Kentaro Yasu
Japan
CAREER Enrolled in April Enrolled in April 2008; Completed master’s degree in March 2010 /
Enrolled in April 2010; Completed doctoral degree in March 2013
I entered KMD in its inaugural year, joined City Media project and Reality Media project, and received my master’s degree in 2010 and my Ph.D. in 2013. After graduation, I started working as a Human-Computer Interaction researcher at the National University of Singapore, and I have been working at NTT Communication Science Laboratories since 2016.
Originally, I had no intention of becoming a researcher and even disliked writing papers, but with my desire to create something novel and the influence of my peers, research somehow became my job. The first KMD students had diverse personalities and talents. What I learned from them such as programming, prototyping, video editing, presentation techniques, and English conversation still supports me today. However, research does not complete when it is created but when it is published, so I had to keep improving my writing skills after graduation. Recently a product based on my research has been launched, and I now believe that I can change the world little by little, even by writing papers.
(This article was written in March 2022.)