Akiko Ikkai
Research Scientist at Apple
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolAkiko Ikkai is a research scientist in the San Francisco Bay Area with 12 years of experience bridging cognitive neuroscience and user experience research. She leverages a Ph.D. in Psychology and extensive neuroimaging and behavioral expertise to design rigorous experiments, analyze complex datasets, and translate findings into product-ready insights. At Apple since 2017, she applies statistical and experimental rigor to real-world design problems, building on earlier roles at Johns Hopkins, NYU and industry firms where she led EEG/fMRI studies and UX research programs. Akiko’s uncommon blend of academic leadership—training teams and running multidisciplinary labs—and hands-on skills in Matlab, R, and eye-tracking gives her a rare fluency between theory and practice. She is motivated by a long-term goal to empower people with knowledge and consistently frames research to inform actionable product decisions.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
M.S, Psychology, M.S, Psychology at University of OregonPh.D, Psychology, Ph.D, Psychology at New York University
Japanese, EnglishGithub contributions (1)
askaikai/EEGprocess
May 2014 - Sep 2014
Contributions:38 commits in 3 months
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