Hisashi Kobayashi | |
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Born |
Tokyo, Japan |
June 13, 1938
Institutions | Princeton University |
Alma mater |
University of Tokyo Princeton University |
Thesis | Representations of Complex-Valued Vector Processes and Their Application to Estimation and Detection (1967) |
Doctoral advisor | John B. Thomas |
Notable awards |
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) |
Hisashi Kobayashi (Japanese: 小林 久志 Kobayashi Hisashi; born on June 13, 1938) is the Sherman Fairchild University Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Emeritus at Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey. His fields of expertise include applied probability; queueing theory; system modeling and performance analysis; digital communication and networks; and network architecture. Currently he is a Senior Distinguished Researcher at the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan.
He was President of Friends of UTokyo, Inc. (FUTI), New York from April 2011 till September 2015, and is currently Chair of its Advisory Committee. He also serves on the Board of Directors, Armstrong Memorial Research Foundation, Inc. .
Hisashi Kobayashi was born in Tokyo, Japan. The mathematician Shoshichi Kobayashi (1932-2012) was Hisashi's elder brother.
Hisashi studied at the University of Tokyo, and completed a Bachelor of Engineering and Master of Engineering in electrical engineering in 1961 and 1963, respectively. He was a recipient of Sugiyama Schloarship (1958–61) and RCA David Sarnoff Scholarship (1960). He worked as a radar system designer at Toshiba, Kawasaki in 1963-65.
Kobayashi came to the United States as a recipient of the Orson Desaix Munn Fellowship of Princeton University and completed a PhD degree in electrical engineering in 1967.