Dr. Toda is initially a key advisor during Cell Technology was reformed to a network technology startup in Asia Pacific. He provides Cell Technology invaluable introductions; technology & development insight, formulate strategic direction and formation of partnership alliance in Japanese market.
Dr. Toda is
a pioneer of the computer industry in Japan over 40 years of technology research & development, engineering and executive management experience. As a Researcher at NTT in 1958, he was engaged in the research of a parametron computer called MUSASINO 1(the second oldest computer in Japan) and then led the design of a telephone billing computer CM-100, a PL/1 compiler, and the development of DIPS large-scale online computer series. He then became Manager & Director at NTT of the development projects for DIPS computers, DCNA network architecture and establishing advanced laboratories focusing on the development of data communication and processing. These projects contributed not only to improve the NTT business but also to foster the computer industry in Japan.
In 1988, Dr. Toda was promoted to be Senior Executive Vice president of R&D at NTT. NTT's R&D was a Japanese counterpart of Bell Telephone Laboratories, covering the areas from basic research, material science, electronic devices, sub-systems to application with more than 8,000 engineers and scientists.
In 1992 he was recruited by
Fujitsu as Executive Vice President of its Network Development Business Group which he developed to generate revenue of $200M. From 1997 to 2004, Dr. Toda worked as a Fujitsu Fellow at
Fujitsu Laboratories focusing on network QoS and e-commerce.
In 2004 he founded
Studio IT LLP, a consulting partnership, with the people who share of concerns about "NIH" or "Island View" of Japanese IT industry and academia. Studio IT aims at achieving the collaboration in the world wide industries by being direct involvement as a Business Advisor. In addition, he serves as an advisor for
ATA Ventures (a Silicon Valley Venture Capital).
Dr. Toda was a visiting professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of California in Berkeley, at
Waseda University and
Tokyo Engineering University in Japan as well as the invited lectures at MIT,
Tokyo University,
Nagoya University and many others. He published a dozen of books and more than thirty papers, and he gave more than twenty keynote/invited talks at the prominent international conferences such as Telecom, Globecom, ISS and ICDCS.
He was also a member of Japan Science Council, President of Information Processing Society of Japan and President of Japan Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics. He holds a BSc, MSc and PhD Degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Tokyo. Dr. Toda is a fellow of IEEE, Information Processing Society of Japan and the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers of Japan.
He received many awards, including Achievement Award by Director General, Science and Technology Agency, IEEE Third Millennium Award, The Computer Society Outstanding Contribution Award and Golden Core Member, the Information Processing Society of Japan Contribution Award, Institute of Electronic, Information and Communications Engineers of Japan Achievement Award and Okawa Award for the best technical book of the year 2001. He was awarded with the violet ribbon decoration from the Emperor in 1997. His areas of expertise cover computer architecture, computer networking, software engineering, e-Commerce, R&D management.
