Naoki Saito is an

applied mathematician A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change. History One ...

specializing in applied and computational

harmonic analysis Harmonic analysis is a branch of mathematics concerned with investigating the connections between a function and its representation in frequency. The frequency representation is found by using the Fourier transform for functions on unbounded do ...

, and interested in

feature extraction Feature may refer to: Computing * Feature recognition, could be a hole, pocket, or notch * Feature (computer vision), could be an edge, corner or blob * Feature (machine learning), in statistics: individual measurable properties of the phenome ...

pattern recognition Pattern recognition is the task of assigning a class to an observation based on patterns extracted from data. While similar, pattern recognition (PR) is not to be confused with pattern machines (PM) which may possess PR capabilities but their p ...

, graph signal processing,

statistical signal processing Signal processing is an electrical engineering subfield that focuses on analyzing, modifying and synthesizing ''signals'', such as sound, images, potential fields, seismic signals, altimetry processing, and scientific measurements. Signal ...

, Laplacian eigenfunctions, and human and machine perception.

Education

Saito studied at the

University of Tokyo The University of Tokyo (, abbreviated as in Japanese and UTokyo in English) is a public research university in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. Founded in 1877 as the nation's first modern university by the merger of several pre-westernisation era ins ...

, receiving his BEng in 1982 and his MEng in 1984. He joined Nippon

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K.K. in 1984, and in 1986 moved to Schlumberger-

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Research (SDR),

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, where he was a research scientist. He continued his studies, receiving his PhD in

applied mathematics Applied mathematics is the application of mathematics, mathematical methods by different fields such as physics, engineering, medicine, biology, finance, business, computer science, and Industrial sector, industry. Thus, applied mathematics is a ...

from

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Stat ...

in 1994.

Career

Saito began teaching at the Department of Mathematics at the

University of California, Davis The University of California, Davis (UC Davis, UCD, or Davis) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Davis, California, United States. It is the northernmost of the ten campuses of the University ...

in 1997, where he is currently a professor and a director of the UC Davis TETRAPODS Institute of Data Science, one of

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's Transdisciplinary Research In Principles Of Data Science (TRIPODS) Institutes, which brings together the theoretical computer science, electrical engineering, mathematics, and statistics communities to develop the theoretical foundations of data science. He was also Chair of the Graduate Group in Applied Mathematics at UC Davis from 2007 to 2012. He is a senior member of

IEEE The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is an American 501(c)(3) organization, 501(c)(3) public charity professional organization for electrical engineering, electronics engineering, and other related disciplines. The IEEE ...

as well as a member of

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, and JSIAM. He served as Chair of the SIAM Activity Group on Imaging Science from 2013 to 2015, and is a member of the editorial board of ''Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis'', ''Inverse Problems and Imaging'', and ''Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision''. Saito received the Best Paper Awards from the

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(1994), and JSIAM (2016) as well as the Henri Doll Award from

(1997), Young Investigator Award from the ONR (2000), and the

Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers The Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) is the highest honor bestowed by the United States federal government on outstanding scientists and engineers in the early stages of their independent research careers. T ...

(PECASE) (2000). Saito has contributed to a number of notable interdisciplinary projects including the development of a noninvasive fetal oxygen monitor as well as the

Lake Tahoe Lake Tahoe (; Washo language, Washo: ''dáʔaw'') is a Fresh water, freshwater lake in the Sierra Nevada of the Western United States, straddling the border between California and Nevada. Lying at above sea level, Lake Tahoe is the largest a ...

Sonification Project in 2014.

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Naoki Saito
at University of California, Davis {{DEFAULTSORT:Saito, Naoki Japanese mathematicians Year of birth missing (living people) Living people University of Tokyo alumni Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni Applied mathematicians University of California, Davis faculty Senior members of the IEEE Recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers