Momo Kihara
Intern & Illustrator
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMomo Kihara is an interdisciplinary designer-engineer and illustrator with 14 years of practical experience, currently studying Cognitive Science (Design & Interaction) at UC San Diego. They blend research-driven curiosity—demonstrated by leading a JST-backed synesthesia study and publishing a peer-reviewed symposium paper—with hands-on product and visual design work as an intern and illustrator at UCSD’s The Catalyst. Momo has built user-centered mental-health prototypes, contributed to PPG-based stress estimation algorithms, and supported multilingual guest services and operations at high-traffic international venues like Universal Studios Japan and Expo Osaka 2025. Comfortable switching between data analysis, academic writing, UI/UX design (Figma, Photoshop), and frontline customer engagement, they excel at translating complex research into accessible visual narratives and interactive experiences. Notably, as the first high-school intern to lead a project at Kwansei Gakuin’s Sensibility Value Creation Institute, Momo combines early leadership with a rare mix of creative and technical fluency.
14 years of coding experience
Kwansei Gakuin University affiliated Kindergarten (Nishinomiya, Japan)University of California, San DiegoG6-G12 International Baccalaureate (Bilingual Diploma [English&Japanese]), G6-G12 International Baccalaureate (Bilingual Diploma [English&Japanese]) at Marist Brothers International School (Kobe, Japan)G1-G5, G1-G5 at Elementary School of the Sacred Heart (Takarazuka, Japan)
English, Japanese, Korean, Spanish
Github Skills (38)
env10
rbenv10
pyenv10
nodenv10
zsh9
vim8
expansion8
asynchronous7
fuzzy7
python7
nvim6
user-interface6
finder6
cli5
neovim5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
momo-lab/dotfiles
Jul 2013 - Feb 2022
Contributions:510 commits, 203 pushes, 9 branches in 8 years 8 months
momo-lab/zsh-replace-multiple-dots
Apr 2017 - Jul 2021
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
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