Associate Professor

Christopher Ayala (S’07-M’13-SM’20) received the combined B.Eng./M.Sc. degree in 2009, and went on to complete his Ph.D. in 2012 from Stony Brook University, New York, USA in all  Electrical and Computer Engineering. From 2013 to 2015, he was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at IBM Research – Zurich, Switzerland. Since 2015, he has been with the Institute of Advanced Sciences, Yokohama National University, Japan where he is now an associate professor. His research interests include: emerging circuit technologies, superconductor logic, NEMS-MEMS, novel computer architectures, and electronic design automation.

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Dr. Ayala is a member of The Japan Society of Applied Physics (JSAP); Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers of Japan (IEICE); Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE); Eta Kappa Nu Electrical and Computer Engineering Honor Society; and Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society.

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Naoki Takeuchi received the B.S., M.E., and Ph.D. degrees from Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Japan, in 2008, 2010, and 2014, respectively, all in electrical and computer engineering. He was an electronic circuit designer at SONY from 2010 to 2011; a JSPS post-doctoral research fellow at the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) from 2014 to 2015; and a PRESTO researcher at the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) from 2015 to 2019. He has been with the Institute of Advanced Sciences, Yokohama National University since 2015, where he is currently an Associate Professor; and also with the Research Center for Emerging Computing Technologies, the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) since 2021, where he is currently a Senior Researcher. His research interests include superconductor logic, cryogenic detectors, and non von Neumann computing. Dr. Takeuchi is a member of the Japan Society of Applied Physics (JSAP); the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (ISICE) of Japan; and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).