Teruo Suzuki received a B.S. in electrical engineering from the Nagoya Institute of Technology and received his Ph.D. from Tsukuba University. In 1989, he joined Fujitsu Ltd. He started designing ESD protection circuits in 2002 after working on developing several ASSP products and launching a few processes for Fujitsu supercomputers.

In 2015, he moved to Socionext Inc., and he is working on the development and design of ESD protection devices and circuits of the entire Socionext as a principal engineer.

He has co-authored a book in the field of ESD. He is one of the core members of the Industry Council on ESD target levels. He is a member of the Technical Program Committee of the USA EOS/ESD Symposium, IRPS, ESREF, ICSICT, and T-ESDC.

He has been the general chair of the RCJ EOS/ESD/EMC symposium in Tokyo, Japan, since 2010. He received the best paper award in 1996, 1998, 2004 and 2012 from RCJ EOS/ESD/EMC symposium.