Courses & Events
Directions of Edge Computing and Its Adoption
Thursday, Dec 5, 2019
04:30 pm - 05:50 pm
Please RSVP at <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/directions-of-edge-computing-and-its-adoption-with-dr-yoky-matsuoka-vp-google-tickets-73231369999>.
Details
Venue
Stanford University, Skilling Auditorium, 494 Lomita Mall, Stanford, CA 94305
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Parking
Via Ortega Garage, 498 Via Ortega, Stanford, CA 94305
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Roble Field Garage
Cross street is Via Ortega and Santa Teresa (Entrance is on Via Ortega), Stanford, CA 94305
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Please check parking signs carefully to ensure that permitted parking and metered spaces are free after 4:00 pm.
** Stanford students: Register for EASTASN 402A, one-unit seminar, pass-no credit; open to all majors with no prerequisites (cross listed as EE 402A or EALC 402A).
Speakers
Dr. Yoky Matsuoka
Fellow & CEO of a new company within Panasonic
Yoky Matsuoka, was most-recently a VP at Google, grew up in Japan hoping she would become a professional tennis player, but after a series of injuries she reverted to another love: math and science. Yoky earned a Bachelor of Science degree from UC Berkeley (EECS, 1993), a Masters (1995), and PhD (1998) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science with a specialty in the emerging fields of Artificial Intelligence and Computational Neuroscience. She was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University’s Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences from 1998 to 2000. Subsequently, she became a professor at Carnegie Mellon University (2001 – 2006) before joining the University of Washington (2006 – 2011), where she developed robotic devices for rehabilitating and assisting the human body and brain. In late 2009, Yoky joined Google X as one of the three founding members. She helped start Nest as Vice President of Technology in 2010. In 2015 she became CEO at Quanttus, before joining Apple in 2016, where she worked on healthcare product development. She returned to the Google/Nest in 2017, when she joined as Chief Technology Officer until 2019.
Outside of work, Yoky is heavily involved with the lives of her four children. She believes there is no good time to have children and she supports everyone who wants to have a career and family. She is also Founder and President of YokyWorks Foundation, a non-profit organization that develops solutions to enhance life experience for those with differences in physical and learning abilities.
Yoky has been honored with numerous prestigious awards, including the MacArthur Fellowship, commonly known as the “Genius” Award. This award is prestigious like Nobel Prize but “the fellowship is not a reward for past accomplishment, but rather an investment in a person’s originality, insight, and potential.” In addition to this, some notable awards include The Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from The White House, and she was named one of the Brilliant Ten by Popular Science magazine and one of the Top 10 Women to Watch by Barbie (the doll). She has more than 300 issued or pending patents globally.
