Summary
Yamauchi Hitoshi is a Senior Software Engineer with 13+ years building GPU-accelerated, multi-node visualization and rendering systems for very large datasets (hundreds of GB to hundreds of TB), currently driving productization of interactive large-scale volume visualization at NVIDIA. His background spans research and engineering roles—from Max Planck and academic postdoc work to commercial products at mental images—combining deep expertise in linear algebra, DSP, geometry processing and physically based rendering. He specializes in parallel interactive 3D rendering and cluster-scale volume visualization (DiCE/IndeX) and brings rare experience turning research prototypes into production-grade, GPU-cluster software. Based in Berlin and rooted in a PhD in Informatics from Tohoku University, he also has an interest in educational tools, reflecting a blend of rigorous research, product focus, and community-minded engineering.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
PhD., Informatics, PhD., Informatics at Tohoku University
English, Japanese, German