Others

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

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• US7562004: Determining better configuration for computerized system
• 7 other patents filed (as of April 2009).

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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

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

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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

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2009

• Professional papers, IBM Japan (3)

2006

• John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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• 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).

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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)
• 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)
• Wales (Cardiff)
• France (Bourgogne, Paris, Saint-Malo)
• Netherlands (Eindhoven, Amsterdam)
• Luxemburg

Oceania

• Fiji
• Australia (Perth, Sydney, Cairns, Canberra)

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