CURRICULUM VITAE
July 1, 2019

Hiroyuki Nakahara, Ph.D.

Laboratory for Integrated Theoretical Neuroscience
RIKEN Center for Brain Science
2-1 Hirosawa, Wako
Saitama 351-0198 JAPAN
Phone: +81-48-467-9663
Fax:+81-48-467-9643
E-mail: hiroyuki.nakahara@riken.jp
http://www.itn.brain.riken.jp

EDUCATION
DegreeInstitute

Year

Ph.D.
M.S.
B.A.

Department of Multidisciplinary Studies, University of Tokyo
Department of Multidisciplinary Studies, University of Tokyo
Department of Natural and Artificial Systems, University of Tokyo

1997
1992
1990

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Position

Institute

PeriodTeam Leader

RIKEN Center for Brain Science
Laboratory for Integrated Theoretical Neuroscience
RIKEN Brain Science InstituteLaboratory for Integrated Theoretical Neuroscience
RIKEN Brain Science InstituteLaboratory for Integrated Theoretical Neuroscience
RIKEN Brain Science InstituteLaboratory for Mathematical Neuroscience
RIKEN Brain Science InstituteLaboratory for Mathematical Neuroscience
RIKEN Brain Science InstituteLaboratory for Information Synthesis
University of California, San Diego
Department of Cognitive Science

04/2018–present

Senior Team Leader
Team Leader
Staff Scientist
Research Scientist
Special Postdoctoral
Researcher
Visiting Graduate

04/2014–03/2018
01/2006–03/2014
04/2005–12/2005
04/2000–03/2005
04/1997–03/2000
12/1993–04/1996

TEACHING EXPERIENCE (Selected)
Position

Institute

PeriodAdjunct Professor

Kyoto University

06/2015–present

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Visiting Lecturer
Adjunct Professor

Visiting Lecturer(Professor status)
Visiting Associate
Professor
Visiting Lecturer
Teaching AssistantGraduate School of Informatics, Department of Intelligence
Science and Technology
Tokyo Medical and Dental University
Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences
Tokyo Institute of Technology
Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science andEngineering, Department of Computational Intelligence andSystems Science
Waseda University
Department of Life Science and Medical Bioscience
Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Department of Knowledge System Science, School of
Knowledge Science
Meiji University
Graduate School of Science and Technology
University of Tokyo
Department of Natural and Artificial Systems

04/2013–03/2015
10/2007–03/2012

09/2007–07/2009
10/2000–03/2003

04/1998–03/2001
09/1992–09/1993

AWARDS and FELLOWSHIPS (Selected)
Award/Fellowship

Organization

Year/Period

JSAI SIG Research Award 2017
Young Investigator Award
Special Postdoctoral Fellowship
JSPS Research Fellowship

Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence
Japan Neuroscience Society
RIKEN
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science for
Young Scientists
Rotary One Foundation

2017
2004
1997–2000
1996–1997

University of Tokyo

1993–1994

Rotary International
Ambassadorial Scholarship
Study Abroad Fellowship

1994–1995

SERVICES (Selected)
External

Year/Period

The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, Council member

2017/04–present

Human Imaging Study Group (in Japan), Committee member

2017/04–present

RLDM2017 (The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA)
Program (Reviewing) Committee member

2017

A section writer for the report “Panoramic View of the Systems andInformation Science and Technology Field (2017)” by Center for Researchand Development Strategy Japan Science and Technology Agency

2016

A guest talk and discussion on artificial intelligence and a brain science fora meeting of Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications

2016/04

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The 40th Annual Meeting of the Japan Neuroscience Society, Program
Committee member

2016–2017

RLDM2015 (The University of Alberta., Edmonton, Alberta, Canada),
Program (Reviewing) Committee member

2015

Mechanism of Brain and Mind Workshop, Deputy Chair

2015–present

Mechanism of Brain and Mind Workshop, Planning Committee

2014–2015

The 21st International Conference on Neural Information Processing(Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia) Program Committee

2014

Shonan meeting ("Deep Learning: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications"),
Neurobiology section chair

2014

RLDM2013 (the 1st Multidisciplinary Conference on Reinforcement Learningand Decision Making; Princetion Univ., New Jersey, USA), Program(Reviewing) Committee member

2013

The 20th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (Daegu,
Korea) Program member

2013

International workshop “Modeling Neural Activity: Statistics, Dynamical
Systems, and Networks”（Hawaii, USA） Co-organizer

