Masanori Hashimoto received the B.E., M.E., and Ph.D. degrees in communications and computer engineering from Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, in 1997, 1999, and 2001, respectively. He is currently a Professor with the Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University. His research interests include design for reliability, timing and power integrity analysis, reconfigurable computing, soft error characterization, and low-power circuit design.