Miwako oversees the planning and implementation of the university’s international research and innovation partnerships with industry and academic institutions. She formulates strategies for outreach and fundraising and identifies potential international partners for UC San Diego research initiatives.
Miwako manages international collaborations through technology exchanges between academic and international industry communities. Since joining UC San Diego in 2014, she has played a pivotal role in fostering strong relationships with strategic partners across industry, academia, government, and public sectors in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam, and the UK and European countries in recent years.

As president and chief executive officer of San Diego Regional Economic Development Corporation (EDC), Mark Cafferty sits at the center of a unique partnership of business, trade, community, and education leaders who have reinvented the region’s economic development agenda.
Cafferty has spent decades designing and managing systems to support career advancement and economic opportunity for American workers, while also supporting the sustainability and success of American businesses. His more than a decade of leadership and service at EDC have positioned San Diego as a pillar of the global economy, while also establishing ‘inclusion’ as the foundation for the organization’s mission, goals, and work.
He previously served as CEO of the San Diego Workforce Partnership and deputy executive director for the Boston Private Industry Council—where he led the nation’s largest summer youth employment program in the summer of 2000.
Cafferty serves on numerous boards and committees, including the President’s Council at California State University San Marcos (CSUSM), and the board of directors for Curebound—a San Diego-based non-profit organization dedicated to curing cancer in our lifetime. He was recently honored by the USS Midway Museum with its 2026 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Bridge Builder Award for his work throughout the San Diego community.
A Boston native who now considers San Diego home, he earned a BA in marketing and communications from Assumption University, and his advanced certification in Performance Measurement and Non-Profit Management from Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. Cafferty was also selected as a Social Innovation Fellow at Stanford Graduate School of Business and received an honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters from CSUSM.
He resides in San Diego’s Point Loma neighborhood with his amazing wife, Dr. Charlene Kakimoto, and their two teenage sons. Charlene is a dermatologist and former lieutenant commander with the United States Navy.

半導体で博士号を取得後、約10年、民間企業において半導体の研究開発・事業化などに取り組んだのち、経済産業省に中途入省。入省後、一貫して半導体政策に携わり、半導体戦略の企画・立案や、様々なプロジェクトに関与。
【略歴】
2011年3月 東京工業大学大学院博士課程 修了
2011年4月 株式会社東芝 研究開発センター 入社
2017年5月 三菱電機株式会社 先端技術総合研究所 入社
2021年1月 経済産業省 商務情報政策局 情報産業課 デバイス・半導体戦略室 室長補佐
2025年5月 経済産業省 商務情報政策局 情報産業課 総括補佐
2026年7月 経済産業省 商務情報政策局 情報産業課 デバイス・半導体戦略室長
2026年8月 経済産業省 商務情報政策局 情報産業課 次世代半導体戦略室長

Monique Rodriguez is Vice President of Government Affairs at Qualcomm, where she leads policy engagement on international trade, technology, innovation, and regulatory issues, working with government and industry stakeholders across global markets.
 

2008年、大阪大学大学院基礎工学研究科博士前期課程修了。同年、ローム株式会社入社。
アナログLSIエンジニアとして、高周波電源IC「Nanoシリーズ」の開発・事業化に従事し、電源システムの小型化・高効率化に貢献。
その後、GaN事業において事業責任者を務め、国内外の顧客との技術・事業連携を推進するとともに、電源メーカとの協業を通じてGaNデバイスの市場展開を牽引した。
近年はAIデータセンターおよびAIサーバー市場を担当し、パワーデバイスとアナログICを組み合わせたシステムソリューションの企画・提案活動を主導。市場動向や顧客ニーズを踏まえた商品戦略立案から技術提案まで幅広く携わる。現場に足を運び、本質的な課題を見極めながら、自社技術を顧客価値へ転換することを信条としている。現在はAIサーバー市場向けマーケティング責任者として、次世代電源アーキテクチャの普及と新市場開拓に取り組んでいる。

東京工業大学 化学工学科 修士課程修了後、1998年に日立化成工業入社。封止材料開発部にて15年開発に従事。その間、Hitachi Chemical Co. America（現REA）に駐在、OxfordにてEMBA取得。マーケティングを担当　後、研磨材料ビジネスユニット長、パッケージングソリューションセンター長、開発センター長に就任、JOINT2・US-JOINTの立ち上げに従事。2024年、業務執行役およびエレクトロニクス事業本部副本部長を歴任し、2025年1月より現職に就任。

Albert P. Pisano was appointed Dean of the Jacobs School of Engineering at UC San Diego on September 1, 2013, where he holds the Walter J. Zable Chair. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2001, and the National Academy of Inventors in 2020. He is a Fellow of the ASME and the AAAS, and a member of IEEE.
Previously, Pisano served on the UC Berkeley faculty for 30 years where he held the FANUC Chair of Mechanical Systems and was co-director of the Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center. Since 1983, Pisano has graduated over 70 Ph.D. and 75 M.S. students. From 1997 to 1999, Pisano was a program manager for the MEMS Program at DARPA.
Pisano earned his undergraduate (’76) and graduate degrees (’77, ’80, ’81) in mechanical engineering at Columbia University. Prior to joining academia, he held research positions with Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, Singer Corporate R&D Center and General Motors Research Labs.
Pisano’s research interests include: micro electromechanical systems (MEMS) wireless sensors for harsh environments (600°C) such as gas turbines and geothermal wells; and additive, MEMS manufacturing techniques such as low-temperature, low-pressure nano-printing of nanoparticle inks and polymer solutions. He is a co-inventor listed on more than 36 patents in MEMS and has co-authored more than 400 archival publications.

1986年　東芝半導体技術研究所入社 DRAM 設計開発に従事
1987年　SDA（現Cadence）のEDAツールの導入立ち上げ
1996年　IBM@BTVに駐在 DDR SDRAM 開発に従事
1999年　ザインエレクトロニクス入社 0.35um@TSMCのPDKにて高速SerDes設計
2006年　Trigence Semiconductor 創業
2012年　Intel Capitalから第三者増資
2022年　Trigence Semiconductor 任意整理解散** /産総研 招聘研究員
**外部資金 ～25億円を調達するも 2019年 Series-D に失敗 2022年会社清算
2023年　株式会社 AIST Solutions, プロデューサー/産総研 招聘研究員
2024年　一般社団法人 OpenSUSI 代表理事

※ IEEE Senior member