Yoshimasa Waseda

Yoshimasa Waseda is a corporate affiliate visiting fellow at Shorenstein APARC for 2011-12.  Prior to joining Shorenstein APARC, he has worked for the Japan Patent Office (JPO) since 1999.  He has worked as a patent examiner, handling patent applications in the field of semiconductor device manufacturing.  In 2010, he was in charge of policy planning of information searching.  He obtained his BS and MS in Metallurgy and Ceramics Science from Tokyo Institute of Technology.