Toshio Endo is a professor at the Global Scientific Information and Computing Center (GSIC) of Tokyo Institute of Technology. His research interests include high performance and low power computing, including large scale machine learning and scientific computations. He led a JST (Japan Science and Technology Agency) CREST project, "Software Technology that Deals with Deeper Memory Hierarchy in Post-petascale Era" (2012-2018). He has a Ph.D. in science from the University of Tokyo (2001). He won the ACM Gordon Bell Prizes for 2011, and the Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in 2012.