2013/06

Board Member of the Japanese Neural Network Society

2013–2017

1st-stage Referee for Grant-in-Aids for Scientific Research and for Young
Scientisists in the field, Basic / Social brain science

2012–2013,2013–2014

Symposium Organizer (“Functional architecture of collective neuralactivities and their networks: new advances in experimental and theoretical
approaches”), Japanese Neuroscience Society Meeting

2012

Fellowship Review Committee Member for the Human Frontier Science
Program

2011–2012

Symposium Organizer (“New perspectives on value-based decision
making”), Japanese Neuroscience Society Meeting2010

1st-stage Referee for doctoral/postdoctoral fellowships by Japan Society
for The Promotion Science (JSPS)

2010–2011

1st-stage Referee for Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative
Areas (Research in a Proposed Research Project)

2009

Planning Group Member (Medical/Neuroscience Section), the 3rdJapanese-French Frontiers of Science Symposium

2009

Co-organizer of the International Workshop “Open Problems in
Neuroscience of Decision Making,” OIST, Okinawa

2008

Editor for Neural Networks
Editor for Biological Cybernetics

2003–2005,
2008–present
2007–2017

Editor for Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience

2006–present

Committee member of the Neurocomputing Technical Group, Informationand Systems Society, The Institute of Electronics, Information, andCommunication Engineers

2002–2008

Assistant Secretary of the Neurocomputing Technical Group, Informationand Systems Society, The Institute of Electronics, Information, and

2000–2002

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Communication Engineers
Internal (RIKEN Brain Science Institute, or related to RIKEN)
57th RIKEN evening seminar lecture

12/2018

Organizing a summer school (domestic in Japan) on artificial intelligenceand brain science at RIKEN BSI, under a grant group organization(“Correspondence and Fusion of Artificial Intelligence and Brain Science”)

08/2017

Preparation Member for RIKEN BSI－Omron Collaboration Center

12/2016‐presentrdth

3 BSI panel talk session in 20 anniversary memorial event (public event)

11/2016

Brain Science Café talk (public lecture on a RIKEN open day)04/2016

Member for BSI Future Strategic Planning Discussion Group
Organizing mini-symposium series on Cognition, Decision-making andSocial function (2014/10, 2015/01, 2015/04, 2016/10)
Organizing mini-symposium series on Computations, Brains andMachines (2014/07, 2015/07, 2016/03, 2016/07)

05/2015‐02/2016
2014–present

Brain Science Training Program lecture

Referee Member for "Special Postdoctoral Researchers" fellowships

2012, 2013, 2014,2015, 2016, 2017,2018, 20192007

BSI International Summer School lecture (BSI lecture)

2006, 2012

BSI Tutorial Series lecture

2006, 2007, 2008

BSI Retreat Organizing Committee

2001, 2010, 2011

BSI International Summer School, Organizing Committee Member

2000

2014–present

JOURNAL PUBLICATIONSFukuda H, Ma N, Suzuki S, Harasawa N, Ueno K, Gardner JL, Ichinohe N, Haruno M, Cheng K,
Nakahara H. (2019) Computing Social Value Conversion in the Human Brain. Journal of
Neuroscience. 39 (26): 5153-5172.
Kass RE, Amari S, .…, Nakahara H, …., Kramer MA. [25 authors in total] (2018) Computational
neuroscience: Mathematical and statistical perspectives. Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application.
5: 183-214.
Terada S, Sakurai Y, Nakahara H, Fujisawa S. (2017) Temporal and rate coding for discrete event
sequences in the hippocampus. Neuron. 94(6): 1248-1262.
Kaveri S, Nakahara H. (2014) Dual reward prediction components yield pavlovian sign- and goaltracking. Plos One. 9(10): e108142.
Nakahara H. (2014) Multiplexing signals in reinforcement learning with internal models and dopamine.
Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 25: 123-129.
Kim CH, Tsujino H, Nakahara H. (2013) Reinforcement learning system based on heuristics free state
focusing. Advanced Robotics. 27(10): 749-758.

