Biography:

Yutaka Ishibashi received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya, Japan, in 1981, 1983, and 1990, respectively. From 1983 to 1993, he was with NTT Laboratories. In 1993, as an Associate Professor, he joined Nagoya Institute of Technology, in which he is now a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering. From June 2000 to March 2001, he was a Visiting Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of South Florida. His research interests include networked multimedia applications, media synchronization algorithms, and QoS control. He is a Member of the IEEE, ACM, Information Processing Society of Japan, the Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers, and the Virtual Reality Society of Japan.