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Amy Koike

小池(こいけ)栄美(えいみー) 🌮


I am a Ph.D. student at the People and Robots Laboratory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I am passionate about exploring new modalities to animate and vitalize a robotic object for the future where people and robots are co-existing.

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Education ✏️


University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin, US. [Sept’21 - Present] Ph.D. program in Computer Science People and Robots Laboratory Advisor: Bilge Mutlu

University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan. [Apr’17 - March’19] Master of Science in Informatics Thesis: Relationship between Perceived Emotion & Facial Expression of Animated Characters Laboratory for Sound and People with Computing Advisor: Hiroko Terasawa

University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan. [Apr’13 - March’17] Bachelor of Arts in Library and Information Science Thesis: Computational Fabrication and Stabilization Method for Cartesian Diver Digital Nature Group Advisor: Yoichi Ochiai

Employment 👩‍🔧


WHILL, Inc., Tokyo, Japan. [Jun’20 – Aug’21]

Mechanical Engineer -Development of wheelchair-style autonomous mobility [video]

DENTSU, Inc., Tokyo, Japan. [Apr’19 - Sept’20] Activation Planner -Design and marketing strategies for consumer products

Elephantech Inc., Tokyo, Japan. [Oct’17 - Mar’19] Research Engineer(Intern) -Development of foldable electronic circuits

Award & Fund 🏆


Best Paper Award, Human-Robot Interaction 2024

Computer Sciences Summer Fellowship 2022, University of Wisconsin-Madison