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Dr Kazutaka Takahashi

Taka is a Visting Researcher of the Laboratory of Cognitive and Translational Neuroscience at Newcastle University. He obtained his PhD in estimation and control from MIT and took postdoc training in computational neuroscience and motor control under the mentorship of Dr Nicholas Hatsopoulos at the University of Chicago. 

He has more than +20 years of experience in sensorimotor neurophysiology and computational neuroscience both in academia and industry and uses a variety of neuroscience approaches combined with electrophysiology, MRI, and computational modelling to conduct research in spatiotemporal dynamics of neural activities, sensorimotor neurophysiology, neural adaptations, and brain machine interfaces and to develop data analysis workflow for high density electrode data and multimodal behavioral data.  

SCIENTIFIC FOCUS 

  • Neurophysiology of sensorimotor behaviors.  
  • Spatiotemporal dynamics of neural activities.  
  • Complex behavior analysis.  
  • Development of workflow for high channel electrode signals and behavior data.  
  • Brain machine interface.  

RESEARCH EXPERIENCES 

  • 2023 - Senior Research Analyst, Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Science, College of Health Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA 
  • 2023 - CEO/CSO and a co-founder of Ruten Inc, USA.  
  • 2023 - Visiting Researcher, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.  
  • 2022-2023 Senior Data Scientist and Neurophysiologist, Precision Neuroscience, New York, NY, USA 
  • 2020-2022 Senior Staff Scientist, Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.  
  • 2018-2020 Computational Scientist, Research Computing Center, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.  
  • 2018-2020 Consultant, NeuroNexus, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.  
  • 2013-2018 Research Associate/Research Assistant Professor, Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.  
  • 2006-2013 Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.  
 

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