Jeffrey Cross
Competition BBQ Contest Representative
Meguro, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolJeffrey Cross is a professor and online education leader based in Meguro, Tokyo, with three decades of experience in Japan bridging materials science, energy systems research, and learning analytics. He founded and manages Tokyo Tech’s Online Content R&D team, co-developing multiple edX MOOCs while applying learning analytics to improve course quality and assess engineering competencies across Japan and Indonesia. Jeffrey leads a multidisciplinary lab working on biofuels, flow batteries, hydrogen separation, LLMs for healthcare, and AI in education, and has supervised a diverse team of faculty and 20 students. His background in microelectronics and ferroelectric memory reliability at Fujitsu complements his later work on Asian energy policy and online pedagogy, a combination that has earned him seven teaching awards. Outside academia he channels his organizational skills into culinary culture as the KCBS-certified Competition BBQ Contest Representative launching KCBS Japan, reflecting an unusual blend of technical rigor and community-focused outreach.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, Microelectronics processing, Characterization, Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, Microelectronics processing, Characterization at Iowa State UniversityM.S., Chemical Engineering, M.S., Chemical Engineering at University of Arkansas at FayettevilleB.S., Chemical Engineeering, B.S., Chemical Engineeering at Kansas State University
Japanese, English
Github Skills (17)
youtube7
batch7
designer6
transcript6
excel6
python6
mining5
jinja25
ttk4
youtube-dl4
edx4
text-mining4
requirements3
monitors2
dashboard2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
TokyoTechX/edx-coursebuilder
Nov 2017 - Mar 2020
tool for creating edx course offline using import/export function utilizing python script and excel sheet
Contributions:4 PRs, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
pythonexportjinja2ttkedx
TokyoTechX-TAs/youtube-batch-upload
Nov 2017 - Mar 2020
youtube batch upload tool uses python script and excel table for URLs
Contributions:6 commits, 3 PRs, 5 pushes in 2 years 5 months
urlspythonbatchbatch-uploadyoutube
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