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Nakamura K, Santos GS, Matsuzaki R, Nakahara H. (2012) Differential reward coding in thesubdivisions of the primate caudate during an oculomotor task. The Journal of Neuroscience. 32(45):15963–15982.
Nakahara H, Hikosaka O. (2012) Learning to represent reward structure: a key to adapting to complex
environments. Neuroscience Research. 74(3-4): 177–183.
Suzuki S, Harasawa H, Ueno K, Gardner JL, Ichinohe N, Haruno M, Cheng K, Nakahara H. (2012)
Learning to simulate others’ decisions. Neuron. 74: 1125–1137.
Santos GS, Nagasaka Y, Fujii N, Nakahara H. (2012) Encoding of social state information by neuronal
activities in the macaque caudate nucleus. Social Neuroscience. 7(1): 42–58.
Yu S, Yang H, Nakahara H, Santos GS, Nikolić D, Plenz D. (2011) Higher-order interactions
characterized in cortical activity. The Journal of Neuroscience. 31(48): 17514–17526.
Nakahara H, Kaveri S. (2010) Internal-time temporal difference model for neural value-based decision
making. Neural Computation. 22(12): 3062–3106.
Bromberg-Martin ES, Matsumoto M, Nakahara H, Hikosaka O. (2010) Multiple timescales of memory
in lateral habenula and dopamine neurons. Neuron. 67(3): 499–510.
Santos GS, Gireesh ED, Plenz D, Nakahara H. (2010) Hierarchical interaction structure of neuralactivities in cortical slice cultures. The Journal of Neuroscience. 30(26): 8720–8733.
Bissmark F, Nakahara H, Doya K, Hikosaka O. (2008) Combining modalities with different latencies for
optimal motor control. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 20(11): 1966–1979.
Plessy C, Fagiolini M, Wagatsuma A, Harasawa N, Kuji T, Asaka-Obam A, Kanzaki Y, Fujishima S,
Waki K, Nakahara H, Hensch TK, Carninci P. (2008) A resource for transcriptomic analysis in themouse brain. PLoS ONE. 3(8): e3012.
Takenaka K, Nagasaka Y, Hihara S, Nakahara H, Iriki A, Kuniyoshi Y, Fujii N. (2007) Linear
discrimination analysis of monkey behavior in an alternative free choice task. Journal of Robotics andMechatronics. 19(4): 416–422.
Nakahara H, Nakamura K, Hikosaka O. (2006) Extended LATER model can account for trial-by-trial
variability of both pre- and post-processes. Neural Networks. 19(8): 1027–1046.
Nakahara H, Morita K, Wurtz RH, Optican LM. (2006) Saccade-related spread of activity acrosssuperior colliculus may arise from asymmetry of internal connections. Journal of Neurophysiology.
96(2): 765–774.
Amari S, Nakahara H. (2006) Correlation and independence in the neural code. Neural Computation.
18(6): 1259–1267.
Hikosaka O, Nakamura K, Nakahara H. (2006) Basal ganglia orient eyes to reward. Journal of
Neurophysiology. 95(2): 567–584.
Nakahara H, Amari S, Richmond BJ. (2006) A comparison of descriptive models of a single spike train
by information-geometric measure. Neural Computation. 18(3): 545–568.

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Nelson B, Nishimura S, Kanuka H, KuranagaE, Inoue M, Hori G, Nakahara H, Miura M. (2005)
Isolation of gene sets affected specifically by polyglutamine expression: Implication of the TOR signaling
pathway in neurodegeneration. Cell Death and Differentiation. 12(8): 1115–1123.
Amari S, Nakahara H. (2005) Difficulty of singularity in population coding. Neural Computation. 17(4):839–858.
Inoue M, Nishimura S, Hori G, Nakahara H, Saito M, Yoshihara Y, Amari S. (2004) Improved
parameter estimation for variance-stabilizing transformation of gene-expression microarray data. Journalof Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. 2(4): 669–679.
Wu S, Amari S, Nakahara H. (2004) Information processing in a neuron ensemble with themultiplicative correlation structure. Neural Networks. 17(2): 205–214.
Nakahara H, Itoh H, Kawagoe R, Takikawa Y, Hikosaka O. (2004) Dopamine neurons can represent
context-dependent prediction error. Neuron. 41(2): 269–280.
Kasai H, Matsuzaki M, Noguchi J, Yasumatsu N, Nakahara H. (2003) Structure-stability-function
relationships of dendritic spines. Trends in Neurosciences. 26(7): 360–368.
Nakahara H, Nishimura S, Inoue M, Hori G, Amari S. (2003) Gene interaction in DNA microarray data
is decomposed by information geometric measure. Bioinformatics. 19(9): 1124–1131.
Itoh H, Nakahara H, Hikosaka O, Kawagoe R, Takikawa Y, Aihara K. (2003) Correlation of primate
caudate neural activity and saccade parameters in reward-oriented behavior. Journal of Neurophysiology.
89(4): 1774–1783.
Amari S, Nakahara H, Wu S, Sakai Y. (2003) Synchronous firing and higher-order interactions in neuron
pool. Neural Computation. 15(1): 127–142.
Nakahara H, Amari S. (2002) Information geometric measure for neural spikes. Neural Computation.
14(10): 2269–2316.
Wu S, Amari S, Nakahara H. (2002a) Asymptotic behaviors of population codes. Neurocomputing. 4446: 697–702.
Wu S, Amari S, Nakahara H. (2002b) Population coding and decoding in a neural field: a computational
study. Neural Computation. 14(5): 999–1026.
Takikawa Y, Kawagoe R, Ito H, Nakahara H, Hikosaka O. (2002) Modulation of saccadic eye
movements by predicted reward outcome. Experimental Brain Research. 142(2): 284–291.
Nakahara H, Amari S, Hikosaka O. (2002) Self-organization in the basal ganglia with modulation ofreinforcement signals. Neural Computation. 14(4): 819–844.
Nakahara H, Amari S. (2002) Attention modulation of neural tuning through peak and base rate incorrelated firing. Neural Networks. 15(1): 41-55.
Hikosaka O, Nakamura K, Sakai K, Nakahara H. (2002) Central mechanisms of motor skill learning.
Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 12(2): 217–222.
Nakahara H, Wu S, Amari S. (2001) Attention modulation of neural tuning through peak and base rate.
Neural Computation. 13(9): 2031–2047.

