2011-03-01
Dirac Research today announced the appointment of Shinobu Karaki as new Director of their Japan office
Shinobu Karaki has a lifelong experience in the audio and
semiconductor business. Before joining the team at Dirac he held
the role of Business Unit Manager for the Digital AV segment of
Consumer and Automotive at Texas Instruments, where he has been
working for the past 28 years.
"Karaki-san has extensive knowledge of the Japanese market and we
are very pleased to make him part of our growing team," said
Mathias Johansson, CEO and CTO at Dirac.
"During my many years in the semiconductor and Digital AV
applications industry I have experienced many sound technologies.
Dirac is clearly the state of the art in digital sound correction,
and I see great opportunities in Japan," said Shinobu Karaki.
Founded in 2001, Dirac Research is a premier R&D company
specializing in high-performance digital sound optimization, room
correction and sound field synthesis. The company was founded by
researchers from the Signals & Systems Group of Uppsala
University, Sweden, which has fostered 8 Nobel Prize laureates.
With Dirac''s patented toolbox for efficient and accurate audio
system optimization, customers such as BMW, Bentley and Datasat
Digital Entertainment™ have achieved dramatically improved sound
quality and a shortened time-to-market. Dirac Research maintains
offices in Sweden, Tokyo, Detroit, and Shanghai. www.dirac.se