Toshiro Kubota is an assistant professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences, Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, PA. He has been a reviewer for Computing Reviews since 1997, and has written over 30 reviews. He was born in Japan and grew up there. Eventually, he moved to the US to pursue his graduate studies and ended up staying there. He received a BS degree in instrumentation engineering from Keio University, Japan in 1988, and MS and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA in 1989 and 1995, respectively. At Georgia Tech, he worked at the Computer Engineering Research Laboratory and designed ASIC chips for the Guidance Navigation and Control Project funded by the US Army. For his dissertation work, he developed a biologically inspired image filter design method, which has been awarded a US patent.

From 1996 until 2004, he was at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC. He worked on a number of research projects, including wavelet-based image analysis, funded by the Office of Naval Research, and a graph-based image segmentation project, funded by the National Science Foundation. He served as an assistant professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department.

From 2004 to 2006, he worked as a scientist for Siemens Medical Solutions, Malvern, PA. He was a member of the Computer-Aided Diagnosis and Knowledge Solutions Group, and worked on the detection of pulmonary nodules from CT data. His work resulted in eight provisional patent applications.

From 2006 to 2010, he has been at Susquehanna University, providing a liberal arts education in mathematics and computer science to undergraduate students. His current research interests include computer vision, neural networks (both biological and artificial), medical imaging, and remote sensing. He has over 50 technical publications in these fields. He is a member of IEEE, ACM and MAA.

He also has experience in software development, and seeks to commercialize some of his research works. He started Hyperacuity.com to pursue the venture in 2004, and developed a webcam-based intruder detection program sold as shareware. He is always searching for spare time to engage in this venture. To his disappointment, he has not been able to find such time in recent years.