CV

Here is Wilma's Curriculum Vitae. Please contact her directly for a more formal version of her CV.

Education


Yale University, 2005-2010
Summa cum laude, with distinction in the major

Research Experience


Research Student; Jouhou System Kougaku Laboratory at the University of Tokyo; Masayuki Inaba, supervisor
2010-2011
  • I am currently conducting human-robot interaction research, while also looking at the underlying cultural characteristics that lead to differences in Japanese and American robotics research.
Research Assistant; Social Robotics Laboratory at Yale University; Brian Scassellati, supervisor
2005-2010
  • I conducted an independent human-robot interaction study, involving a complex robot-computer interface. This research was published in an international conference (ROMAN 2008), and has been submitted to the Internal Journal of Social Robotics. My senior thesis concentrated on artificial intelligence and online social networking.
    Refer to: My publications
Paid Research Assistant; Visual Neuroscience Laboratory at Yale University; Marvin Chun, supervisor
2007-2010
  • I conducted several simultaneous fMRI experiments under the guidance of Yaoda Xu and Brice Kuhl, on visual stimulus processing in the brain.
    Refer to: Yaoda Xu and Marvin M. Chun. Selecting and perceiving multiple visual objects. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Vol. 13, Issue 4 (1 April 2009), pp. 167-174.
Paid Research Assistant; Laboratory of Neuropsychology at the National Institutes of Mental Health; Richard Saunders, supervisor
Summer 2008, 2009
  • In summer of 2009, I conducted resesarch examining the effect of muscarinic receptor antagonists on visual short term memory, through behavioral studies run with rhesus macaques. The previous year, I did related behavioral studies relating to studying rhesus macaques' performance on delayed non-matched to sample tasks.
    Refer to: Janita Turchi, Richard C. Saunders, Mortimer Mishkin. Effects of Cholinergic Deafferentation of the Rhinal Cortex on Visual Recognition Memory in Monkeys. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 102, No. 6 (Feb. 8, 2005), pp. 2158-2161.
Field Study Researcher; Comparative Cognition Laboratory at Kyoto University; Kazuo Fujita, supervisor
2008-2009
  • I participated in their lab seminar conducted in both Japanese and English, and helped graduate students with experiments and preparing talks and papers for international conferences. I was able to observe experiments with horses, capuchin monkeys, and roosters.
    Refer to: This article about Kazuo Fujita's work.
Research Assistant; Comparative Cognition Laboratory at Yale University; Laurie Santos, supervisor
2006-2007 Research Assistant; Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory at University of Maryland College Park; Douglas Oard, supervisor
2004
  • I independently programmed a computer interface for the Multilingual Access to Large Spoken Archives (MALACH) project that can generate a searchable map and timeline for each of the over 52,000 people in the Shoah Visual History Archive.
    Refer to: My publications

Publications


Please refer to my publications page.

Work Experience


(Note: most of my research work was also as a paid worker and is not noted here)

Teaching Assistant; "English for Engineers and Scientists" at the University of Tokyo Engineering Department; Kumiko Morimura, employer
2010-2011
English Tutor for Japanese Businesspeople (Tokyo); IHCWay
2010-2011
English Tutor for Japanese Businesspeople (Kyoto); Foreign Instructors Center of Japan
2008-2009
Library Assistant; The Center for Hellenic Studies at Harvard University
2005-2007

Organizations and Honors


Phi Beta Kappa
Member of the Yale chapter, second recruitment 2009
Psi Chi
(psychology honors society) 2008
The Light Fellowship Student Advisory Committee
2009-2010; Secretary
The Yale Japanese American Students Union
2006-2010; Social Chair 2006-2008
The Yale Film Society
2005-2010; Executive Board 2006-2009, Treasurer 2009
Silver Quill Literary Magazine
(National award-winning high school magazine) 2003-2005; Editor-in-Chief 2004-2005

Awards


Recipient of the Fox International Fellowship 2010-2011
Full-funding for year-long research at the University of Tokyo as a Visiting Exchange Student

Recipient of the Gordon Grand Fellowship 2010-2011
Full-funding for year-long research at the University of Tokyo

Yale Richard U. Light Fellowship
Two time recipient:
The Mid-Atlantic ADA Center's Web Accessibility Award, First Place (for my work on a video game glitch database website)
2004

Certifications

fMRI Research (2008-2010) I have received training that allows me to work with MRI machines.
Non-human Primates Research (2007-2009) I have experience and training working with capuchins and rhesus macaques.
TIPS International Bartending License (2010-2013) I gained this license while working as a bartender at Yale University reunion events

Skills

Languages: Advanced (almost fluent) in Japanese, Intermediate in French
Programming: Have extended experience with Java, LISP, Matlab, Perl, HTML, Prolog, Scheme, Pascal, BASIC
Software: Skilled with SPSS, Solidworks, Microsoft Office (including advanced Excel)