Education
Carnegie Mellon University (Jul. 2001 - Jun. 2005)
- Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science, August 2005
- Ph.D. thesis: Analysis of multiserver systems via dimensionality reduction of Markov chains
- Adviser: Prof. Mor Harchol-Balter
- Thesis committee: Prof. Mor Harchol-Balter, Prof. Hui Zhang, Prof. Bruce M. Maggs, Prof. Alan Scheller-Wolf (Tepper School of Business), Dr. Mark S. Squillante (IBM Research)
- Teaching assistant at undergraduate courses:
Great Theoretical Ideas in Computer Science I (spring, 2003)
Algorithms (fall, 2003) -- Received an excellent student review of overall rating 3.71/4.00. Faculty course evaluation achieved the highest rating in the history of the course. - Teaching assistant at a graduate course:
Theory of Performance Modeling (fall, 2003)
University of Tokyo (Jun. 1999 - Mar. 2000)
- Visiting Researcher at Imai Laboratory, Department of Information Science
- Adviser: Prof. Hiroshi Imai
University of Tokyo (Apr. 1994 - Mar. 1998)
- Bachelor of Electronic Engineering, Mar. 1998
- Senior thesis: An Optical Clock Signal Distribution System Using Synchronous Receiver Circuits
- Adviser: Prof. Koichiro Hoh and Prof. Minoru Fujishima
- GPA: 3.90
Patents
- JP4465417: Customer segment estimation apparatus (Granted, Mar. 5, 2010)
- JP4386456: Technique of determining performing order of processes (Granted, Oct. 9, 2009)
- US7562004: Determining better configuration for computerized system (Granted, Jul. 14, 2009)
- A System to decide the optimal policy for a Markov decision process using... (Pending)
- A method for quickly finding the optimal Web-system configuration by... (Pending)
- A method for optimizing and navigation of design... (Pending)
- Estimation of waiting times from... (Pending)
- A scheduling method for reducing setup times using... (Pending)
- Method for incorporating latest information in... (Pending)
- Finding optimally risk-sensitive actions by... (Pending)
- Optimally allocating virtual machines... (Pending)
- Approximate evaluation of iterated... (Pending)
- Markov decision process for optimizing... (Pending)
- A method for selecting paths... (Pending)
- Efficient evaluation of average cost... (Pending)
- A power prediction system... (Pending)
- A character screening method... (Pending)
- A battery degradation estimation method... (Pending)
- Personality estimation... (Pending)
Referee for Journals
2012
- Journal of the Operations Research Society of Japan
2011
- Performance Evaluation (2)
- Journal of Systems and Software
- Reliability Engineering & System Safety
- International Journal of Systems Science
- Computer Networks Journal
2010
- Performance Evaluation (3)
- IIE Transactions
- IPSJ Transactions on Advanced Computing Systems
- IEICE Transactions
2009
- Performance Evaluation
- IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics - Part B
- Communications in Statistics -- Theory and Methods
- Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory
- IEICE Transactions
- IPSJ Transactions on Advanced Computing Systems
- International Journal of Information and Decision Sciences
- International Journal of Information Systems in Service Sector
2008
- Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory (2)
- Journal of the ACM
- IEICE Transactions
- International Journal of Information and Decision Sciences
- International Journal of Information Systems in Service Sector
2007
- Performance Evaluation (3)
- European Journal of Operational Research
- IEEE Transactions on Communications
- INFORMS Journal on Computing
- Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory
2006
- Performance Evaluation (2)
- Queueing Systems: Theory and Applications (QUESTA)
- Journal of Mathematical Modelling and Algorithms
- Telecommunication Systems
2005 or before
- Performance Evaluation (3)
- Journal of the ACM
Referee for Conferences
2012
- ICML (2)
2011
- IEEE/IFIP DSN
2011
- IEEE/IFIP DSN (12)
- QEST (5)
- MAM (2)
- SIMULTECH
2010
- IEEE/IFIP DSN
- HotMetrics (5)
- ICCCN (3)
2009
- IEEE/IFIP DSN
- QEST (8)
- ICCCN (6)
- SACSIS
2008
- IEEE/IFIP DSN
- IEEE ISSRE
2007
- IFIP PERFORMANCE
- QEST (8)
2006
- IEEE GLOBECOM
2005 or before
- ACM SIGCOMM
- IEEE INFOCOM
Referee for Books and other papers
Session chair
- Chair for the "Simulation" session at the Spring Meeting of the Operasions Research Society of Japan, March 2010.
Community Service
- Active member of IBM On Demand Community. Enjoying science experiments with children, including TryScience (2005-present).
- Member of administrators for komachi, an online Japanese community site in Pittsburgh (2001-2005).
Traveling
I like traveling and particularly enjoy watching wildlives (like Galapagos Islands) and eating/drinking (like Belgium beer). I have been to
North/South America
- Ecuador (Galapagos Islands, Quito)
- Bahamas
- Brazil (Rio de Janeiro)
- Mexico (Tijuana)
- Canada (Niagara falls, Toronto)
- USA (22/50 states, including AL, CA, CT, DC, FL, GA, HI, IL, MD, MA, MT, NJ, NV, NY, OH, OR, PA, RI, UT, VA, WV, WY)
Asia
- China (Tibet, Beijing, Chengdu)
- Hong Kong
- Taiwan (Taipei)
- Japan (40/47 prefectures, excluding Toyama, Shimane, Nagasaki, Kumamoto, Oita, Miyazaki, Kagoshima)
Europe
- Belgium (Brussels, Bruges, Gent, Namur, Antwerp)
- England (London, Oxford, Bath, Stonehenge, Greenwich)
- Scotland (Edinburgh)
- Spain (Barcelona)
- Wales (Cardiff)
- France (Bourgogne, Paris, Saint-Malo)
- Netherlands (Eindhoven, Amsterdam)
- Luxemburg
Oceania
- Fiji
- Australia (Perth, Sydney, Cairns, Canberra)