Seiji Nishimura

Seiji Nishimura is a Japanese software engineer specializing in supercomputing. He is currently working for DENSO Corporation. Prior to DENSO, he used to work for Huawei, Cray, Inc. and SGI.

He has been involved in parallel computing since the mid-1990s, when distributed-memory parallel computers started to appear in the market, and has over 25 years of experience in distributed-memory parallel programming. His technical interests are mainly in performance scalability and performance portability of parallel programs. He has in-depth experience with the various parallel programming models prevailing today, including SYCL, OpenCL, OpenMP, MPI, Unified Parallel C, and Co-Array Fortran. Also, he is known to have been the record holder of the Himeno benchmark test. He has won the HPC benchmark contest organized by RIKEN three times in 2005, 2007 and 2008. He earned B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Information and Computer Sciences from Saitama Univ. in 1999 and 2001, respectively.

His hobby is art appreciation, and he is interested in netsuke and Japanese sword fittings (the Muromachi period dragon menuki). He is a member of the Japan Netsuke Society and the International Netsuke Society.

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