Profession

March 2004 -
Principal Investigator, OIST Research Funding Program

May 2003 -
Department Head, ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories

November 1999 -April 2003
Research director, Metalearning, Neuromodulation and Emotion, CREST, JST

October 1999 -
Senior researcher, ATR International

October 1996 - September 1999
Computational neurobiology group leader, Kawato Dynamic Brain Project, JST

April 1995 -
Visiting associate professor, Laboratory for Human Information Processing Studies, Nara Institute of Science and Technology

October 1994 - September 1996
Senior researcher, ATR Human Information Processing Research Laboratories

October 1993 - September 1994
Postdoc at T. Sejnowski lab, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and The Salk Institute

July 1991 - September 1993
Postdoc at A. Selverston lab, Dept. of Biology, UCSD

Education

September 1991
Ph.D. from Graduate School, Univ. of Tokyo

April 1986 - August 1992
Research associate at J. Nagumo, S. Yoshizawa, S. Arimoto, and S. Amari labs
Dept. of Mathematical Engineering and Information Physics, Univ. of Tokyo.

March 1986
MS from Graduate School, Univ. of Tokyo

March 1984
BS from Univ. of Tokyo

Community services

Action Editor, Neural Networks (1993-)

Guest Editor, Neural Networks Special Issue on Computational Models of Neuromodulators (2001-2002)

Action Editor, Neural Computation (1997-)

Action Editor, Network: Computation in Neural Systems (2003-)

Director, Neuroinformatics Summer School (1999-2003)

Board Member (1999-2002) and Vice President (2001-2002), Japanese Neural Network Society

Secretary, Neural Computing Research Group, IEICE (1995-1997)

Overseas Liaison, NIPS*95-98