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Katsuhiko Momoi, a lifelong language and linguistics enthusiast, is currently a Staff Test Engineer at Google. He joined Netscape in 1996, where he initially worked as I18n (Internationalization) Evangelist, then as Principal I18n Software QA Engineer and as Mozilla Technology Evangelist. Since joining Google in 2005, he has been working as an I18n Consultant and a Test Engineer for a variety of web applications and platforms like Gmail, Google+, Calendar, Docs, Android OS, etc. He has presented papers at W3C and Unicode Conferences as well as other Industry conferences in Japan and the US. Kat’s recent accomplishments include the Emoji proposal for Unicode 6 (with Google and Apple colleagues), for which he received the Bulldog Award from the Unicode Consortium. Prior to a career in Software Internationalization, he taught Japanese language & linguistics at Ohio State Univ., Univ. of Minnesota and St. Cloud State Univ. He studied English linguistics at Tokyo Univ. of Foreign Studies, and then linguistics at Indiana (BA), Pennsylvania State University (MA), and Univ. of Chicago (ABD).
