Yoky matsuoka biography
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Can you briefly introduce yourself? What is your background and area of expertise?
I was born and raised in Japan and made the move to the US when I was 16, which is where I've been based ever since. I initially came to the US to focus on tennis, which was my passion growing up, but was forced to sideline my hopes of playing professionally due to an injury. Despite this setback, I was fortunate to discover a new passion - science and technology. I got my B.S. from the University of California, Berkeley, and my M.S and PhD in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT.
My area of expertise is in computer science and AI, and my research has also encompassed neuroscience and robotics. My career began in academia as a professor at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Washington. During my tenure at UW I founded and directed the Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering and the Neurobotics Laboratory to create devices to restore the human body's capabilities
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How Secret Superhero Yoky Matsuoka Swapped Tennis for Robotics
Yoky was devastated, but also now faced a new challenge. Her focus had solely been on tennis, but that door was now closed and she had to decide what to do with the remainder of her life. She decided that she wanted to build a robot that could play tennis, and after reading up on robotics she realized this was not an impossible dream, and devoted her focus to this new tennis-related project. That dream sustained her all the way through her undergrad studies at Berkeley, and on to MIT where she joined the team of renowned roboticist Rodney Brooks, who was engaged in building humanoid-like robots. Yoky - still thinking about tennis - took over the development of the hands, one of the most complex areas of human anatomy. Brooks would later say of her: “She repeatedly surprised me by embarking on a new sub-project in an area where she had no background, and in just two or three weeks being totally up to speed and produci
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Yoky Matsuoka
Japanese computer scientist
Yoky Matsuoka (松岡陽子 Matsuoka Yōko, born c. 1972 in Japan) is the CEO and Founder of Yohana (an independent subsidiary of Panasonic).[1] She was the CTO of Google Nest, a co-founder of Google X and previously held roles as VP of Technology and Analytics at Twitter, technology executive at Apple, and as VP of Technology at Nest.[2][3][4][5][6]
Previously, she was an assistant professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University and an associate professor of computer science at the University of Washington, director of Washington's Neurobotics Laboratory, director of the Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering. She is a 2007 MacArthur Fellow. At University of Washington, her research combined neuroscience and robotics—sometimes referred to bygd Matsuoka by the portmanteauneurobotics—to create more realistic prosthetics.[7]
Early life and education
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