Kentaro Sano is the leader of the processor research team and the advanced AI device development unit at RIKEN Center for Computational Science (R-CCS) since 2017, responsible for research and development of future processors and systems for HPC and AI. He is also a visiting professor with an advanced computing system laboratory at Tohoku University. He received his Ph.D. from the graduate school of information sciences, Tohoku University, in 2000. From 2000 until 2018, he was a Research Associate and an Associate Professor at Tohoku University. He was a visiting researcher at the Department of Computing, Imperial College, London, and Maxeler Technology corporation in 2006 and 2007. Nowadays he leads the architecture research group in the feasibility study project for the next-generation supercomputer development in Japan. His research interests include data-driven and spatial-parallel processor architectures such as a coarse-grain reconfigurable array (CGRA), FPGA-based high-performance reconfigurable computing, high-level synthesis compilers and tools for reconfigurable custom computing machines, and system architectures for next-generation supercomputing based on the dataflow computing model.