Kenji Watanabe

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  • Timeline

    Jul 2004 - Jul 2014

    Senior Engineer

    Soliton Systems (Formerly Synthesis Corporation)
    日本 大阪府
    Aug 2014 - May 2017

    Senior Engineer

    Fixstars Corporation(株式会社フィックスターズ)
    Jun 2017 - Mar 2019

    Engineer

    ドワンゴ
    Jul 2019 - Jul 2024

    Manager

    LeapMind Inc.
    Current Company
    Aug 2024 - now

    Manager

    Tokyo Artisan Intelligence Co., Ltd.
  • About me

    Engineer

  • Education

    • 大阪大学

      2004 - 2006
      Master of engineering - meng computer science
    • 大阪大学

      2006 - 2009
      Doctor of philosophy - phd computer science
    • 大阪大学

      2000 - 2004
      Bachelor of engineering - be information system engineering
  • Experience

    • Soliton systems (formerly synthesis corporation)

      Jul 2004 - Jul 2014

      Worked as an architect and tech lead. Led a team of 10 engineers.- Developed the world’s first real-time H.265 hardware encoder IP. Achieved 1080/30p real-time encoding with Arria V FPGA.- Built the H.264 codec IP. Achieved 1080/60p real-time encoding/decoding with 40 nm library.- Built the area-efficient H.264 encoder IP. Achieved 1080/60i real-time encoding with 90 nm library.- Wrote RTL and test bench with Verilog HDL in the projects above.- Utilized Mentor Modelsim and Synopsys Design Compiler. Show less

      • Senior Engineer

        Apr 2009 - Jul 2014
      • Engineer

        Jul 2004 - Mar 2009
    • Fixstars corporation(株式会社フィックスターズ)

      Aug 2014 - May 2017
      Senior engineer

      - Created a hardware accelerator to improve storage performance.- Utilized Xilinx Vivado and Intel Quartus Prime to design Zynq-7000, Kintex Ultrascale, and Arria 10.

    • ドワンゴ

      Jun 2017 - Mar 2019
      Engineer

      Worked as an architect and tech lead. Led a team of 5 engineers.- Developed the world's first real-time AV1 hardware encoder. Achieved 1080/30p real-time encoding with Stratix 10.- Developed the high-image-quality H.264 hardware encoder.- Wrote RTL and test bench with SystemVerilog in the projects above.

    • Leapmind inc.

      Jul 2019 - Jul 2024

      Worked as an architect, tech lead, and manager. Leading a team of 7 engineers.- Developed an energy-efficient DNN accelerator IP "Efficiera".- Achieved 107.8 TOPS/W with 7 nm library.

      • Manager

        Nov 2019 - Jul 2024
      • ASIC/FPGA Design Engineer

        Jul 2019 - Oct 2019
    • Tokyo artisan intelligence co., ltd.

      Aug 2024 - now

      - Developing Edge AI Platform "StingRay" on FPGA

      • Manager

        Oct 2024 - now
      • Engineer

        Aug 2024 - Sept 2024
  • Licenses & Certifications

    • テクニカルエンジニア(エンベデッド)

      情報処理推進機構
      Jun 2007
    • 情報セキュリティアドミニストレータ

      情報処理推進機構
      Dec 2006
    • ソフトウェア開発技術者

      情報処理推進機構
      Jun 2005
    • 基本情報技術者

      (独)情報処理推進機構
      May 2001
  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to Kenji Watanabe
      Kusumoto award Osaka University Mar 2004 graduate with top honors