Kazushi KawamuraView profile
Assistant Professor
Kazushi Kawamura is an Assistant Professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology 's AI Computing Research Unit , with prior roles at Waseda University and the Institute of Science Tokyo. His academic journey began at Waseda University, where he earned a Dr. Eng in 2016. 2025.04 - Now: Assistant Professor, School of Fundamental Science and Engineering, Tokyo Tech 2024.10 - 2025.03: Assistant Professor, School of Fundamental Science and Engineering, Waseda 2020.04 - 2025.03: Specially Appointed Assistant Professor, Institute of Integrated Research, Institute of Science Tokyo His research spans combinatorial optimization , annealing processors , Ising machines , and FPGA-based computing systems . He has contributed extensively to LSI design methodology and high-level synthesis . Key publication trends include neural network compression , parallel annealing algorithms , edge AI inference , and sparse matrix operations on FPGAs. His work often integrates theoretical optimization with practical hardware implementations . 2023 CS Achievement Award 2016 ISOCC Best Paper Multiple Algorithm Design Contest Prizes (2014-2019) IPSJ SLDM Outstanding Student Awards Kawamura teaches courses like Physical Electronics Laboratory and Machine Learning at Waseda, with recent projects such as Amorphica (metamorphic annealer) and Pianissimo (sub-mW DNN accelerator). He serves on committees for IEEE , IPSJ , and IEICE , focusing on system design and circuit optimization.






