He received his Ph. D. from Kobe University, Japan in 2008. Dr. Yamanaka worked at Department of Mechano-Aerospace, Tokyo Institute of Technology as an assistant professor during 2008-2012. Dr. Yamanaka published more than 50 papers related to the research on phase-field modeling of diffusional and displacive solid phase transformations in steels [1,2] and crystal plasticity finite element simulation of sheet metal forming. In 2011, Dr. Yamanaka and co-workers won the ACM Gordon Bell Prize Special Achievements in Scalability and Time-to-Solution for the achievement of extreme large-scale phase-field simulation of dendritic solidification in Al-Si binary alloy.