Yasuyuki Ueda (上田 耕行, Ueda Yasuyuki) is a Japanese producer, who has worked on such projects as Serial Experiments Lain (a producer and story writer). He was a director for the Noel video game, worked on the Lain video game, as well as on Wachenröder for the Sega Saturn. He first hired Yoshitoshi Abe, who would become a regular collaborator on many other anime projects.