Aiko Kato
Senior Class Committee Board Member at Associated Students of Pomona College
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAiko Kato is a rising senior at Pomona College double-majoring in Computer Science and Biology with eight years of practical experience blending design, data analysis, and product strategy. She pairs front-end and back-end development skills—demonstrated by contributions to fast video upscaling tooling—with UI/UX sensibility from internships at teamLab and HOSOO. Skilled at translating user needs into data-driven design, she has supported digital transformation projects at McKinsey and operational strategy at Netflix. On campus she drives student governance and research communications, managing project websites and symposium outreach for work on assistive technologies in East Asia. Comfortable moving between code, visualization, and stakeholder-facing roles, she brings a cross-disciplinary perspective that amplifies technical solutions with human-centered design. Based in California, she’s motivated by opportunities to turn complex data into actionable strategy and accessible experiences.
8 years of coding experience
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Toshimagaoka JoshigakuenHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Waikato Diocesan School for GirlsBachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science, Digital Media Studies, Biology, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science, Digital Media Studies, Biology at Pomona College
English, Japanese, Korean
Github Skills (9)
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
image-processing10
algorithms9
threaded8
multithreading8
hyper-threading8
360-video8
thread8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
akai-katto/dandere2x
Mar 2019 - Dec 2022
Dandere2x - Fast Waifu2x Video Upscaling.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:59 releases, 755 commits, 169 PRs in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Aiko's contributions primarily focused on refactoring and reorganizing code related to residual calculations, renaming files, and removing code related to resume functionality. They also added documentation and comments to improve the code's readability. The changes involve modifications to image processing libraries and core logic within the project's backend functionality.
waifu2x-videowaifu2xpythoncompressionfaster
urmamasllama/dandere2x
Feb 2019 - Jul 2019
Dandere2x - Fast Waifu2x Video Upscaling.
Contributions:11 commits in 4 months
waifu2x-videowaifu2xpythonupscalingpython-3
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