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Wu S, Nakahara H, Amari S. (2001) Population coding with correlation and an unfaithful model. NeuralComputation. 13(4): 775–797.
Nakahara H, Doya K, Hikosaka O. (2001) Parallel cortico-basal ganglia mechanisms for acquisition andexecution of visuomotor sequences - a computational approach. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.
13(5): 626–647.
Hikosaka O, Nakahara H, Rand MK, Sakai K, Lu X, Nakamura K, Miyachi S, Doya K. (1999) Parallelneural networks for learning sequential procedures. Trends in Neurosciences. 22(10): 464–471.
Nakahara H, Doya K. (1998) Near-saddle-node bifurcation behavior as dynamics in working memory
for goal-directed behavior. Neural Computation. 10(1): 113–132.

BOOK CHAPTERS
Sugiyama M, Tsuda K, Nakahara H.(2018) Transductive Boltzmann Machines. arXiv.org.
arXiv:1805.07938.
Sugiyama M, Nakahara H, Tsuda K.(2018) Legendre Decomposition for Tensors. The 32nd Annual
Conference on Neural Information Processing System NIPS 2018. 8811-8821.
Dayan P, Nakahara H. (2018) Models and Methods for Reinforcement Learning. The Stevens’
Handbook of Experimental Psychology.Volume 5. 507-546.
Sugiyama M, Nakahara H, Tsuda K. (2017) Tensor balancing on statistical manifold. ICML2017 . 32703279.
Bissmarck F, Nakahara H, Doya K, Hikosaka O. (2005) Responding to modalities with different
latencies. In: Saul K, Weiss Y, Bottou L (Ed.), Advances in Neural Information Processing. 17: 169–
176. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Saido T, Nakahara H. (2003) Proteolytic degradation of Aβ by neprilysin and other peptidases. In T
Saido (Ed.), Aβ Metabolism and Alzheimer’s Disease. 61–80. Georgetown, TX: Landes Bioscience.
Nakahara H, Amari S. (2002) Information-geometric decomposition in spike analysis. In TG Dietterich,
S Becker, Z Ghahramani (Eds.), Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems. 14: 253–260.
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Wu S, Nakahara H, Murata N, Amari S. (2000) Population decoding based on an unfaithful model. In
SA Solla, TK Leen, and K Mueller (Eds.), Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems. 12:
192–198. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Hikosaka O, Sakai K, Nakahara H, Lu X, Miyachi K, Nakamura K, Rand MK. (2000) Neuralmechanisms for learning of sequential procedures. In MS Gazzaniga (Ed.), The New Cognitive
Neurosciences. 553–572. Cambridge, UK: MIT Press.
Ikeda S, Amari S, Nakahara H. (1999) Convergence of the wake-sleep algorithm. In MS Kearns, SA
Solla, DA Cohn (Eds.), Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems. 11: 239–245. Cambridge,
MA: MIT Press.
Nakahara H, Doya, K. (1996) Dynamics of attention as near saddle-node bifurcation behavior. In DS
Touretzky, MC Mozer, ME Hasselmo (Eds.), Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems. 8:
38–44. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

