Professor Hideo Miura

Prof. Hideo MIURA is Professor and Director of Fracture and Reliability Research Institute, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, Japan. He worked for Hitachi Ltd., Japan for about 20 years as a chief researcher of mechanical reliability of various products. Since he moved to Tohoku University in 2004, he has been engaged in the research on the characterization of the crystallinity of various materials in atomic-scale and visualization of the degradation process of the crystallinity and non-destructive inspection of the crystallinity. He holds over 170 patents in Japan and more than 80 patents in USA and EU. He is an author of over 250 technical papers in the field of mechanical reliability of materials and thin-film devices. Based on the research activities mentioned above, he received six ASME Best Conference Paper Awards in 1992, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2015, and 2019, IEEE Best Conference Papers Awards in 1993, 2011, 2013. He also received the Commendation for Science and Technology by the Japanese Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in 2017. He has served as a general chair, a program chair and a technical committee at a number of JSME, ASME, and IEEE conferences since 1987.