Mr. MASAHIRO INOHARA

Masahiro Inohara is the Chief Specialist at KIOXIA Corporation, currently involved in advanced packaging development and planning. He has over 30 years of experience in the semiconductor industry and began his career as a process and device development engineer for logic, SRAM, and analog ICs at TOSHIBA Corporation (the original company from which KIOXIA spun out). After serving for 2 years in the corporate strategy department, he moved to NAND flash memory division, where he developed 3D NAND flash memory across several generations, including hybrid bonding technology. He holds over 54 patents and has authored more than 14 publications. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in engineering science from Tsukuba University, Ibaraki, Japan, in 1991 and 1993, respectively.