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Nakahara H. (2017) Neural Computations Underlying Social Intelligence: Towards Realization of the
Artificial Intelligence. Journal of Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence. No. 32(6): pp.863-872.
Nakahara H. (2016) Neural computations for mind, emotion and social intelligence. Human Mind.
Special issue 2016: 146-150. Tokyo, Japan:Hippon Hyron Sha co., Ltd.
Nakahara H. (2015) Reading others’ minds: pursuit of social brain functions from computational
perspective. Seitai no Kagaku. No. 66(1): 48-52. Tokyo, Japan: The Ichiro Kanehara Foundation for the
Promotion of Medical Sciences and Medical Care.
Nakahara H. (2014) Perspective for neurobiology of others’ minds: computational social neuroscience.
Seitai no Kagaku. No. 65(5): 420-421. Tokyo, Japan: The Ichiro Kanehara Foundation for the Promotionof Medical Sciences and Medical Care.
Nakahara H. (2014) Computational theory of brain function: reinforcement learning and value-based
decision-making. Clinical Neuroscience. No.32(1): 20-24. Tokyo, Japan: CHUGAI-IGAKUSHA.
Nakahara H. (2013) Social decision-making and theoretical neuroscience: prospects for human sciences
and computational psychiatry. Seitai no Kagaku. No.64(4): 322–328. Tokyo, Japan: The Ichiro Kanehara
Foundation for the Promotion of Medical Sciences and Medical Care.
Nakahara H. (2013) Reward structural learning by dopamine activity. Brain & Nerve. No.65(8): 973–
982. Tokyo, Japan: Igaku-Shoin.
Nakahara H. (2011) Love as neural computation: from the perspective of value-based decision making.
Science Journal KAGAKU. 81(1): 58–63. Tokyo, Japan: Iwanami Shoten.
Nakahara H. (2010) Computations and mathematics on neural networks. In S Kanba and T Kato (Eds.),
Brain Science Essentials: for the Biological Understanding of Mental Disease — Lumiere forClinicians on Mental Disease as Medical Specialist vol 16. 303–304. Tokyo, Japan: Nakayama Shoten.
Nakahara H. (2009) Population coding. In H Hironaka et al (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Modern
Mathematical Sciences (2nd Edition). 313–315. Tokyo, Japan: Maruzen Publishing.
Nakahara H. (2009) Decision making and its learning theory (Chapter 5). In S Amari, T Fukai (Eds.),
Computational Theories of the Brain (Brain Science series vol 1). 159–221. Tokyo, Japan: University ofTokyo Press.
Nakahara H. (2008) Computational models of the basal ganglia: reinforcement learning for reward
prediction and acquisition. Japanese Journal of Molecular Psychiatry. 8(4): 307–313. Tokyo, Japan:
Sentan Igaku-sya.
Nakahara H. (2007) Pleasure forms the brain (Chapter 11). In RIKEN BSI (Ed.), Frontiers of
Neuroscience Research (vol 2). 233–297. Tokyo, Japan: Kodansya.
Nakahara H. (2006) Inferring brain networks and gene networks. Brain 21. 9(3): 11–20. Kyoto, Japan:
Kinpodo.
Nakahara H. (2005) Function of neurons and neural networks. In The Japanese Society for Artificial
Intelligence (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence. 153–155. Tokyo, Japan: Kyoritsu Shuppan.

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Nakahara H. (2005) Development and neural plasticity. In The Japanese Society for Artificial
Intelligence (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence. 164–165. Tokyo, Japan: Kyoritsu Shuppan.
Nakahara H. (2005) Computational models of the basal ganglia (Chapter 11). In K Doya, H Gomi,
Sakaguchi, and M Kawato (Eds.), Computational Mechanisms of the Brain. 140–161. Tokyo, Japan:
Asakura Publishing.
Nakahara H. (2005) Dopamine activity for the appetitive system, as reinforcement learning signals. Seitai
no Kagaku. 56(1): 17–25. Tokyo, Japan: IGAKU-SHOIN Ltd.
Nakahara H. (2005) Population coding, spike analysis and information geometry. Mathematical
Sciences. 3(501): 32–38. Tokyo, Japan: Saiensu-sya.
Nakahara H, Hori G, Inoue M, & Nishimura S. (2002) Mathematical neuroscience and its relationship togene data analysis. In S Amari (Ed.), Progress in Neural Information and Mathematical Sciences(Mathematical Sciences separate volume). 133–143. Tokyo, Japan: Saiensu-sya.
Nakahara H, Doya K, Hikosaka O. (2000) Computational theories of cortico-basal ganglia systems.
Brain 21. 3(3): 29–34. Kyoto, Japan: Kinpodo.
Nakahara H, Doya K, Hikosaka O. (2000) Brain global networks for learning motor sequence control.
Brain Science. 22(10): 101–111. Tokyo, Japan: Seiwa Shoten.

