Yuichiro Nakaya
Yuichiro Nakaya

SVP, CTO
Hitachi America, Ltd.

Yuichiro Nakaya

Yuichiro Nakaya is Sr. Vice President and CTO, General Manager, Research & Development Division of Hitachi America, Ltd. He is responsible for R&D strategy development, technology development, collaborative creation with customers, and open innovation in North America.

Nakaya joined the Central Research Laboratory of Hitachi, Ltd. in 1993 as a researcher in the area of video coding after completing his Ph.D. in electronics engineering at the University of Tokyo. He brings a wealth of research, management and business creation experience to his current position which he assumed in April 2022. Previously he served as Project Leader and Deputy General Manager of the Future Investment Division (2017-2022), General Manager of the Global Center for Social Innovation (2016), and research and management positions in the areas of digital media processing, robotics, wireless communications, biotechnology, production engineering, IT platform, physical security, etc. in both the U.S. and Japan. Nakaya was also with Hitachi America, Ltd. from 2000 to 2002 as Deputy Lab Manager of the Digital Media Systems Laboratory.

Nakaya is a member of IEEE, Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers (ITE), Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE) and Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ).

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