LAB HEAD　Hiroyuki Nakahara

■PROFILE

Hiroyuki Nakahara grew up in the greater Tokyo area and attended both middle and high school in central Tokyo, thriving in the culturally stimulating atmosphere. Hiro attended the University of Tokyo for both undergraduate and graduate studies. As an undergraduate, he was among a group of students at several universities who began to play lacrosse in Japan, enjoying the excitement of initiating a new sport trend. As a graduate, Hiro received his doctorate in 1997 studying sequential decision-making in biological systems, while also including a term as a visiting graduate student at the University of California, San Diego. He then joined Shun-ichi Amari’s laboratory at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute, later in 2006, founding his own lab, the Laboratory for Integrated Theoretical Neuroscience at RIKEN Brain Science institute and since 2018, at RIKEN Center for Brain Science.

Laboratory for Integrated Theoretical Neuroscience
RIKEN Center for Brain Science
2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198 JAPAN
E-mail: itninfo(at)ml.riken.jp

Note for personal communication: my email, hiro [at] brain.riken.jp is terminated due to a change of our webmail server. For our personal communication, please send me email, at hiroyuki.nakahara [at] riken.jp.

[Education]

1997　　Ph.D. Department of Multidisciplinary Studies, University of Tokyo
1992　　M. S. Department of Multidisciplinary Studies, University of Tokyo
1990　　B. A. Department of Natural and Artificial Systems, University of Tokyo

[Research Experience]

• 04/2018 – present
  Team Leader
  RIKEN Center for Brain Science, Laboratory for Integrated Theoretical Neuroscience
• 04/2014 – 03/2018
  Senior Team Leader
  RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Laboratory for Integrated Theoretical Neuroscience
• 01/2006 – 03/2014
  Team Leader
  RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Laboratory for Integrated Theoretical Neuroscience
• 04/2005 – 12/2005
  Staff Scientist
  RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Laboratory for Mathematical Neuroscience
• 04/2000 – 03/2005
  Research Scientist
  RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Laboratory for Mathematical Neuroscience
• 04/1997 – 03/2000
  Special Postdoctoral Researcher
  RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Laboratory for Information Synthesis
• 12/1993 – 04/1996
  Visiting Graduate
  University of California, San Diego, Department of Cognitive Science

[Teaching Experience]

• 06/2015 – present
  Adjunct Professor
  Kyoto University, Graduate School of Informatics, Department of Intelligence Science and Technology
• 04/2013 – 03/2015
  Visiting Lecturer
  Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Science
• 10/2007 – 03/2012
  Adjunct Professor
  Tokyo Institute of Technology, Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Department of Computational Intelligence and Systems Science
• 10/2000 – 03/2003
  Visiting Associate Professor
  Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Department of Knowledge System Science, School of Knowledge Science
• 04/1998 – 03/2001
  Visiting Lecturer
  Meiji University, Graduate School of Science and Technology

[Awarad and Fellowships(Selected)]

• 2004
  Young Investigator Award
  Japan Neuroscience Society
• 1997 – 2000
  Special Postdoctoral Fellowship
  RIKEN
• 1996 – 1997
  JSPS Research Fellowship
  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science for Young Scientists
• 1994 – 1995
  Rotary International Ambassadorial Scholarship
  Rotary One Foundation
• 1993 – 1994
  Study-Abroad Fellowship
  University of Tokyo