Koichi Funaya

Senior Management at NEC's core technology research laboratory, with focus on AI based application research and development • Technologies include: knowledge graph analysis, recurrent neural networks, mixture of regression models • Application fields include: financial sector, cyber security, industrial plants, retail sector • R&D management, including planning, team buildup and execution, cross-site collaborations

I am responsible for directing product R&D and business development, especially for strategic new concept products. Project categories include: • IT/NW Service Platform technologies and solutions • Next Generation Networking technologies and solutions • Cloud infrastructure technologies • ICT for Social Infra technologies and solutions: automotive communications, energy management, M2M (Machine-to-Machine communication), etc.

In this period I directed a marketing team of 100M€ revenue target and 40M€ revenue actual, promoting wireless semiconductor devices and RF semiconductor fabrication business towards Japan market. • Key accounts: Panasonics, SONY and Murata • Responsibility: 2G/3G RF devices, Assisted-GPS chips for mobile handsets, RF Tuners for digital terrestrial TVs, RF fabrication services.

During this period, I was responsible for the product management of enterprise Wireless LAN controller product “UNIVERGE-WL” series, as well as global carrier WLAN system solutions. I also initiated and executed IMS based personal multimedia service product development. The responsibility includes: • Product planning and rollout process • Product promotion and education to internal sales divisions and channel partners • Solution package development, including external vendor negotiations • Trial project de

A project manager and technical leader of product R&D projects, to develop Personal Multimedia Devices: • Digital Terrestrial TV receiver for mobile handset (ISDB-T based) • Portable Video Player based on hard-drive • Home Server based on hard-drive storage Roles include: technical architect, project management, standardization delegate. Technologies include: multimedia content format, DRM (Digital Rights Management)

Leader of research projects on high-speed storage channels for video servers In 1994-5, I stayed at University of California at Berkeley as a Visiting Research Fellow.

As an R&D staff at NEC Central Research Labs, I pursued projects in machine control, robotics, aerospace mechanical applications, and DSP application development.