INVITED LECTURES /TALKS /SYMPOSIA (Selected)
Date

Location

05/2019NII Shonan Meeting “Language as Goal-Directed Sequential Behavior: Computational
Theories, Brain Mechanisms, Evolutionary Roots,” Kanagawa, Japan.

05/2019

The 6th Research Area Meeting of Scientific Research on Innovative Areas: Artificial
Intelligence and Brain Science, Tokyo, Japan (in Japanese).

11/2018

The 5th Research Area Meeting of Scientific Research on Innovative Areas: Artificial
Intelligence and Brain Science, Osaka, Japan (in Japanese).

10/2018

KAIST Bio-IT Healthcare Initiative II Half-day workshop on brain-inspired AI: Neural
Basis of Intelligence, Daejeon, Korea.

10/2018

18th China-Japan-Korea Joint Workshop on Neurobiology and Neuroinformatics (NBNI
2018), Jeju Island, Korea.

09/2018

Japanese Human Brain Imaging Meeting 2018, Tokyo, Japan (in Japanese).

05/2018

Joint Research Area Meeting of Scientific Research on Innovative Areas: "Adaptive
Circuit Shift" and "Artificial Intelligence and Brain Science", Naha, Japan (in Japanese).

10/2017

The 44th Naito Conference “Sciences of Decision Making: Motivation, Prediction and
Neural plasticity”, Sapporo, Japan.

09/2017

The 11th International Conference on Cognitive Science (ICCS 2017), Taipei, Taiwan.

08/2017

Summer School for Artificial Intelligence and Brain Science, RIKEN BSI, Wako, Japan(in Japanese).

07/2017

AI-Brain Workshop, Shanghai, China.

06/2017

Workshop “Deep Learning: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications”, Berlin, Germany.

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05/2017

The Seventh International Symposium on “Biology of Decision Making” (SBDM),
Bordeaux, France.

05/2017

Gatsby-Kaken Joint Workshop on AI and Neuroscience, London, Britain.

12/2016

Workshop “Arrowhead 10 years on: what have we learned and what is there still to learn
about the neural bases of decision-making?” Sydney, Australia.

11/2016

Kyoto University, Graduate School of Medicine and Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan (inJapanese).

06/2016

Workshop “Modeling Neural Activity: Statistics, Dynamical Systems, and Networks(MONA-2)”, Hawaii, USA.

11/2015

University of Oxford, Department of Experimental Psychology, Oxford, UK.

11/2015

University College London, Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry andAgeing Research, London, UK.

10/2015SAMSI-Boston Univerisity Workshop “Challenges in Linking Statistical andMathematical Neuroscience 2015”, Boston, USA.

07/2015

Meeting by a chapter of the System and Information division, the Society of Instrument
and Control Engineers (SICE), Tokyo, Japan (in Japanese).

05/2015

Kyoto University, Graduate School of Medicine and Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan (inJapanese).

12/2014The Joint Symposium by “Prediction and Decision Making” & “The Science of the Mental
Time,” Grant-in Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas, Tokyo, Japan (inJapanese).

11/2014

Autumn School for Computational Neuroscience (ASCONE2014), Nagano, Japan (inJapanese).

09/2014

Workshop “One, two, and many brains”, Lisbon, Portugal.

07/2014OIST Computational Neuroscience Course (OCNC2014), Okinawa, Japan.

05/2014NII Shonan Meeting “Deep Learning: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications,” Kanagawa,Japan.

05/2014National Yang-Ming University, Institute of Neuroscience, Taipei, Taiwan.

04/2014National Taiwan University, Department of Economics, Taipei, Taiwan.

01/2014Winter workshop “Mechanisms of Brain and Mind,” Hokkaido, Japan.

10/2013International Symposium “Prediction and Decision Making, ” Kyoto, Japan.

06/2013

Workshop “Modeling Neural Activity: Statistics, Dynamical Systems, and Networks,”
Hawaii, USA.

06/2013

Tokyo Study Meeting on Clinical Brain Imaging, Tokyo, Japan.

