Synge Todo

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  • Name: Synge Todo (藤堂眞治, とうどうしんじ)
  • Academic/Professional Career
    11/1968
    Born in Matsuyama, Japan
    4/1987 - 3/1991
    Undergraduate student at Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo
    4/1991 - 3/1996
    PhD student at Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo
    4/1996 - 8/1996
    COE (Center of Excellence) Researcher at Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo
    9/1996 - 5/2002
    Research Associate at Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo
    12/2000 - 5/2002
    Swiss National Science Foundation PostDoc at Theoretical Physics, ETH Zurich
    6/2002 - 10/2011
    Lecturer at Department of Applied Physics, University of Tokyo
    10/2011 - 01/2014
    Project Professor at Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo
    01/2014 - 07/2018
    Associate Professor at Department of Physics, University of Tokyo
    Associate Professor at Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo (joint appointment)
    08/2015 - 03/2017
    NIMS Invited Researcher at Center for Materials Research by Information Integration, National Institute for Materials Science (joint appointment)
    04/2017 - 07/2018
    Associate Professor at Mathematics and Informatics Center, University of Tokyo (joint appointment)
    04/2017 - 03/2020
    NIMS Special Researcher at Center for Materials Research by Information Integration (CMI2), Research and Services Division of Materials Data and Integrated System (MaDIS), National Institute for Materials Science (joint appointent)
    08/2018 -
    Professor at Department of Physics, University of Tokyo
    Professor at Mathematics and Informatics Center, University of Tokyo (joint appointment)
    Professor at Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo (joint appointment)
    10/2020 -
    Professor at Institute for Physics of Intelligence, University of Tokyo (joint appointment)
    06/2021 -
    Project Professor at Quantum Software Project, University of Tokyo (joint appointment)
    10/2021 -
    Professor at Next Generation Artificial Intelligence Research Center, University of Tokyo (joint appointment)
  • Awards
    • Prizes for Science and Technology, The Commendation for Science and Technology by MEXT Japan (April 2019)
  • Nationality: Japanese
  • Family: 1 wife + 4 children + 1 cat + 3 parents + 5 siblings + 5 niblings + ...
  • Words to live by
    • Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti!
    • If life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
  • Favorite books
    • Meditations (Marcus Aurelius Antoninus)
    • The Old Testament
    • The Art of Computer Programming (Donald Knuth)
  • Interests and Hobbies
    • Horticulture
    • Photography
    • Swimming, Jogging
    • Debugging programs written by my students :-)
  • Language
    • Japanese, English (and some Swiss German)
    • C++/C, Fortran 77/90/95, Java, Perl, Python, Bourne Shell, HTML, XML, JavaScript, etc
  • Licenses and Eertificates
    • Automobile, Motorcycle, Motorboat, Network Engineer, Electrical Engineering Technician