award, President of Tokyo Section of JIII for voltage-down converter |
| 1994.05.14 | Best Paper Award of IEICE for voltage-down converter |
| 1993.02.24 | IEEE Solid-State Circuits Award for technical contributions to folded data-line circuits and the developments of high-density DRAMs |
| 1991.09.10 | Best Paper Award of the 1990 European Solid-Circuits Conference for 1.5-V 64-Mb DRAM |
| 1990.11.13 | The best of what's new, Popular Science (USA) for 1.5-V 64-Mb DRAM |
| 1990.05.19 | The Outstanding Achievement Award of IEICE for multi-megabit DRAMs |
| 1989.06.06 | The National Invention Award, Prize of the Patent Attorney's Association of Japan, for invention in DRAMs |
| 1988.10.20 | The Significant Invention Award, Tokyo Section of JIII for the folded data-line cells |
| 1988.10.01 | The Prize of the Governor of Tokyo for for development of new technology |
| 1985.06.17 | 1984 IEEE Electron Devices Society Paul Rappaport Award for a corrugated capacitor cell (CCC) |
Patents & Papers:
Dr. Itoh holds 230 patents in Japan, and 208 patents in the U.S. including
seminal RAM circuits such as the folded data line, on-chip voltage-down
converter, and gate-source self-back biasing schemes to reduce sub-threshold
current. He has authored four books and two book chapters on memory designs,
and more than 168 IEEE-related technical papers and presentation including over 60 invited talks.
Research Interests:
*Studies of low-power/low-voltage
CMOS LSIs and high-density RAMs.
(revised 1st April 2009 by K. Itoh)
