ZEMPO
YASUNARI
Ph.D. (Physics), Professor, The Department of Digital Media, Computational Physics Lab, Hosei University, Tokyo, Japan
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Yasunari Zempo was born in Kure, Japan on May 18, 1956. He received the B.S. and M.S. degree from Hiroshima University in 1980, and 1982, respectively. In the field of theoretical materials science, he received Ph.D. in physics from Hiroshima University, Japan in 1985. He was formerly with Tsukuba Research Laboratory, Sumitomo Chemical, where he was engaged in the computational materials science, and its practical applications using very large scale computers. He was an experienced researcher in the industry, until he joined the faculty of Computer and Information Sciences at Hosei University, in 2009.
Research area:
- Computational materials science;
- Development of computational techniques for material design and property prediction;
- Large-scale parallel computing.
He is a member of the physical society of Japan, American physical society, and the Japan society for industrial and applied mathematics.