Dr. Salvador A. Barrera

Salvador Barrera is a faculty member at the Entertainment Technology Center of Carnegie Mellon University. Originally from Mexico City, he graduated from Tokyo Institute of Technology where he obtained both a Masters and Doctoral degree of Computer Science and Engineering in the field of Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality. Before he joined Carnegie Mellon, he dedicated his research to develop a new input device for virtual environments. He has published several papers at conferences such as SIGGRAAPH, Computer Graphics International, IEEE, ICEC and many others. He is currently the Program Director of ETC-Japan in Osaka where he also serves as Faculty Advisor for projects with                                                NEC in Nara and GL and Associates in Korea

 

 

 

 

Mika Sasaki

Mika is currently the Assistant Program Director at the ETC-Japan campus of Carnegie Mellon University’s Entertainment Technology Center (ETC-Global). One of her main roles is to advise the ETC-Global students to have a better understanding of Japanese culture and language in order for them to adapt to life in Japan smoothly. Mika previously worked for Denso in the UK, British education organization, the government of Victoria and a British law firm to promote the development of foreign institutions and companies to be successful in Japan. She obtained a Master’s degree in Marketing from the University of Birmingham and a Bachelor’s degree from Osaka University.