Satoshi Matsuoka (松岡 聡, Matsuoka Satoshi) is a Japanese computer scientist and the current head of the Riken Center for Computational Science (R-CCS) at RIKEN, the largest Supercomputing center in Japan.
In his student days, he worked for HAL Laboratory, a Japanese video game company, and co-developed Pinball and Rollerball for Nintendo Entertainment System with Satoru Iwata.
He also became a visiting professor at the Japanese National Institute of Informatics in 2002, and a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery in 2011.
Matsuoka was the lead developer of the TSUBAME supercomputer[2] program during his stay at the Global Scientific Information and Computing Center (GSIC) of the Tokyo Institute of Technology.
On April 1, 2018, he was appointed as the new director of the RIKEN Center for Computational Science (R-CCS), where he oversees the development of the Fugaku a.k.a.