Yoky Matsuoka

Yoky Matsuoka
松岡陽子
Matsuoka in 2011
Born	c. 1972 Japan
Alma mater	University of California, Berkeley MIT
Awards	MacArthur Fellows Program
Scientific career
Fields	Computer science
Institutions	University of Washington; Carnegie Mellon University; Barrett Technology; Google Nest

Yoky Matsuoka (松岡陽子 Matsuoka Yōko, born c. 1972 in Japan) is the CEO and Founder of Yohana (an independent subsidiary of Panasonic).^[1] She was the CTO of Google Nest, a co-founder of Google X and previously held roles as VP of Technology and Analytics at Twitter, technology executive at Apple, and as VP of Technology at Nest.^{[2][3][4][5][6]}

Previously, she was an assistant professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University and an associate professor of computer science at the University of Washington, director of Washington's Neurobotics Laboratory, director of the Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering. She is a 2007 MacArthur Fellow. At University of Washington, her research combined neuroscience and robotics—sometimes referred to by Matsuoka by the portmanteau neurobotics—to create more realistic prosthetics.^[7]