MEI Team

Yasuyuki Kataoka is a Research Scientist in the NTT Research MEI Lab, where his primary interest is in applied research and development in machine learning applications for human performance improvement. His data science work involves time series and heterogeneous data such as vision, audio, text, and IoT sensor signals in the fields of healthcare, sports, and the automobile industry. His other areas of interest include nonlinear control systems, such as those used in self-driving cars and drone systems. When not doing research activities, he is participating in hackathons, where he has won prizes in the healthcare and automobile industries. Yasu received his master’s and bachelor’s degrees in mechanical and system engineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology, where he graduated valedictorian.