Hisashi Kobayashi was the Sherman Fairchild University Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, emeritus at Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey.
11 Facts About Hisashi Kobayashi
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Hisashi Kobayashi was a Senior Distinguished Researcher at the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan from September 2008 to March 2016.
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Hisashi Kobayashi was president of Friends of UTokyo, Inc, New York from April 2011 to September 2015, chair of its advisory committee from September 2015 to September 2019, and an advisory member.
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Hisashi Kobayashi serves on the board of directors, Armstrong Memorial Research Foundation, Inc from September 2008 to August 2021.
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Hisashi Kobayashi was a recipient of Sugiyama Scholarship and RCA David Sarnoff Scholarship.
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In 1965 Hisashi 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.
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Hisashi Kobayashi worked for the IBM Thomas J Watson Research Center at Yorktown Heights, New York, for fifteen years.
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Hisashi Kobayashi 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.
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Hisashi Kobayashi was a visiting professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, University of Hawaii, Stanford University, Technische Universitat Darmstadt, and Free University of Brussels.
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In 1982, Hisashi Kobayashi was appointed the founding director of the IBM Japan Science Institute 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, and the Sherman Fairchild University Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
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Hisashi Kobayashi was a BC ASI Visiting Fellow at the University of Victoria in Canada from 1998 to 1999.