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About Me
I am interested in understanding how biological systems work using quantitative and engineering methods.
I completed my bachelor's and master's degrees from University of Tokyo where I majored in systems engineering. I then became interested in figuring out how the brain works at the systems level. I obtained my Ph.D. in systems neuroscience from the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT. I then work as a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School. I am currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Chinese Institute for Brain Research, Beijing (CIBR), leading a group working on data analysis problems in neuroscience. |
Education |
Ph.D. in Neuroscience, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT, 2015
(Advisor: Michale Fee) M.S. in Information Physics and Computing, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, 2008 B.S. in Mathematical Engineering and Information Physics, The University of Tokyo, 2006 |
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Honors & Awards
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Research Experience |
Chinese Institute for Brain Research, Beijing (CIBR) 2022 – present
Using modern data science and machine learning tools to accelerate neuroscience research Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 2015 – 2022 Neural circuit mechanisms underlying wind-guided navigation in Drosophila Advisor: Rachel Wilson Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 2008 – 2015 Neural mechanisms of song learning in juvenile zebra finches Advisor: Michale Fee The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan 2006 – 2008 Development of brain machine interfaces in rats Advisors: Kunihiko Mabuchi, Takafumi Suzuki The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan 2005 – 2006 Investigating relationships between reaction times and brain activities measured by MEG Advisors: Tsunehiro Takeda, Kaoru Amano |