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: 小林久志 ''Kobayashi Hisashi''; born on June 13, 1938) is the
Sherman Fairchild
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University Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Emeritus
at
Princeton University
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in
Princeton, New Jersey
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. His fields of expertise include
applied probability
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Scope
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;
queueing theory
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;
system modeling
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digital communication
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and
networks
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Science and technology
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Mathematics
...
;
network architecture
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; investigation of the
Riemann hypothesis
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; and stochastic modeling of an infectious disease. He was a Senior Distinguished Researcher at the
National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
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(NICT), Japan from September 2008 to March 2016.
He was president of Friends of UTokyo, Inc. (FUTI), New York from April 2011 to September 2015, Chair of its Advisory Committee from September 2015 to September 2019, and an advisory member (September 2019 to present). He also serves on the board of directors, Armstrong Memorial Research Foundation, Inc. from September 2008 to August 2021.
Early life in Japan
Hisashi Kobayashi was born in
Tokyo, Japan
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.
The mathematician
Shoshichi Kobayashi
was a Japanese mathematician. He was the eldest brother of electrical engineer and computer scientist Hisashi Kobayashi. His research interests were in Riemannian and complex manifolds, transformation groups of geometric structures, and Lie alge ...
(1932–2012) was Hisashi's elder brother.
Hisashi studied at the
University of Tokyo
, abbreviated as or UTokyo, is a public research university located in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. Established in 1877, the university was the first Imperial University and is currently a Top Type university of the Top Global University Project by ...
, and completed a Bachelor of Engineering and Master of Engineering in
electrical engineering
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in 1961 and 1963, respectively. He was a recipient of Sugiyama Schloarship (1958–61) and RCA David Sarnoff Scholarship (1960).
He worked as a radar system designer at
Toshiba
, commonly known as Toshiba and stylized as TOSHIBA, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. Its diversified products and services include power, industrial and social infrastructure system ...
, Kawasaki in 1963–65.
Life and career in the United States
In 1965 Kobayashi came to the United States as a recipient of the Orson Desaix Munn Fellowship of Princeton University and received a PhD degree in electrical engineering in 1967.
He worked for the
IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
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at
Yorktown Heights, New York
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, for fifteen years (1967–1982). He was a research staff member in its Applied Research Department from 1967 to 1970, where he worked on seismic signal processing, data transmission theory, digital magnetic recording, and image compression algorithms. In 1971 he moved to its Computer Science Department as Manager of the then newly created, "System Measurement and Modeling" group, was promoted in 1976 to Senior Manager of "Systems Analysis and Algorithms", and in 1981 became Department Manager of "VLSI Design". During his tenure at IBM Research, he was granted sabbatical leaves to accept invitations from several institutions. He was a visiting professor at the
University of California, Los Angeles
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(September 1969 – March 1970),
University of Hawaii
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(July 1975 - December 1975),
Stanford University
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(January 1976 - June 1976),
Technische Universität Darmstadt
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(September 1979 – August 1980), and
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*Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), a D ...
(September 1980 - December 1980).
In 1982, Kobayashi was appointed the founding director of the IBM Japan Science Institute (later named as
IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory
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) in 1982, and served in that position until 1986, when he joined Princeton University's faculty as Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS), and the
Sherman Fairchild
Sherman Mills Fairchild (April 7, 1896 – March 28, 1971) was an American businessman and investor. He founded over 70 companies, including Fairchild Aircraft (Fairchild Aviation Corporation), Fairchild Industries, and Fairchild Camera and Inst ...
University Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
He was Dean from 1986–1991, and was responsible for establishing multiple interdisciplinary and/or inter-institutional centers and programs in academic disciplines as material science, opto-electronics, earthquake engineering, surface engineered materials, discrete mathematics for computer science, and plasma etching.
After finishing his tenure as Dean, he was an NEC C&C visiting professor at the RCAST (Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology), the University of Tokyo (1991–1992). Since the fall of 1992 until June 2008, he assumed a full-time research and teaching position at Princeton University's Department of Electrical Engineering.
He was a BC ASI Visiting Fellow at the
University of Victoria
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in Canada from 1998–1999.
He retired from Princeton University in June 2008. In the fall semesters of 2012-13, and 2013-14, however, Kobayashi was a visiting lecturer at Princeton University and taught a graduate course on "ELE 526: Random processes in information systems".
He was a distinguished researcher (part-time) at the National Institute of Information and communications technology (NICT) of Japan in 2008–2016.
Since 2016 he has been challenging the Riemann hypothesis. Since 2020, he is actively pursuing a new stochastic model of an infectious disease.
Humboldt Prize
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(Senior U.S. Scientist Award) from
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
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Eduard Rhein Foundation The Eduard Rhein Foundation was founded in 1976 in Hamburg (Germany) by Eduard Rhein. The goal of the foundation is to promote scientific research, learning, arts, and culture. This is done in particular by granting awards for outstanding achievemen ...
of Germany, with Dolivo and Eleftheriou, for their contributions for their pioneering contributions to PRML (Partial-Response, Maximum-Likelihood), which allowed dramatic increases in the storage capacity of computer hard disks.
* 2006: Guest speech at the Entrance Ceremony of the
University of Tokyo
, abbreviated as or UTokyo, is a public research university located in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. Established in 1877, the university was the first Imperial University and is currently a Top Type university of the Top Global University Project by ...
, Graduate School
* 2012:
C&C Prize
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from NEC Foundation, Japan for his "pioneering and leading contributions both to the invention of high-density and highly reliable digital recording technology and to the creation and development of a performance-evaluation methodology for computer and communication systems."
* 2019: Honorary Doctorate Degree from
Ghent University
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Established before the state of Belgium itself, the university was founded by the Dutch King William I in 1817, when the ...
, Belgium for his "research contributions in queuing theory, systems performance modeling and evaluation, the
Riemann hypothesis
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." University of Ghen article an photos from ceremony.
List of books
* ''Probability, Random Processes and Statistical Analysis'' (2012), coauthored by Brian L. Mark and William Turin, Cambridge University Press.
* ''System Modeling and Analysis: Foundations of System Performance Evaluation''(2009), coauthored with Brian L. Mark, Pearson/Prentice Hall.
* ''Modeling and Analysis: An Introduction to System Performance Evaluation Methodology''(1978)，Addison-Wesley Publishing Company.
External links
Dean of Faculty, Princeton University, Hisashi Kobayashi Friends of UTokyo, Inc. Hisashi Kobayashi's Blog