Kanemitsu Ootsu received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from University of Tokyo in 1993 and 1995 respectively, and later he obtained his Ph.D. in Information Science and Technology from University of Tokyo in Japan. From 1997 to 2009, he is a research associate and then an assistant professor at Utsunomiya University. Since 2009, he is an associate professor at Utsunomiya University. His research interests are in high-performance computer architecture, multi-core multithread processor architecture, binary translation, and run-time optimization.