Nagisa Ishiura was born in Kyoto, Japan.
He received B.E., M.E., and Ph.D. degrees in information science from
Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, in 1984, 1986, and 1991, respectively.
In 1987, he joined the Department of Information Science, Kyoto
University, where he was an instructor until April 1991. He joined the
Department of Information Systems Engineering, Osaka University,
Osaka, Japan, as a lecturer where he was promoted to Associate
Professor in December 1994. He has been a Professor at the Department
of Informatics, School of Science and Technology, Kwansei Gakuin
University since 2002. His current interests include system-level
design automation of VLSIs, optimization and test of compilers. He is
a member of ACM, IEEE, IEICE, and IPSJ.
