Junko Wakabayashi

2-3-102 Nanahongi Minato-ku Tokyo Japan
phone: +81-3-0594-2374
mobile: +81-90-408-2374
email: goalkeeper@example.com
http://goalkeeper.example.com/

Interests

Work Experience

Staff Engineer, Mobile Communication Group, Takao-san Electric Corp, April 2007 - current

Japanese input method - Designed and implemented a prototype of a predictive Japanese input method client for mobile phones in C++. It achieved its goals of high accuracy with a small memory footprint and simple computational model.

GIS project - Built a demonstration system for a location-based information delivery service. Designed a widely distributed backend system and a privacy protection mechanism on it. This system was tested and evaluated in the Yokohama area in 2007-2008.

Engineer, Mobile Communication Group, Takao-san Electric Corp, April 2005 - March 2007

Implemented a bar code reader subsystem for TEI-501i, leading a group of 5 engineers. Designed a library of image processing functions for detecting bar codes from the captured pictures.

Part-time Programmer, Roppongi Technologies Inc., April 2003 - March 2005

Developed mobile chat application in Java, which is now used by more than 1 million people. I was responsible for designing the network protocol and implementing the networking libraries.

Education

MS Computer Science, Touto University, Tokyo Japan 2005

Projects:
Built a large scale spoken Japanese corpus (led a team of three). Designed an automatic new word detection system for Corpus Builder and wrote its main module. Distributed the processing platform for Corpus Builder (myself): it allowed 64 Linux workstations to build the corpus.

BS Electrical Engineering, Naniwa Institute of Technology, Osaka Japan 2003

Publications (Selected)

Junko Wakabayashi, Hanako Google, Taro Azuma: Memory Efficient POS Tagger for Mobile Devices based on Compressed Hidden Markov Model, Journal of Mobile Language Processing, Vol.169 2005

Taro Azuma, Junko Wakabayashi: Applying Probabilistic Parser to Programming Language Parsing, The 150th Workshop on Applications of Natural Language Processing in Compiler, 2004

Honors / Achievements

TopCoder Algorithm Competition

Activities

Maintaining social movie review site

http://eiga.example.com
I built the site with Ruby on Rails as my hobby project and have been running it for more than a year. It has 100+ active users.

Monthly web technology study group

I have been running a monthly study group on new web technologies (JavaScript, HTML5, etc.) with 20+ people around Tokyo (inside and outside my company).