Department of Computer Science and Engineering Mail Code 0114 University of California, San Diego La Jolla, CA, 92093-0114 USA Office: 4839 AP&M Phone: (858)453-4364 sugimoto@cs.ucsd.edu My resume is available in HTML and plain text. No, I am not flashing a Japanese gangster sign. I'm just hiding my unshaved beard.

Previously...

• My master's thesis was titled Visual Expertise Is a General Skill. The goal of the research was to show through neural network simulations that the representations developed for discriminating faces are useful for fine discrimination of other classes of images as well. You can see my PowerPoint slides I used for my presentation for the UCSD AI Research Seminar.
• Teaching Assistant, UCSD, Programming Languages: Principles and Paradigms (by Charles Elkan Fall 1999, Gary Cottrell Spring 2000), Programming Languages for Artificial Intelligence (Winter 2000)
• First implementation of AnnBLAST was a project I did for Rik Belew's Computational Biology seminar. I'm not involved in the project anymore, but it has grown into something bigger since then.
• Bachelor of Engineering in "Mechano-Informatics", University of Tokyo, 1998. My Bachelor's thesis was titled An Experimental Method for Measuring whether People Respond to Low Pitch as a Cue for Back-Channel Feedback. It was a study on people's response to prosodic features of speech advised by Nigel Ward.

In case you're wondering what Mechano-Informatics is supposed to be, well, don't ask me, they "had to create" a new term because "the term mechatronics, although widely adopted to describe the technologies arising from the integration of machines and electronics, did not fully express the importance of computation in today's mechanical systems." Check out the web site of a department at Nagoya University that includes the same term in their name, they can't even spell it correctly themselves!

Come spot me!

• The listening room located in the UCSD Music Library - Yeah, it sucks that you can't check out CDs and you have to listen to them on unsatisfactory sound systems in uncomfortable seats using unfriendly equipment with absolutely uninformative displays. Serious, you can't even identify which song you're listening to. But they do have a respectable collection of experimental music from avant garde composers to Sonic Youth to DJ Spooky. If you are a UCSD student (or staff/faculty...), take advantage of this excellent opportunity to expand your musical horizon! Bear the seats, nothing comes for free, right?
• Landmark Theatres - Landmark La Jolla is within walking distance from the UCSD campus. So why is it that I hardly see young audience there (unless they're showing the Blair Witch)?
• Cane's Bar and Grill - Yeah Matt, I agree it sucks that you can't even hear from the pub the sound of the band when they do all ages shows, and that they have signs reading "ABSOLUTELY no moshing allowed" all over, but they do host cool bands, occasionally... Curfew: midnight
• Casbah - Nice intimate venue for loud indie rock. Curfew: 1:20 am.
• Mira Mesa Epicentre - One of the few all ages venue in San Diego. Yeah, it sucks that they don't advertise so you have to check their web page frequently, but their web page is annoying because too many windows pop up Correction, now they advertise so ignore the link... Curfew: 11:30.
• Che Cafe - No point complaining here, they're obviously not making any money...Curfew: ?
• Belly Up Tavern - If only I had had a car during my first year...Curfew: 2am?
• Tower Records - For no apparent reason, the La Jolla store always have at least one Tom Waits CD in their listening stations.
• Music Trader -Surprise! I just found out that Music Trader is a part of a pretty big international franchise, nothing local (check the link). The PB store has a nice big collection but the Clairemont store is less exploited (and easier to find parking during weekends). Used CDs.
• Peet's Coffee and Tea - Located in the La Jolla Village shopping complex. Probably the most useless link in this page...
• Girard Gourmet - Sandwich. The photo in this linked site is useless, you can't see the restaurant.
• Fuji Rock Festival - It would be really cool if someone found me out there!

Let me show you the San Diego in my eyes...