name: Masaki HAYASHI

birthday: 16th Jan., 1959

place of birth: Tokyo

nationality: Japanese

what i like: music, eating, drinking, Europian painting (Van Gogh, Velazquez, Goya, Simone Martini, Giotto, Vermeer, Dali, Warholl,.. ), Old novels (Dostoyevsky, Nietzsche, Maupassant,..)

what i can do: playing guitar and sing, cooking Chinese meal, buiding tube amps, writing (japanese only :), programming (just part of my job :)

job: I'm currently working at Internet Research Institute, Inc. from 2008 to establish T2V (Text-To-Vision) technology based on TVML.

I quit NHK in June, 2006 and moved to Sega Sammy Media Inc. working on IT business based on TV program Making Language (TVML) technology that i was involved in NHK Labs. I used to be a senior engineering researcher working for NHK (one of the japanese broadcast companies) research center. And i also worked for Tokyo Institute of Technology as a guest associate professor taking care of under graduate students. My research field is contents creation method using CG and other techniques. See more about my profession here.