Taisuke Boku has been researching HPC system architecture, system software, and performance evaluation on various scientific applications. He is currently the Director for Center for Computational Sciences, University of Tsukuba, a co-designing center with both application researchers and HPC system researchers. He has been playing a central roles for development of original supercomputers in the center including CP-PACS (ranked as number one in TOP500 in 1996), FIRST, PACS-CS, HA-PACS, Cygnus and Pegasus systems, the representative supercomputers in Japan. He was the President of HPCI (High Performance Computing

Infrastructure) Consortium in Japan in 2020-2022 and also the Vice President in 2024-2026. He was a member of system architecture working group of Fugaku supercomputer development. He received ACM Gordon Bell Prize in 2011. He is currently one of the Program Directors of the Feasibility Study of the next generation supercomputer in Japan under MEXT.