# Yuka Murata

> Graphics Software Engineer at Apple

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/yuka

I am a creative problem solver with a strong background in Computer Graphics and Software Development. I am passionate about technology and art, and I love working where these two unite.

I graduated from the University of Southern California in 2020 with a Master of Science in Computer Science, specializing in Multimedia and Creative Technologies.

Interests:
    * 3D Computer Graphics
    * Digital Humans
    * Machine Learning and Deep Learning
    * Animation
    * AR/VR
    * Gaming
    * Software Development

## Work Experience
### Graphics Software Engineer @ Apple
Jan 2021 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Software Engineer @ The Initiative
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Santa Monica, California, United States
· Xbox Game Studios, Microsoft
· Worked on Perfect Dark
· Developed tools and engine

### Course Producer @ USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Greater Los Angeles Area
· Course assistance for Prof. Jernej Barbic with his Computer Graphics course
· Question answering, office hours, and grading of assignments and exams

### Research Programmer Intern @ USC Institute for Creative Technologies
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Playa Vista
· Engineering assistance in the Vision and Graphics Lab, supervised by Dr. Hao Li and Kalle Bladin
· Rigging, animation and rendering of virtual humans
· Pipeline engineering
· Facial landmark detection (CPM)
· Machine Learning and Computer Vision
· Pre-trained model transfer
· Data processing
· Generative hair modeling and rendering (PCA)

Links
· GTC 2020: Generative Face Models from Light Stage Scans (NVIDIA, April 2020)
Link: bit.ly/ymurata-media4 (log-in required)
· How I got turned into a 3D avatar | Digitizing humans (Deutsche Welle, January 2020)
· Rise of the Digital Human (Wall Street Journal, November 2019)
· USC's 'Light Stage' Digitizes Human Faces for Films, Games (Spectrum News 1, October 2019)

### Development Intern @ HyreCar Inc.
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Greater Los Angeles Area
· Computer vision and optical character recognition (OCR) for car registrations
· Serverless system with AWS Lambda
· Data retrieval with GraphQL

### Student Community Outreach Project Coordinator @ USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Greater Los Angeles Area
· STEM outreach especially focusing on under-represented minorities
· Coding lesson planning
· Website maintenance
· Planning on university-wide events

### Summer Full Stack Intern @ Emerada Co., Ltd.
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Tokyo, Japan
· Development of a whole corporate website from scratch in Ruby on Rails
· Corporate site link: https://www.emerada.co.jp
· Database system design for news feed and blogs
· Cross-platform and cross-webbrowser design for iOS and Android
· Rake tasks to upload HTML files to AWS S3, allowing for serverless

### Resident Assistant @ University of Evansville
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Evansville, Indiana Area
Enhanced community and achieved 4.9/5.0 satisfaction from resident survey

### Summer Intern @ UBS: Global Cash and Securities for Banks
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Tokyo, Japan
· Success in the first RPA project at UBS Tokyo
· Automated the stock price collection process from multiple resources and in multiple formats
· Became familiar with the internal systems and operation work

### Summer Engineer Intern @ R-infinity Co., Ltd.
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Tokyo, Japan
· Web and software development
· Web game development
· UI/UX design


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science
University of Southern California

### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
University of Evansville


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/yukamurata
- GitHub: https://github.com/yukamurata27
- Portfolio: https://bit.ly/ymurata-demoreel-may20
- Portfolio: https://trivr.github.io/

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Last updated: 2026-03-29