Summary
Hirofumi Inomata is a seasoned technical advisor and former Hitachi chief researcher with over three decades of experience spanning storage systems, parallel RDBMS, virtualization, cloud datacenter operations, and 3D CG/entertainment technologies. He combines deep academic foundations in physics and information engineering from Tokyo University and Tokyo University of Science with a prolific patent portfolio and practical R&D leadership on projects from disk redundancy and WAFS caching to AR-enabled asset management and sensor-driven data lakes. Since retiring from Hitachi he advises on 3D applications and IT platforms, bridging research-grade system architecture with applied media production tools such as RenderMan shaders and VR/AR workflows. An ACM member and long-time SIGGRAPH Tokyo participant who has blended hobbyist open-source activity with industry innovation, he brings a rare mix of low-level device expertise, distributed systems design, and creative technical direction.
13 years of coding experience
修士, 情報工学専攻, 修士, 情報工学専攻 at 東京大学
学士, Physics, 学士, Physics at 東京理科大学
English, Japanese