Yoky Matsuoka

Who is Yoky Matsuoka?

Yoky Matsuoka is the Vice President of Technology at Nest, where she is in charge of UX and the learning aspects of Nest's thermostat. Previously, she was an associate professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington, director of that university's Neurobotics Laboratory, director of the Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering. Matsuoka is a 2007 MacArthur Fellow, commonly referred to as Genius Award. At UW, her research combined neuroscience and robotics—sometimes referred to by Matsuoka by the portmanteau "neurobotics"—to create more realistic prosthetics.