Shusaku Uesugi

On innovating innovation

TEDxUTokyo 2012
Sunday May 20, 2012
Shusaku Uesugi
Product Designer

Uesugi is a young, talented product designer that will share his idea of how design can innovate education. Uesugi studied Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, and finished the Human Computer Interaction (HCI) Masters program in 2010. During his studies at CMU, he interned at Apple and Facebook as Software Engineer and also developed a new computer science course at CMU. After graduation he started working at Q&A website, Quora, as a web designer.

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