Date of Birth
November 12, 1953
Education
He received the B.S. degree in physics from Tokyo University in 1976 and the M.E. and Ph.D. degrees in biophysical engineering from Osaka University in 1978 and 1981, respectively.
Professional Positions
From 1981 to 1988, he was a faculty member and lecturer at Osaka University. From 1988, he was a senior researcher and then a supervisor in ATR Auditory and Visual Perception Research Laboratories. In 1992, he became department head of Department 3, ATR Human Information Processing Research Laboratories. In 2003, he became Director of ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories. Since 2004, he has been an ATR Fellow. In 2010, he became Director of ATR Brain Information Communication Research Laboratory Group.
From 2008 to 2016, he was appointed to the position of Research Supervisor of PRESTO, JST. From 2013 to 2018, he was jointly appointed as a Research Leader of BMI Technology/Field 3, SRPBS, Japanese MEXT. From 2014 to 2019, he was jointly appointed as an indicates manager for Portable BMI, ImPACT, Japanese Cabinet Office. In 2018, he was jointly appointed as a R&D Principal Investigator of Brain/MINDS Beyond 3-1, AMED. From 2015 to 2018, jointly appointed as a Field reader of Brain research, Center for Novel Science Initiative, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Japan. From 2016 to 2018, he was jointly appointed as an Appointed Advisor, in 2018 jointly appointed as a Special Advisor, Center for Advanced Integrated intelligence Research, Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN).
And From 1996 to 2001, he was appointed director of the Kawato Dynamic Brain Project, ERATO, JST. Then from 2004 to 2009, he was appointed to the position of Research Supervisor of the Computational Brain Project, ICORP, JST. He is now concurrently working as a visiting professor at Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Toyama Prefectural University, Kyoto University, Tokyo Institute of Technology, and Tamagawa University,
In addition, he belongs to the following Societies and so on;
- Foreign member of North America Society for Neuroscience
- IEICE (The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers) Fellow
- President of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Japan Neuroscience Society
- Director of Toyobo Biotechnology Foundation
- Director of Shimadzu Science Foundation
- Director of Brain Century Promotion Conference
Awards
1986 Toyama award of The Toyama Foundation
1988 Grant-in-aid award of Brain Science Foundation
1991 Excellent paper award and Yonezawa Founder’s Medal Memorial Special Award of
The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers
1992 Sawaragi memorial paper award of Society of Instrument and Control Engineers
1992 Outstanding Research Award of the International Neural Network Society
1993 Persons of scientific and technological research merits of commendation by
the Ministry of state for Science and Technology
1993 Paper award of Japanese Neural Networks Society
1993 Research award of Japanese Neural Networks Society
1993 Osaka Science Prize
1994 Paper award of Japanese Neural Networks Society
1994 Research award of Japanese Neural Networks Society
1996 10th Tsukahara Naka-akira Memorial Award
1997 Paper award of Japanese Neural Networks Society
1997 The Okawa Publications Prize
1998 Tomoda paper award of the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers
2001 Tokizane Toshihiko memorial award
2001 Visual Science Festa Superior award
2004 IEICE Fellow (The Intstitute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers)
2005 58th Chunichi Cultural Award
2005 Shida Rinzaburo Award
2006 The Asahi Prize
2007 Paper award of Japanese Neural Networks Society
2007 APNNA Outstanding Achievement Award
2008 INNS Gabor Award
2008 Funai Achievement Award 2008
2009 Info-Communications Promotion Month Ministerial Commendations at 2009
2009 The OKAWA Prize
2012 2nd Tateisi Prize, Grand Award
2012 College of Fellows (International Neural Network Society)
2013 Awarded Japan’s Purple Ribbon Medal
2017. Member, Science Council of Japan (- 2023)
2017 Academic award of Japanese Neural Networks Society
2017 C&C Prize
2022 Japan Academy Prize → Dr. Kenji Doya, OIST contributed article “Chemistry today, 7(616), 74”
2022 The 37th Telecommunications Advancement Foundation Award (Telecom Interdisciplinary Research Award, Incentive Award)