Hisashi Kobayashi | |
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| Born | June 13, 1938 Tokyo, Japan |
| Died | March 9, 2023 Tokyo, Japan |
| Alma mater | University of Tokyo (BE and ME) Princeton University (MA and PhD)[1](PhD) |
| Awards | Honorary doctorate degree awarded by Ghent University, Belgium (March 22, 2019) C&C Prize (2012) Eduard Rhein Technology Award (2005) with Dolivo and Eleftheriou Alexander von Humboldt Foundation's Senior US Scientist Award (1979) IFIP's Silver Core Medal (1980) |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center; University of California, Los Angeles; University of Hawaiʻi; Stanford University; Technische Universität Darmstadt; Free University of Brussels; IBM Japan Science Institute; Princeton University; Research Center for Advanced Science & Technology (RCAST) of the University of Tokyo; University of Victoria, Canada; National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan; |
| Thesis | Representations of Complex-Valued Vector Processes and Their Application to Estimation and Detection (1967) |
| Doctoral advisor | John B. Thomas |
Hisashi Kobayashi (Japanese: 小林久志 Kobayashi Hisashi;) (June 13, 1938 – March 9, 2023) was the Sherman Fairchild University Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, emeritus [2] at Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey. His fields of expertise included applied probability; queueing theory; system modeling and performance analysis; digital communication and networks; network architecture; investigation of the Riemann hypothesis; and stochastic modeling of an infectious disease. He was a Senior Distinguished Researcher at the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan from September 2008 to March 2016.
He was president of Friends of UTokyo, Inc. (FUTI),[3] 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.[4]
- ^ "Hisashi Kobayashi – Dean of the Faculty – Princeton University". Princeton University. Archived from the original on 16 June 2019. Retrieved 6 January 2019.
- ^ "10 Faculty members transfer to emeritus status". Princeton University. Retrieved 11 November 2009.
- ^ "Friends of UTokyo, Inc". Retrieved 21 December 2021.
- ^ "Armstrong Memorial Research Foundation, Inc". Armstrong Memorial Research Foundation, Inc. Retrieved 11 November 2009.