Dr. Seiichiro Kawamura is on the Board of Directors and is also the Head of the R&D Strategy Department at Selete which is a consortium jointly established by 11 Japanese major Semiconductor Companies to focus on the research and development on advanced chip technologies including a National Project, MIRAI funded by NEDO/METI.

Previously, he had been engaged in developing advanced semiconductor technologies as the Device Development Director at Fujitsu until 2001. In April 2001, he was loaned from Fujitsu to the post of Executive Director of ASRC (Advanced Semiconductor Research Center) at AIST (the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology) to oversee the MIRAI Project as a Sub Project-Leader.

He received the B.S. degree in Applied Physics from the University of Tokyo, the M.S. degree in Solid State Physics from Princeton University, and the Ph.D degree in Electronic Engineering from Tohoku University.

Dr. Kawamura has served on the Technical Program Committees of several international conferences, and was the Program Chair and the General Chair of the Symposium on VLSI Technology in 1997 and 2003, respectively. He also served as a Subcommittee Chair on DIT (Device Interconnect Technology) of the 1997 IEDM, the Subcommittee Chair on Advanced Silicon Devices and Modeling of the 1999 SSDM and the Steering Committee Chair of SSDM in 2003.

He was also active in ITRS and was a member of International Roadmap Committee from 1998 to 2001 and a Vice Chair of STRJ (Semiconductor Technology Roadmap Committee of Japan) from 2000 to 2001.

He is currently the Japanese Subcommittee Chair of the VLSI-TSA (Technology, Systems, and Applications).