Hiroki Sato is an assistant professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology. His research topics include transistor-level integrated circuit design, analog signal processing, embedded systems, computer network, and software technology in general. He was one of the FreeBSD core team members from 2006 to 2022, has been a FreeBSD Foundation board member since 2008, and has hosted AsiaBSDCon, an international conference on BSD-derived operating systems in Asia, since 2007.