Satoshi Goto was born on January 3rd, 1945 in Hiroshima, Japan. He received the B.E. degree and the M.E. degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Waseda University in 1968 and 1970,　respectively. He also received the Dr. of Engineering from the same university in 1981. He joined Central Research Laboratories of NEC in 1970 and worked for NEC for 32 years until 2003. He was General Manager of C&C Media Research Laboratories and Vice President in charge of computer, software and networking research. After leaving NEC in 2003,　he became Professor at Graduate School of Information, Production and Systems at Waseda University, Kitakyushu in April, 2003.　

In research, Dr. Goto worked on Computer Aided Design for VLSI, Artificial Intelligence approach to VLSI design and combinatorial optimization methods for large scale problems. He is co-author and author of over 100 papers in VLSI design and Computer Aided Design. He also has edited and co-edited 7 books. His contributions in computer aided design includes design automation system for Gate-Array layout design, artificial intelligence approach to VLSI design and combinatorial optimization for VLSI placement problem. Dr. Goto’s current research interest is system LSI design methodology and new design tools for multimedia processing, networking functions with security or cryptography for the Next Generation Internet or Super Internet.