Yukinori Sato is a Specially Appointed Associate Professor (Lecturer) at Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan. His research interests lie in the broad area of high performance computing system, computer system architecture, reconfigurable computing and software and tools for them. In particular, he has been working on developing productive software for parallelism discovery and performance tuning, and a tool for run-time application analysis. He received the Ph.D. degree on Information Sciences from Tohoku University. From 2006, he engaged in software engineering for multicore systems and system design of embedded devices in a start-up company. From 2007 to 2015, he was an Assistant Professor at Japan Advanced Institute of Technology. He is a member of the IEEE Computer Society, the ACM, the IEICE and the Information Processing Society of Japan.