Hello! I’m Aki, a game developer that uses creativity and technology to inspire and to connect with audiences
Recognitions
Excellence in Iterative Design and Development
2025
Commencement and Achievement Award given by New York University Integrated Design & Media (IDM) program to an IDM student with outstanding achievement in iterative design in their senior project
National Center for Women and Information Technology Award for Aspirations in Computing
2019
First Place EarthxHack Winner
2018
IEEE TVCG (2021) & IEEE ISMAR Adjunct (2020) Researcher
2025
Contributed to a paper (primarily experiment execution and drafting the experiment section) that was published in the IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality Adjunct (ISMAR-Adjunct, 5 citations), later expanded into a journal article in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG, 19 citations)
Selected Work
From GPU-rendering pipelines in Vulkan, to Elden-Ring-style bosses in Unreal Engine, to a fully shipped narrative game built solo, I have enjoyed building systems. Each project allowed me to learn how something works at its core and then understand it better as I build a form of it.