Yoshio Nishi is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering (research) and also in the Department of Material Science and Engineering at the Stanford University since May 2002. He also serves as the director of the Stanford Nanofabrication Facility of National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network of the United States and director of research of the Center for Integrated Systems. He received a BS degree in materials science and a PhD in electronics engineering from Waseda University and the University of Tokyo, respectively.