Daisuke "DICE" Yukita | 油木田 大祐

Design engineer.

Born in Japan, raised in London.

Obsessed with making, camping climbing mountains, guitar and ukulele.

Striving to unleash creativity out of people so that everyone on earth can design and make whatever the hell they want and be overwhelmed with self-efficacy.

EMPLOYMENT

- Senior Interaction Designer at IDEO tokyo (September 2018 - present)

- Researcher at Keio University Graduate School of Media Design (KMD) (September 2017 - present)

- Associate Director / Engineer at dot by dot inc. (September 2017 - August 2018)

- Design Thinking Lecturer at Tokyo Metropolitan College of Industrial Technology (April 2017 - August 2018)

- Design Engineer (contract) at Curio School (June 2016 - August 2017)

- Intern at Biotope (June 2016 - December 2016)

- Assistant coach at JFC London (September 2015 - December 2015)

- Volunteer tutor at Learning For All (April 2015 - July 2015)

- Producer (intern) at SMARTEDUCATION, LTD. (July 2014 - March 2015)

EDUCATION

- MA in Media Design from Keio University Graduate School of Media Design (KMD), creating devices for learning at Global Education Project (April 2015 - September 2017)

- Global Innovation Design Program at Pratt Institute, New York (January 2016 - May 2016)

- Global Innovation Design Program at Royal College of Art and Imperial College, London (September 2015 - December 2015)

- BE in Computer Science from Keio University, research on Computer Vision at Saito Hideo Lab (April 2011 - March 2015)

EVENTS

- Judge for Mono Coto Innovoation 2019December 2019

- Maker Faire Tokyo 2019 (The Awakening 2.0) August 2019

- Maker Faire Tokyo 2018 (The Spotify Wig / The Awakening / Web Test Destroyer) August 2018

- SXSW EDU 2018 (Meta Pot / Whitebox) March 2018

- Maker Faire Tokyo 2017 (metronom) August 2017

- The 10th International Conference On Educational Data Mining (Whitebox) June 2017

- International Congress on Love and Sex with Robots 2017 (Teletongue) November 2016

- Dubai Design Week (Global Grad Show 2016) (Telegran) October 2016

- 18TH UNESCO-APEID International Conference 2016 ( Whitebox / Peeking Table) October 2016

- Dynamic Image processing for real Application workshop 2015 (Classification algorithm of a bed monitoring system for senile dementia patients) March 2015