Tetsuo Asano

Tetsuo Asano (浅野哲夫 (Asano Tetsuo), born 1949 in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan)[1] is a Japanese computer scientist, the president of the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology.

[2] His main research interest is in computational geometry.

Asano was a student at Osaka University, earning bachelor's, masters, and doctoral degrees there in 1972, 1974, and 1977.

He was on the faculty of Osaka Electro-Communication University from 1977 until 1998, when he joined JAIST.

From 2012 to 2014 he was dean of the School of Information Science at JAIST.