Brief Biography of Naoki Saito

Naoki Saito
Professor and Chair of Chair of Graduate Group in Applied Mathematics
Department of Mathematics
University of California, Davis
One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616 USA
Phone: (530) 754-2121; Fax: (530) 752-6635
Email: saito [at] math [dot] ucdavis [dot] edu

Education

• B.Eng., Mathematical Engineering & Information Physics, University of Tokyo, Japan, 1982
• M.Eng., Mathematical Engineering & Information Physics, University of Tokyo, Japan,1984
• Ph.D., Mathematics, Yale University, CT, USA, 1994

• Software Development Engineer, Nippon Schlumberger K.K., Fuchinobe, Japan, 1984-1986
• Associate Research Scientist, Schlumberger-Doll Research, CT, USA, 1986-1994
• Research Scientist, Schlumberger-Doll Research, Ridgefield, CT, USA, 1994-1997
• Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Unviersity of California, Davis, CA, 1997-2001
• Professor, Department of Mathematics, Unviersity of California, Davis, CA, 2001-present
• Chair, Graduate Group in Applied Mathematics, Unviersity of California, Davis, CA, 2007-present

• Best Paper Award,  Wavelet Applications in Signal and Image Processing Conference II, SPIE, July, 1994
• Henri G. Doll Award, Schlumberger Interpretation Symposium, June, 1997
• Election to Senior Membership, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Dec., 1999
• Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, Feb., 2000
• Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), Oct., 2000

• "Fractographic Analysis of High-Cycle Fatigue in Aircraft Engines," SRI International (a part of US AFOSR, No. F49620-98-C-0041), 10/01/98-12/31/99.
• "Efficient Description, Modeling, and Recognition of Natural Imagery via a Local Basis Library," National Science Foundation, No. 9973032, 08/15/99-07/31/03.
• "Probabilistic Modeling and Computational Methods in Envrionmental Statistics," (with R. A. Levine and D. F. Layton), National Science Foundation, No. 9978321, 09/15/99-08/31/02.
• "Signal Demixing Using Least Statistically-Dependent Bases and Related Techniques," Research Contract from Raytheon Corp., Tucson, Az. Period: 03/01/00-02/28/01.
• "Robust Object Signature Definition using Vector-Valued Sensor Data," Office of Naval Research, Young Investigator Program. Award No. N000140010469. Period: 06/01/00-05/31/03.
• "Scientific Computing Research Environments for the Mathematical (SCREMS)," (with A. Cheer, Z. Bai, E. G. Puckett, S. Shkoller), National Science Foundation, Award No. 0079760. Period: 09/05/00-08/31/03.
• "Vertical Integration of Research and Education in the Mathematical Sciences - VIGRE: Research Focus Groups in Mathematics," (with B. Nachtagaele, J. De Loera, J. Hass, J. Hunter, A. Thompson), National Science Foundation, Award No. 0135345. Period: 07/01/02-06/30/07.
• "The Polyharmonic Local Sine Transform and Its Applications in High-Dimensional Data Processing and Analysis," Office of Naval Research, Young Investigator Program + Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. Award No. N000140010469. Period: 06/01/03-05/31/05.
• "Training Program in Vision Science," (PI: J. S. Werner; I am one of the 20 preceptors), National Eye Institute (NEI) of the NIH, Award No. 5 T32 EY015387. Period: 09/30/03-08/31/08.
• "Object-Oriented Image Analysis and Synthesis using Computational Harmonic Analysis and Boundary Value Problems," National Science Foundation, Award No. DMS-0410406. Period: 08/01/04-07/31/08.
• "Scientific Computing Research Environments for the Mathematical (SCREMS)," (with E. G. Puckett, E. Rains, J. De Loera, A. Cheer), National Science Foundation, Award No. 0532308. Period: 09/15/05-12/31/06.
• "Analysis and Classification of High-Dimensional Patterns using Fast, Flexible, Adaptable, and Hierarchical Feature Extractors," Office of Naval Research, Award No. N00014-06-1-0615 and N00014-07-1-0166. Period: 05/01/06-09/30/09.
• "Enhancements and Improvements on the Local Discriminant Basis Algorithms for Sonar Waveform Classification," Office of Naval Research, Award No. N00014-09-1-0041. Period: 10/01/08-09/30/11.
• "Training Program in Vision Science," (PI: J. S. Werner; I am one of the 22 preceptors), National Eye Institute (NEI) of the NIH, Award No. 5 T32 EY015387. Period: 09/01/08-08/31/13.
• "A Tight Integration of Wavefield Simulation and Object Classification by Modern Computational Harmonic Analysis Techniques," (co-PI: J. Bremer, Jr.), Office of Naval Research, Award No. N00014-09-1-0318. Period: 01/01/09-12/31/11.

• "Methods of Determining Dips and Azimuths of Fractures from Borehole Images," (with N. Bennett and R. Burridge), US Patent Number 5,960,371, Granted 9/28/99.
• "Method for Interpreting Carbonate Reservoirs," (with T. S. Ramakrishnan, R. Ramamoorthy, and C. Flaum), US Patent Number, 6,088,656, Granted 7/11/00, also UK Patent Number, GB2346230, Granted 12/19/00.
• "Method for Interpreting Petrophysical Data," (with A. Rabaute and T. S. Ramakrishnan), UK Patent Number, GB2345776, Granted 1/16/01.
• "Improvement of DCT-based Image Compression Algorithms using Poisson's Equation," (with K. Yamatani), US Patent Application 11/667, 848 on 05/16/07 and Japan Patent Application 2006-545145 on 05/16/07 both jointly filed with Shizuoka University.

• Member, Editorial Board: Inverse Problems and Imaging (2008-present)
• Member, Editorial Advisory Board: Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis (2007-present)
• Member of Program Committee: SPIE Wavelets Conferences (1998-2007)

• Senior Member: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
• Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS)
• Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
• The Japan Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (JSIAM)