Yoky Matsuoka
| Yoky Matsuoka | |
|---|---|
| Born | c. 1972 Japan |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Computer science |
| Institutions |
University of Washington; Carnegie Mellon University; Barrett Technology; Nest Labs |
| Alma mater |
University of California, Berkeley Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1998, PhD) |
| Notable awards | MacArthur Fellows Program |
Yoky Matsuoka (born c. 1972 in Japan) is the former Vice President of Technology at Nest, where she was in charge of UX and the learning aspects of Nest's thermostat. She is now working in Apple on undisclosed aspects of their health business.
Previously, she was an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University and an associate professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington, director of that university's Neurobotics Laboratory, director of the Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering. She is a 2007 MacArthur Fellow, commonly referred to as Genius Award. At UW, her research combined neuroscience and robotics—sometimes referred to by Matsuoka by the portmanteau neurobotics—to create more realistic prosthetics.
She was born in Japan and moved to California at the age of 16. In her youth, she was a semi-professional tennis player, once ranking 21st in Japan, but was eventually sidelined by injuries (she broke her ankle for the third time); her interest in robotics began with the idea of a robotic tennis player, which she later decided was unrealistic.
She received her B.S. degree in 1993 from the University of California, Berkeley and an M.S. (1995) and PhD (1998) in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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