Yusuke Sakai
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  • Yusuke Sakai
  • Employed and freelance programmer who loves to develop user interfaces and software
  • PhD in Informatics
  • Email contact[at]yfsakai.com

Skills

Languages

Japanese
native language
English
limited working proficiency (ILR scale)

Programming (and Related) Languages

Proficient
TypeScript/JavaScript, Python, HTML, CSS
Experienced
Dart, C, C#, C++, Java, PHP
Learning
Rust, Golang

Experienced Frameworks and Tools

Web Front-End
React.js, Vue.js
Web Back-End
FastAPI, Django
Webpages
Gatsby, Jekyll, Hugo, Wordpress
Native Apps
Flutter, Electron, Qt
Games
Unity
Machine Learning
Tensorflow, Keras
Infrastructure
Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS
Document
TeX, Markdown, MS Office

Qualifications

  • 準中型自動車免許
  • 大型自動二輪車免許
  • TOEIC Score 905, 2013
  • 第二種電気工事士

Experience

August 1 2018 - Present

Software Engineer (Part-Time), Human Dataware Lab., Nagoya, JAPAN

February 1 2017 - Present

Web Developer, y2app (self-employed), Nagoya, JAPAN

April 1 2017 - March 31 2019

Teaching Assistant, Daido University, Nagoya, JAPAN

July 31 2017 - September 1 2017

Software Engineer Internship, Wantedly, Inc., Tokyo, JAPAN

  • Develop news filtering system using word embeddings and machine learning.

Education

April 2019 - March 2022

Nagoya University, Graduate School of Informatics, Nagoya, JAPAN

  • Ph.D. in Informatics
April 2017 - March 2019

Nagoya University, Graduate School of Informatics, Nagoya, JAPAN

  • Master of Informatics in Intelligent Systems
April 2015 - March 2017

Nagoya University, Nagoya, JAPAN

  • Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical and Electronic Engineering
August 2011 - July 2012

Tallwood High School , Virginia Beach, VA, USA

  • As a foreign exchange student
April 2009 - March 2015

Toyota National College of Technology, Toyota, JAPAN

  • Associate Degree in Electrical and Electronic System Engineering

Publication

Journal Papers

  • Yusuke Sakai, Hiromi Morita, Yoshio Ishiguro, Takanori Nishino, Kazuya Takeda, SecretSign: A Method of Finding a Specific Vehicle Privately and Quickly using Flashing Lights, IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine, January 2022.
  • Yusuke Sakai, Yoshio Ishiguro, Kento Ohtani, Takanori Nishino, Kazuya Takeda, "FollowSelect: Path-Based Menu Interaction for Intuitive Navigation", Journal of Information Processing Society of Japan, October 2021 (in Japanese).

Conferences

  • Yusuke Sakai, Yoshio Ishiguro, Akira Tamamori, Kei Hiroi, Nobuo Kawaguchi, Kazuya Takeda, "An Semi-Automatic Dialogue System between an Operator and Multiple Users of an Empirical Study for Supporting Elderly People", HUMAN COMMUNICATION GROUP SYMPOSIUM 2018, HCG2018-C-1-1, pp. 1-7, December 2018 (in Japanese).
  • Yusuke Sakai, Hiromi Morita, Yoshio Ishiguro, Takanori Nishino, Kazuya Takeda, "SecretSign: A Method of Finding an Off-line Target Object without Revealing the Target to Observers", 2018 21st International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), pp. 3651-3656, November 2018.

Demos and Posters

  • 榮井 優介,石黒 祥生,西野 隆典,武田 一哉, "FollowSelect: 準備動作が必要な機器の利用に適した経路追従型メニュー選択手法", IPSJ Interaction 2020 インタラクティブ発表, 2A-02, pp. 512-516, March 2020 (demo, in Japanese).
  • Yusuke Sakai, Toshimitsu Watanabe, Yoshio Ishiguro, Takanori Nishino, Kazuya Takeda, "Effects on User Perception of a 'Modified' Speed Experience Through In-Vehicle Virtual Reality", Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications (AutomotiveUI '19) Work-in-Progress (poster).
  • 榮井 優介,石黒 祥生,西野 隆典,武田 一哉, "CarBuddy: 加速度情報とスケルトン追跡による車両周辺ユーザの特定と意図推定", IPSJ Interaction 2019 インタラクティブ発表, 2A-06, pp. 489-493, March 2019 (demo, in Japanese).

Awards

  • 大学院研究奨励賞, 公益社団法人 自動車技術会, March 2022.
  • 挑戦的研究賞, 第22回東海地区音声関連研究室修士論文中間発表会, August 2018.
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