Summary
Oka Kurniawan is an education-focused technology leader with 12 years of experience shaping computing curricula and academic programmes at SUTD, now serving as Director (Education) in the Office of AI and Digital Innovation. He led SUTD’s largest introductory programming course (2015–2020), developed interdisciplinary offerings like Data Driven World and a Google-collaborative Service Design Studio, and has been subject lead for these courses since 2021. His teaching excellence was recognized with SUTD’s Teaching Excellence award and an Advance HE Fellowship, and he was appointed Deputy Director of the campusX cyber-physical campus initiative and made IEEE Senior Member in 2022. A PhD-trained engineer, he blends hands-on course design with research into game-, robot- and AR/VR-based computing pedagogy, and brings a practical systems perspective from earlier research engineering roles. Outside work he balances pedagogy and innovation with family time, outdoor pursuits, reading and music.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Engineering, PhD Engineering at Nanyang Technological University Singapore