Yoky Matsuoka is VP of Technology at Nest Labs, where she leads the development of the learning and control technology for the Nest thermostat and smoke detector. Perviously, she co-founded Google X after resigning from a tenured professorship at the University of Washington and Carnegie Mellon University. Matsuoka holds a MacArthur Fellowship.

Vice President of Technology @ From 2010 to Present (5 years) Founder & President @ From 2007 to Present (8 years) Associate Professor (2006-2009) and Torode Family Endowed Career Development Professor (2009-2011) @ From 2006 to 2011 (5 years) Head of Innovation @ From 2009 to 2010 (1 year) Assistant Professor (2001 - 2006) and Adjunct (2006-2010) @ The Robotics Institute, Mechanical Engineering, the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, and Biomedical Engineering Founder/Director of the Neurobotics Laboratory. From 2001 to 2010 (9 years) Product Manager (1995-1997) and Consultant (1997-2010) @ From 1995 to 2010 (15 years) Consultant @ From 2009 to 2009 (less than a year) Visiting Professor @ From 2008 to 2009 (1 year) Clinical Adjunct Assistant Professor @ From 2002 to 2006 (4 years) Postdoctoral Fellow @ Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences From 1998 to 2000 (2 years) Consultant @ From 1995 to 1999 (4 years) Postdoctoral Fellow @ Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences From 1998 to 1998 (less than a year)

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electrical Engineering and Computer Science @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology From 1993 to 1998 Master's degree, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science @ Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBachelor's degree, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science @ University of California, Berkeley Yoky Matsuoka is skilled in: Mechanical Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Biomedical Engineering, Robotics, Computer Science, Engineering, Algorithms, Programming, Embedded Systems, Machine Learning, Electrical Engineering, Matlab, Simulations, Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Human Computer Interaction, Software Engineering