Kent Katsumata Portfolio
About Me
5 years of solid working experience as an instructor, curriculum director, and in-house software engineer at Japan's leading EdTech startup. Native speaker of English and Japanese. Expertise lies in ubiquitous computing, HCI, networking, and machine learning.
A tech savvy, I fully utilize an array of leading-edge softwares and hardwares, and through various
approaches shape my inspiration into design, user experience, prototyping, and development.
Project
Management
UI/UX
Design
Prototyping
Development
Team Lead
Education
2020/09 ~ 2022/09
Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University
Cyber Informatics Program
Member of Nakazawa and Okoshi Lab.
2016/09 ~ 2020/09
Keio University Faculty of Environment and Information Studies
Member of Jin Nakazawa/Jun Murai Joint Lab.
Leader of Computing for Human Well-being Research Group
2003 ~ 2016
St. Mary’s International School
High School Diploma
Honor Roll Awards: Design Technology, Japanese, Music
Experience
2019/04 ~ Present
Life is Tech USA, Inc.
Senior Instructor / Launching Team Member / Service Design
Launching member of Life is Tech USA. Involved in product development especially the storytelling and
narrative strategies of “Disney Codeillusion”, an online coding tutorial coproduced with Disney.
2017/05 ~ Present
Life is Tech, Inc.
Curriculum Director (Web Service, Life is Tech ! Lesson) / Mentor (Instructor)
Oversee and motivate a team who are in charge of curriculum development and operations for Web Service Programming Course. / Curriculum development of Life is Tech ! Lesson, Japan's No.1 programming curriculum for schools.
2020/09 ~ 2020/09
Yahoo Japan Corporation
Summer Internship / iOS Development
Worked on implementing a new feature for the Yahoo! JAPAN iOS app.
2020/08 ~ 2020/08
Cookpad Inc.
Summer Internship / Engineer Course
Created "DishUp," an iOS app that allows users to peer review each other's plating skills.
Work
Skill
Swift
iOS Development
Python
Django, Data Science, ML
Unity C#
AR/MR Development
HTML / CSS / JS
Bootstrap, p5.js
Dart
Flutter Development
Adobe
Ps, Ai, Xd, Pr, Ae
Award/Publication
Award of Excellence, SPAJAM Hackathon 2020 Qualification Round 3
First Place, Smart Hackathon by ZENRIN 2019
First place, High School Business Idea Competition 2015
Finalist and awarded Hikari TV Award, Teens Apps Award 2015
K.Katsumata, Y.Noda, N.Isokawa, S.Katayama, T.Okoshi and J.Nakazawa, “SleepThermo: The affect of
in-cloth monitored body temperature change during sleep on human well-being.” in Proceedings of The 2019 ACM
International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing Adjunct Publication – UbiComp ’19 United
Kingdom, London Adjunct, 2019, pp. 1602–1607
K.Katsumata, Y.Eigen, Y.Noda, M.Tsuruoka, S.Hashiba, S.Numoto, S.Katayama, T.Okoshi, and
J.Nakazawa, “Motivating Long-term Dietary Habit Modification through Mobile MR Gamification" In Proceedings of
the 17th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys ’19 South
Korea, Seoul). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 671-672.