Bio

After graduating from university with a BA in Astronautics and an MA in Computer Science, Kyoko joined Dentsu in 2010 and built a unique career starting with collaborative research with universities including MIT Media Lab and the University of Tokyo.
As a creative technologist, she works in a wide range where technology matters: from communication planning to product innovation and service development. 
She works extensively with her clients’ engineers and developers, to unveil their technology and to tell the story from the heart of the product with digital and interactive execution. Her projects include ‘Connecting Lifelines’, ‘dots by internavi’ and ‘Sound of Honda / Ayrton Senna 1989’ for Honda’s Internavi, ‘Play Air’ for Olympus, ‘The Space Hangout’ for JAXA and ‘HAKUTO’ for ispace.
She joind ispace in 2015, and now works exclusiveley for ‘HAKUTO’ project.
She has won numerous awards including a Titanium Grand Prix, a Titanium Lion and seven Gold Lions at Cannes, a Black Pencil and four Yellow pencils at D&AD. She has joined the jury member of Digital Crafts category in Cannes Lions in 2016. 
And she is a cat lover.​​​​​​​

Creative Tech Director, Wieden+Kennedy Tokyo
Feb 2020 - Jan 2023

Creative Director, ispace inc. (secondee assignment from Dentsu)
Apr 2015 - Aug 2017
http://team-hakuto.jp/

Creative Technologist, Dentsu Inc.
Apr 2010 – Jan 2020
http://www.dentsu.com/​​​​​​​

D&AD 
Digital & Social, 2024
Digital Marketing, 2019

Cannes Lions 
Mobile, 2018
Digital Craft, 2016

One Show
IP & Product Design, 2024
Interactive, 2018
UX/UI, 2018

Clio
Branded Entertainment, 2024

ACC TOKYO CREATIVITY AWARDS
Branded Communication, 2019 - 2020
Creative Innovation, 2018 - 2019
Chair of Creative Innovation 2020-2021 

...and more.

Master of Interdisciplinary Information Studies
Rekimoto Lab, The University of Tokyo
April 2008 – March 2010
http://lab.rekimoto.org/

Bachelor of Engineering (Aeronautics and Astronautics)
Space Application Lab, The University of Tokyo
April 2004 – March 2008
http://park.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/sal/aiwasaki/

Cat@Log: Cat Wearable Sensing for Supporting Human-Animal Interaction
Kyoko Yonezawa, Masaru Naruoka, Takashi Miyaki, and Jun Rekimoto
Pervasive 2010 video paper, 2010

Human-Animal Interaction のためのウェアラブルセンシングに関する研究
米澤香子
Master’s Thesis, 2010

Cat@Log: Sensing Device Attachable to Pet Cats for Supporting Human-Pet Interaction
Kyoko Yonezawa, Takashi Miyaki, Jun Rekimoto
International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology (ACE2009), 2009

Cat@Log: Human Pet Interactionのための猫ウェアラブルセンシング
米澤香子，味八木崇，暦本純一
第17回インタラクティブシステムとソフトウェアに関するワークショップ(WISS2009), 2009

人工衛星画像を用いた氷河後退の解析  (Glacier Retreat Analysis using Satellite Images)
米澤香子
Bachelor's Thesis, 2008

Creator of IPA Mitoh Program (Organized by Japan's Minestry of Echonomy, Trande and Industry)
Exploratory IT Human Resources Project
October 2008 – March 2009
http://www.ipa.go.jp/english/humandev/third.html