Oka Kurniawan
Principal Lecturer at Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)
Singapore, Singapore
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Top SchoolOka 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.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Engineering, PhD Engineering at Nanyang Technological University Singapore
Github Skills (29)
data-driven10
sql9
e-mail9
safe-exam-browser7
documentation-generator7
kiosk-mode7
drracket6
markdown6
minor-mode6
kiosk5
emacs5
pdf5
jupyter5
exams5
scheme4
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
kurniawano/50.002_courseware
Jun 2013 - Jul 2016
Contributions:11 commits, 7 pushes in 3 years 1 month
Data-Driven-World/2023
Aug 2023 - May 2026
Contributions:30 reviews, 11 PRs, 106 pushes in 2 years 9 months
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