- 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 (2012)
- TOEIC Score 905 (2013)
- 大型自動二輪車免許 (2014)
- 第二種電気工事士 (2021)
- 宅地建物取引士 (2024)
Experience
August 1 2018 - Present
Software Engineer, 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.