Resume of Munehiro Nakazato PERSONAL: Munehiro Nakazato Technical Lead Sony Electronics, Inc. 1730 N. First St. San Jose, CA (408) 910-4178 mune@nakazato.org http://www.nakazato.org/~nakazato OBJECTIVES: Object-Oriented Software architecture design and development. EDUCATION: Ph.D. Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2003 M.E. Computer Science, Keio University, Japan, 1997 B.E. Electrical Engineering, Keio University, Japan, 1995 SKILLS: - H.264/AVC Video Codec - Embedded Realtime Systems - Multimedia, Machine Learning, Image Processing. - Programming Languages: C/C++ (15 years), JAVA AWT/Swing (10 years), Perl, Ruby, Objective-C, MATLAB, Csh, LISP/Scheme, Lex/Yacc, LaTeX and SQL. - Win32, MFC, Cocoa, OpenGL, CAVE, X-Windows, CLAPACK, CGI. - XML, HTML, CSS, JavaScript. - UNIX System Programming (12 years, POSIX, Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD) - TCP/IP Network Programming - J2EE (Servlet, JSP, JDBC), Java RMI/JNI, Java 2D. - System Administration: UNIX, WindowsNT/2000, MacOS 9, OS X, Apache, Tomcat. - Languages: English and Japanese EXPERIENCE: (2006-Present) Technical Lead, Sony Electronics, Inc., San Jose, CA - Leading development of H.264 Video CODEC algorithm and firmware for a media processor for digital still cameras and camcorder. - Designing algorithms of Motion estimation HW. - Rate control algorithm developemnt and evaluation. - Firmware architecture design and development. (2003-2006) Senior Engineer, Sony Electronics, Inc., San Jose, CA - Video Codec for Embedded Systems. - Embedded SW development for Programmable SoC Solutions for H.264/AVC Video Encoder/Decoder. - Software Architect : Leading development of a realtime AVC encoder SW for an embedded media processor. - Software Architect : Designed SW architecture of AVC HD decoder for an embedded media processor. - Algorithm optimization & Code tuning of H.264 encoder. - SIMD optimization of H.264. Involved in SIMD instruction set design for video processing. - Developed SW model of Motion Estimation HW for a camcorder. (1999-2003) Research Assistant, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - System Architecture for Networked Multimedia Information Retrieval Middleware - User Interface for Digital Image Management Systems. - Web Service for distributed content-based multimedia data retrieval. - Client-Server network communication for negotiating search scheme for dynamic resource discovery. - Efficient File structure for high-dimensional numerical data. - Statistical Learning Algorithm for mining multimedia data. - Distributed Collaborative Information Sharing and Retrieval. - Ubiquitous Computing Environment for multimedia visualization/Search in Virtual Reality with wireless-equipped portable devices. (2000) Programmer and Adviser, Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. Hamamatsu, Japan. - Designed and implemented a web service for multimedia travel information system, with which the users search travel information with keywords, pictures and maps. - Advised on the integration of web services, multimedia database and Oracle with J2EE. (1997) Research Programmer, Sony Computer Science Laboratory, Inc. Tokyo, Japan - Research on "Ubiquitous Computing VCR system," a speech and gesture activated video recording system. - Implemented the Graphical User Interface and Speech Recognition Interface. (1995-1997) Research Assistant, Keio University, Yokohama, Japan - Designed and implemented "Agent-Oriented Information Base," a distributed information system which automatically learns the query preference based on the user's behavior. - Implemented messaging protocol between user hosts and servers - Studied negotiation scheme for software agents on behalf of their own users. - Sponsored by Information Technology Promotion Agency of Japan. (1995-1997) Computer Instructor, Sony, Tokyo, Japan - Tutored the employee UNIX System Administration. - Edited the text books. (1995-1997) Network Administration Committee, Keio University, Yokohama, Japan - Established the policy of network administration of the campus. (1995) Teaching Assistant, Keio University, Yokohama, Japan - Tutored students Computer system organization and machine language programming. HONORS, AWARDS: (March, 2002) The Best Paper Award, 5th International Conference on Visual Information Systems (2001-2002) The President of Illini Japanese Association SELECTED PUBLICATIONS: Munehiro Nakazato and Thomas S. Huang, "Group-Oriented User Interface for Digital Image Management," Demonstration at International Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST2002), 2002. Munehiro Nakazato and Thomas S. Huang, "Extending Image Retrieval with Group-Oriented Interface," In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2002), Lausanne, Switzerland, August 26-29, 2002. Munehiro Nakazato, Ljubomir Manola and Thomas S. Huang, "Group-based Interface for Content-based Image Retrieval," In Proceedings of Advanced Visual Interfaces 2002 (AVI 2002), Trento, Italy, May 22-24, 2002. Munehiro Nakazato, Ljubomir Manola and Thomas S. Huang, "ImageGrouper: Search, Annotate and Organize Images by Groups," In Proceedings of Fifth International Conference on Visual Information Systems (VISual 2002), HsinChu, Taiwan, March 11-13, 2002. Munehiro Nakazato and Thomas S. Huang, "3D MARS: Immersive Virtual Reality for Content-Based Image Retrieval," In Proceedings of 2001 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME2001), Tokyo, August 22-25, 2001.