Yoichiro Tanaka is a professor at the Research Institute of Electrical Communication (RIEC) at Tohoku University. He received Bachelor and Master degrees in Communications Engineering and a Ph.D degree in Electronic Engineering from Tohoku University, where he did his thesis research on perpendicular magnetic recording physics and storage systems integrations. He worked in Toshiba’s storage device business and in academia over 30 years. He was devoted to the validation and development of PMR and achieved the realization of the world’s first PMR HDD in 2005. His career includes the development of giant magnetoresistive heads, perpendicular granular thin film media, and recently a new computational storage system with integrated big data analytics capability. He won the Nikkei BP Technology Awards (1997, 2006), the Magnetics Society of Japan Achievement Award (2006) and the Okochi Memorial Prize (2007). He is a senior member of IEEE and a member of the Magnetics Society Administrative Committee for a three-year term 2022-2024. He is also a fellow of the Magnetics Society of Japan (MSJ). He is currently serving as the Secretary General for the Internatinal Magnetics Conference (INTERMAG 2023 Sendai).

Contact: Yoichiro Tanaka, Research Institute of Electrical Communication, Tohoku University, 2-1-1 Katahira, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Japan 980-8577; e-mail: yoichiro.tanaka.e1@tohoku.ac.jp