Engineer Assistant

Kota Yamaguchi

P h.D. student at Stony Brook University

**** ***** ***** ** *****: 631-***-****

CEWIT Building 226 Email: abpnl8@r.postjobfree.com

Stony Brook, NY 11794 Website: http://www.cs.stonybrook.edu/~kyamagu/

Key words

Computer vision, machine learning, data analysis

Education

Stony Brook University

Ph.D., Computer Science, 2009 2013 (expected) GPA 3.98/4.0

Computer vision technique for parsing human pose and clothing items

Behavioral analysis of fashion bloggers in online social network

Mathematical modeling of pedestrian behaviors for application in video surveillance and crowd simulation

Joint analysis of image and text data to associate names and faces in collection of Web news articles

Precise face tracking for human computer interface

Activities: Research assistant (2011-present), Graduate assistant (2010), Teaching assistant (2009-2010)

The University of Tokyo

MS, Information Science and Technology, 2006 2009 Translated GPA 3.8/4.0

Development of computer vision technique to improve user experience of video conferencing

Embedded implementation of computer vision algorithm

Activities: System administrator in laboratory (2007-2009)

The University of Tokyo

BE, Mathematical Engineering and Information Physics, 2002 2006 Translated GPA 3.3/4.0

Parallel processing for image sensors

Extracurricular: Representative at University Triathlon Club (2003-2004), Volunteer at Japan Student Triathlon

Union (2005-2007), Part time worker at Starbucks Coffee Japan (2004-2006)

Experience

Software engineer Intern June 2012 August 2012

Google Inc., Mountain View, CA

Research on fine-grained image categorization

Student research assistant June 2011 August 2011

Center for Language and Speech Technology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

Large scale image and text analysis, automatic image captioning, and knowledge discovery

Research engineer intern September 2004

IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory, Kanagawa, Japan

Evaluation of the method to reduce computational costs in mathematical programming

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Programming skills

C/C++, Matlab, Ruby on Rails, Java, HTML+CSS, Javascript, SQL, UNIX administration, OpenCV, Python

Publications

International conferences:

Kota Yamaguchi, Hadi Kiapour, Luis E. Ortiz, Tamara L. Berg, "Parsing Clothing in Fashion Photographs",

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2012.

Karl Stratos, Aneesh Sood, Alyssa Mensch, Xufeng Han, Margaret Mitchell, Kota Yamaguchi, Jesse Dodge, Amit

Goyal, Hal Daume III, Alex Berg, Tamara L Berg, "Understanding and Predicting Importance in Images", Computer

Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2012.

Margaret Mitchell, Jesse Dodge, Amit Goyal, Kota Yamaguchi, Karl Sratos, Xufeng Han, Alysssa Mensch, Alex

Berg, Tamara L. Berg, Hal Daume III, "Midge: Generating Image Descriptions From Computer Vision Detections",

European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2012.

Kota Yamaguchi, Alex C. Berg, Luis E. Ortiz, Tamara L. Berg, Who are you with and Where are you going?

IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2011.

Kota Yamaguchi, Takashi Komuro, Masatoshi Ishikawa, "PTZ Control with Head Tracking for Video Chat," ACM

CHI 2009 Extended Abstracts, 2009.

Kota Yamaguchi, Yoshihiro Watanabe, Takashi Komuro, and Masatoshi Ishikawa, Interleaved Pixel Lookup for

Embedded Computer Vision, Forth Workshop on Embedded Computer Vision, 2008.

Kota Yamaguchi, Yoshihiro Watanabe, Takashi Komuro, Masatoshi Ishikawa, "Design of a Massively Parallel

Vision Processor based on Multi-SIMD Architecture", IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems

(ISCAS), pp.3498-3501, 2007.

Japanese conferences:

Kota Yamaguchi, Yoshihiro Watanabe, Takashi Komuro, Masatoshi Ishikawa, "An Interface for Peering inside

Remote Field of View, The 13th Image Media Processing Symposium (IMPS), pp. 83-84, 2008.

Kota Yamaguchi, Yoshihiro Watanabe, Takashi Komuro, Masatoshi Ishikawa, "Design of a Massively Parallel

Vision Processor for High Speed Image Recognition", Forum on Information Technology, Vol. 1, pp. 181-184,

2006.

Kota Yamaguchi, Yoshihiro Watanabe, Takashi Komuro, Masatoshi Ishikawa, "Design of a High-Performance

Vision Processor with Shared-Memory Multi-SIMD Architecture", Technical Committee on Integrated Circuits and

Devices (ICD), Vol. 106, No. 92, pp. 89-94, 2006.

Honors and awards

Full tuition scholarship from Stony Brook University (2009-present), Best poster award at The 13th Image Media

Processing Symposium (2008)

Teaching experience

Teaching assistant in Introduction to Web design (2009), Introduction to Computer Science (2009), Analysis of

Algorithms (2009), Compiler Design (2010), Introduction to Computer Vision (2010)

Professional affiliation

IEEE student member (2011-present), ACM student member (2009-present)

Relevant information

Fluent in Japanese; Hobbies include jogging and cooking

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