05/2013

The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Economics, Tokyo, Japan.

04/2013

BSI Brain Science Training Program, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Wako, Japan.

03/2013

Workshop “Reward and Decision Making on Risk and Aversion” (in conjunction with
Joint Tamagawa-Caltech Lecture Course 2013), Hawaii, USA.

02/2013

Memorial Symposium for Dr. Shun-ichi Amari as a Person of Cultural Merit at the
University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.

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01/2013

The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Arts and Science, Tokyo, Japan.

11/2012

California Institute of Technology, Division of Humanities & Social Sciences, Pasadena,
USA.

11/2012

Stanford University, Department of Psychology, San Francisco, USA.

11/2012

Kyoto University, Department of Systems Science, Graduate School of Informatics,
Integrated Systems Biology, Kyoto, Japan.

09/2012

Symposium “Functional architecture of collective neural activities and their networks: newadvances in experimental and theoretical approaches,” Japanese Neuroscience Society
Meeting (Neuro2012), Nagoya, Japan.

11/2011

Columbia University, Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, New York, USA.

11/2011

New York University, Center for Neural Science, New York, USA.

04/2011

University of Oxford, Department of Experimental Psychology, Oxford, UK.

04/2011

University College London, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, London, UK.

04/2011

University College London, Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging (Emotion Club
Seminar), London, UK.

04/2011

Workshop on Geometric and Algebraic Statistics 3, University of Warwick, Coventry,
UK.

11/2010

California Institute of Technology, Division of Biology (Shimojo Psychophysics
Laboratory Seminar), Pasadena, USA.

10/201010th China-India-Japan-Korea Joint Workshop on Neurobiology and Neuroinformatics(NBNI 2010), Kunming, China.

09/2010

Symposium “New perspectives on value-based decision making,” Japanese Neuroscience
Society Meeting (Neuro2010), Kobe, Japan.

08/2010

Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Berlin, Germany.

08/2010

Information Geometry and Its Applications III, Leipzig, Germany.

02/2010

Reward and Decision Making Batsheva Conference, Jerusalem, Israel.

05/2009

Waseda University, Institute for Research in Contemporary Political and Economic Affairs(Waseda Monday Seminar), Tokyo, Japan (in Japanese).

02/2009

Neuro Social Science Workshop, Osaka, Japan.

12/2008EPSRC Workshop on Computational Neuroscience, University of Warwick, Birmingham,UK.

12/2008

RIKEN BSI Tutorial Series 2008, RIKEN BSI, Wako, Japan.

10/2008

Open Problems in Neuroscience of Decision Making, OIST Seaside House, Okinawa,
Japan.

09/2008

Human Forum 2008, Honda Research Institute, Wako, Japan (in Japanese).

07/2008

The 3rd APCTP-KAIST Summer School for Brain Dynamics, Korea Advanced Instituteof Science and Technology, Daejeon, South Korea.

01/2008

HFSP International Workshop on Neural Control of Attention, Perception, and Learning,
OIST, Okinawa, Japan.

01/2008

University College London, Gatsby Computation Neuroscience Unit, London, UK.

01/2008

Paris College de France, Institut des Science Cognitives, Paris, France.

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The 2nd Japanese-French Frontiers of Science Symposium, Station Biologique, Roscoff,France.

01/2008

RIKEN BSI Tutorial Series 2007, RIKEN BSI, Wako, Japan.

11/2007

RIKEN BSI-MIT Picower Workshop 2007 (talk shared with Dr. N. Fujii), RIKEN BSI,
Wako, Japan.

10/2007

Preparation Meeting for Japanese-French Frontiers of Science Symposium, Tokyo, Japan.

10/2007

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Department of Bio and Brain
Engineering, Daejeon, Korea.

10/2007

NIPS Workshop on Neural Mechanisms for Attention and Decision Making, National
Institute for Physiological Sciences, Okazaki, Japan (in Japanese).

07/2007

International Conference Stochastic Processes and Applications (ICSPA 2007), Indian
Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.

07/2007

Workshop on Mathematical Aspects of Neuroscience, Indian Institute of Science,
Bangalore, India (two talks).

06/2007

The 3rd Technical Committee on Brain Communication, Tokyo, Japan (in Japanese).

04/2007

21st Century COE Program Center for Evolutionary Cognitive Sciences, The University ofTokyo, Tokyo, Japan (in Japanese).

03/2007

Spring School in Computational Neuroscience, Shanghai, China.

