Members

STAFF

  • Masayuki Hirata　Specially Appointed Professor
  • Board Certification : Board Certificated Neurosurgeon and Training Physician of the Japan Neurosurgical Society, Board Certificated Clinical Epileptologist and Training Physician of the Japan epilepsy society, Board Certificated Clinical Neurophysiologist of Japanese Society of Clinical Neurophysiology (EEG, EMG), Board Certificated Neuroendovascular Surgeon of the Japanese Society for Neuroendovascular Therapy
  • Clinical Specialty : Epilepsy Surgery, Functional Neurosurgery, Functional Brain Mapping
  • Research Area : Brain Machine Interface，Functional Brain Analysis
  • Interest : Saltwater Lure Fishing

  • Goichi Beck　Specially Appointed Associate Professor
  • Board Certification : Fellow of the Japanese Society of Internal Medicine, Board Certificated Neurologist of the Japanese Society of Neurology, Board Certificated Clinical Neurophysiologist of the Japanese Society of Clinical Neurophysiology (EEG, EMG), Board Certificated Neuropathologist of the Japanese Society of Neuropathology
  • Clinical Specialty : Neurology, Neuropathology
  • Research Area : Neuromuscular disorders, Neuropathology
  • Interest : Travelling

  • Benjamin Fortune　Invited Researcher,
    JSPS Specially Appointed Researcher
  • Research Area : Bioelectrical sensing, Bioelectrical impedance, Bioelectrical stimulation
  • Interest : Mountain biking, Hiking

  • Miyako Asai　Specially Appointed Researcher
  • Research Area : Software Engineering, Signal Processing
  • Interest : Watching movies, Bakery hopping

  • Yan Tianfang　Specially Appointed Researcher
  • Clinical Specialty : Neurosurgery
  • Research Area : Brain Machine Interface
  • Interest : Tour, Movie, Museum

  • Hiroaki Hashimoto 　Invited Faculty,
    Research Staff, Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General, Visiting Lecturer, Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School., Overseas Research Fellowship, Japan Society for the Promotion
  • Board Certification :Board Certified Neurosurgeon and Training Physician of the Japan Neurosurgical Society, Board Certified Clinical Epileptologist of the Japan Epilepsy Society, Board Certified Clinical Neurophysiologist (EEG section) of the Japanese Society of Clinical Neurophysiology (JSCN), Board Certified Clinical Neurophysiologist (intraoperative neuromonitoring section) of JSCN, Technical Board Certified Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgeon of the Japan Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, Board Certified Physician of the Japan Stroke Society, Board Certified Neurosurgeon of the Japanese Society for Neuroendovascular Therapy
  • Clinical Specialty :  Functional neurosurgery　      【 ORCiD 】
  • Research Area : Orofacial neural function, Epilepsy, Deep brain stimulation
  • Interest : Drive, Reading

  • Hitoshi Maezawa 　Specially Appointed Researcher
  • Research Area : “Meal” Neurosciences, Functional Brain Analysis, Neuromodulation, the Brain Machine Interface

  • Takuma Nakamura　Specially Appointed Researcher
  • Board Certification : Board-certified neurologist of the Japanese Society of Neurology
  • Clinical Specialty : Neurology
  • Research Area : Brain Machine Interface
  • Interest : baseball

  • Ryoji Hirano 　Contract Researcher
  • Resarch Area : Software Engineering, Image Processing, Machine Learning
  • Interest : Camera, Walking

  • Kazuya Niyagawa　Contract Researcher
  • Resarch Area : Software Engineering, Image Processing
  • Interest : Game

 

STUDENTS

  • Takuto Emura　Graduate Student (D4)
  • Board Certification : Neurosurgery
  • Clinical Specialty : Neurosurgery
  • Research Area : Brain Machine Interface
  • Interest : Table tennis,ski,baseball

  • Kim Namheon　Graduate Student (D4)
  • Research Area : Brain Machine Interface
  • Interest : Igo

  • Takeru Kuratomi　Graduate Student (D2)
  • Research Area : Brain Machine Interface, Robotics
  • Interest : Reading, Electronics, Exercise, Art

  • Misa Taguchi　Graduate Student (D2)
  • Research Area : Brain Machine Interface
  • Interest : MATLAB, K-Dramas

  • Shohei Yoshida　Graduate Student (M2)
  • Research Area : Brain Machine Interface
  • Interest : Music, Skiing

  • Liu Lingjun　Research Student
  • Research Area : Brain Machine Interface, Neuromodulation
  • Interest : Reading, Movie, Game

  • Kenta Okuda　Medical Student (Specially Appointed Researcher)
  • Research Area : Signal Processing, Machine Learning, Robotics
  • Interest : Trekking, Fishing

  • Itsuki Shinohara　Student (B4)
  • Research Area : Biophysical Engineering
  • Interest : Skiing, Piano

 

Research Assistants

Keiko Kawamura

Kyoko Koezuka

Kaho Isshiki

Harumi Takamura

 

Researchers who were enrolled

Masayuki Nakamori
Appointed as a Professor of the Graduate School of Medicine, Yamaguchi University in January 2023

Seiji Kameda
Appointed as CTO of JiMED Co., Ltd. in April 2020

Noriaki Hattori
Appointed as a Specially Appointed Professor, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Toyama in January 2020

Masato Inoue
Appointed as an Associate Professor, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University in April 2019

Abdelkader Nasreddine Belkacem
Appointed as an Assistant Professor at UA in January 2019

Hiroki Hamanaka
Appointed as a Researcher of National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) in July 2019

 

Graduated graduate students

He Xin
Appointed as a postdoctoral fellow in Osaka University Neurosurgery in April 2020
Hiroaki Hashimoto
Invited Researcher in April 2020

 

Researchers (short stay)

Chen Chao
Invited Researcher Until March 2019, Associate Professor at Tianjin University of Technology in China

Reinmar Kobler
Invited Researcher Until December 2018, Graz University of Technology in Austria

 

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