Maurício Sousa
Project Senior Assistant Professor at Keio Graduate School of Media Design
Tokyo, Japan
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Top SchoolMaurício Sousa is an Associate Professor and researcher specializing in Human–Computer Interaction, spatial computing, mixed reality, haptics, and AI-powered wearables, with 11 years of experience spanning academia and industry. He currently leads work at Keio University’s Graduate School of Media Design after research roles at Meta Reality Labs and a postdoc at the University of Toronto. His work focuses on designing and empirically evaluating novel interaction techniques for communication, collaboration, and skill transfer, published in top venues like ACM CHI, UIST, ISS, and IEEE TVCG. Maurício combines deep technical expertise from a PhD in HCI with practical product-facing research experience at Meta, enabling lab-to-prototype translation. Based in Tokyo, he contributes to moonshot R&D on cybernetic beings and embodied media, blending theoretical insight with hands-on system building. An interdisciplinary collaborator, he often bridges visualization, multimodal interfaces, and wearable haptics to augment human capabilities in everyday contexts.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Human Computer Interaction, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Human Computer Interaction at Instituto Superior TécnicoProgramming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mauriciosousa/creepytracker
Nov 2015 - Jul 2017
Contributions:3 releases, 43 commits, 41 pushes in 1 year 8 months
mauriciosousa/mauriciosousa.github.io
Dec 2014 - Jan 2023
Contributions:249 commits, 250 pushes in 8 years 2 months
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