12/2006

NIPS Workshop on Neural Mechanisms with Cerebral Cortical Units, National Institutefor Physiological Sciences, Okazaki, Japan (in Japanese).

11/2006

RIKEN BSI Tutorial Series 2006, RIKEN BSI, Wako, Japan.

11/2006

The 5th Study Meeting for “Neural mechanisms and computational processes for humanmotor control and language acquisition,” Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan (in Japanese).

08/2006

RIKEN BSI International Summer School, RIKEN BSI, Wako, Japan.

07/2006

2006 “Wings of Mathematical Science” Workshop, Tokyo, Japan (in Japanese).

05/2006

RIKEN Joint Retreat, Shizuoka, Japan.

11/2004

Special Session, International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and its Applications,
Fukuoka, Japan.

09/2004

The US-Japan Brain Research Collaborative Program Workshop on Bioinformatic
Analysis of Brain Function, Hawaii, USA.

09/2004

Symposium “Neural correlates of action selection based on reward and goal,” Japanese
Neuroscience Society Meeting (Neuro2004), Osaka, Japan.

05/2004

Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute (ATR), Computational Neuroscience
Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan.

04/2004

Honda Research Institute, Wako, Japan.

03/2004

The 31st NIPS International Symposium “Multidisciplinary Approaches to Sensorimotor
Integration —Old Questions Meet New Concepts—,” NIPS, Okazaki, Japan.

08/2003

The 4th Summer Workshop for the Mechanism of the Brain and Mind, Echigoyuzawa,
Japan (in Japanese).

02/2003

University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Medicine, Japan (in Japanese).

12/2002

National Cancer Institute (NIH), Laboratory of Population Genetics, Bethesda, USA.

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National Eye Institute (NIH), Laboratory of Sensorimotor Research, Bethesda, USA.

11/2002

Johns Hopkins University, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Baltimore, USA.

09/2002

The 7th Tamagawa Dynamic Brain Forum, Visegrad, Hungary.

09/2002

University of Freiburg, Department of Neurobiology and Biophysics, Freiburg, Germany.

09/2002

Technical University of Berlin, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science, Berlin, Germany.

09/2002

Fraunhofer FIRST, The Intelligent Data Analysis Group, Berlin, Germany.

12/2001

Public Symposium on the Basal Ganglia and Cortical Areas for Motor Control, Tokyo,
Japan (in Japanese).

09/2001

The 6th Tamagawa Dynamic Brain Forum, Breisach, Germany.

06/2001

NIPS Workshop on Visual and Perceptual Mechanisms, National Institute forPhysiological Sciences, Okazaki, Japan (in Japanese).

01/2001

NIPS Workshop on Information Synthesis in the Brain for Motor Control, National
Institute for Physiological Sciences, Okazaki, Japan (in Japanese).

08/2000

Neuroinformatics Summer School, Kanagawa, Japan (in Japanese).

10/1999

MIT, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Boston, USA.

09/1999

Satellite Symposium on Brain Sciences at the Biophysical Society of Japan Meeting,Wako, Japan (in Japanese).

06/1999

RIKEN BMC Forum, Nagoya, Japan (in Japanese).

08/1998

The 3rd Summer Workshop on System-Level Understandings of Higher-Order Brain
Functions, Fujiyoshida, Japan (in Japanese).

02/1998

Workshop on “Present Homeostasis Approaches,” University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan (inJapanese).

04/1997

ATR, Human Information Processing Research Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan.

PATENTS
Kim CH, Tsujino H, Nakahara H. [inventor] (2010) Learning control system and learning control
method. Series Code: 12，Serial No. 792853 (United States Patent; Application No. 20100318480. Fileddate, 2010.6.3)
Kim, CH, Tsujino, H, Nakahara, H. [inventor] (2009) Learning control system and learning control
method. Patent No. 5405252 (Japan Patent; Application No. 2009-217454; Application date, 2009.9.18;
Registration date, 2013.11.8).
Kim, CH, Tsujino, H., Nakahara, H. [inventor] (2009) Learning control system and learning control
method. Patent No. 5346701 (Japan Patent; Application No. 2009-141680; Application date, 2009.6.12;
Registration date, 2013.8.23).
Hori G, Nakahara H, Inoue M, Nishimura S. [inventor] (2001) Chemical substance classification apparatus,
chemical substance classification method, and program. Patent No. 381761 (Japan Patent; Application No.
2001-339396; Application date, 2001.11.5; Registration date, 2006.6.16).

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