Curriculum vitae

Basics

Name	Rai Sato
Label	Researcher, Sound Engineer
Email	s.rai@aol.jp
Summary	Ph.D student at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). My research aims to enhance the auditory experience in Extended Reality (XR) using the state-of-the-art sound space recognition technologies.

Education

2023 - Present

Daejeon, South Korea
Integrated master's/doctoral program

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

Applied and Innovative Research for Immeresive Sound Lab, Graduate School of Culture Technology
- Superviced by Prof. Sungyoung Kim
2016 - 2021

Tokyo, Japan
Bachelor of Music with Honors

Tokyo University of the Arts

Department of Musical Creativity and the Environment, Faculty of Music
- Superviced by Prof. Atsushi Marui and Prof. Toru Kamekawa
- Major: Psychoacoustics, Sound Recording
- Thesis: Variation in the window of temporal integration with changing attributes of audio-tactile stimuli

Work

2022 - 2023
Laboratory Technician

Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology

Enbodied Cognitive Science Unit, headed by by Prof. Tom Froese
2021 - 2022
Research Internship Student

Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology

Enbodied Cognitive Science Unit, supervised by by Prof. Tom Froese
2020 - 2022
Sound Programmer and Researcher

GATARI Inc.

I am responsible for organizing its authoring system and implementing new audio AR technology using my knowledge of human sound perception and skills in real-time signal processing.
2019 - 2021
International Visiting Research Student

Rochester Institute of Technology

Department of Electrical Computer and Telecommunication Engineering Technology, College of Engineering Technology, headed by by Prof. Sungyoung Kim

Awards

2023.12

Early Career Presentation Awards in Computational Acoustics

Acoustical Society of America

For the presentaion of the paper titled 'Room-aware Portable Auditory Augmented Reality: Real-time Spatial Audio Generation with geometric Data Analysis.'
2023.02

KAIST Global Presidential Scholarship (KGPS)

KAIST

KGPS is a highly selective but distinguished scholarship program offered to outstanding Master's or Master-Ph.D. Integrated degree admitted students. Full Tuition Grant: 4 semesters and Monthly Stipend Guarantee: KRW 1,000,000 for 4 semesters.
2021.06

Acanthus Music Award

Tokyo Universisty of the Arts

An honors by Tokyo University of the Arts.
2020.04

Muto Mai Scholoarship

Tokyo Universisty of the Arts

An exhibition by Tokyo University of the Arts for students with excellent academic and personal attributes.
2019.06

Japan Public-Private Partnership Student Study Abroad Program

Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), Japan

Scholarship for an education abroad.

Skills

	Computer Languages
	Matlab
	R language
	Python
	C#
	Max/MSP

	Software
	Reaper
	Pro tools
	Dante (audio network system)
	Unity
	Wwise
	Adobe Illustrator

	Hardware
	Any kinds of sound equipment
	EEG measurement system (Brain products, BioSemi inc, OpenBCI)
	Prototype making using Auduino, Raspberry Pi, ESP32

	General Skills
	Psychoacoustics experiment design and statistical analysis
	Room acoustics measurement, simulation, and design
	Sound recording for immersive music
	Sound design for AR game and experience
	Sound reproduction system design
	Haptic feedback design
	EEG measurement system design

Languages

	English
	Fluent

	Japanese
	Native Speaker

	Korean
	Basic Communication