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Dai Akita (秋田 大)

Education and Work Experience

   
2012/3 Bachelor of Engineering (School of Engineering, Osaka University)
2014/3 Master of Engineering (Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University)
2017/3 Doctor of Life Science (Graduate School of Life Science, Hokkaido University)
Doctoral thesis: Study on biological transport network utilizing plasmodium of Physarum polycephalum
2017/4 ~ 2022/9 Mizuho-DL Financial Technology Co., LTD
(mainly engaged in consulting services for pension funds as a senior financial engineer)
2022/10 ~ 2023/3 Project Researcher (特任研究員), Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo
2023/4 ~ Assistant Professor (助教), Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo

Publication

  1. D. Akita, E. Suwa, N. Ikeda, and H. Takahashi, Neural Activity and Information Processing Capacity of Neuronal Culture, the 45th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2023, T6-O1.Th_1330 654, Sydney, Australia.
  2. N. Ikeda, D. Akita, and H. Takahashi, Noise and spike-time-dependent plasticity drive self-organized criticality in spiking neural network: Toward neuromorphic computing, Applied Physics Letters, 2023, Vol. 123(2), p. 23701
  3. N. Ishida, T. I. Shiramatsu, T. Kubota, D. Akita, and H. Takahashi, Quantification of information processing capacity in living brain as physical reservoir, Applied Physics Letters, 2023, Vol. 122(23), p. 233702
  4. D. Akita, D. Schenz, S. Kuroda, K. Sato, K.-i. Ueda, and T. Nakagaki, Current reinforcement model reproduces center-in-center vein trajectory of Physarum polycephalum, Development, Growth & Differentiation, Wiley Online Library, 2017, Vol. 59(5), pp. 465-470
  5. M. D. Fricker, D. Akita, L. L. Heaton, N. Jones, B. Obara, and T. Nakagaki, Automated analysis of Physarum network structure and dynamics, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, IOP Publishing, 2017, Vol. 50(25), pp. 254005
  6. I. Kunita, K.-i. Ueda, D. Akita, S. Kuroda, and T. Nakagaki, Behavioural differentiation induced by environmental variation when crossing a toxic zone in an amoeba, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, IOP Publishing, 2017, Vol. 50(35), pp. 354002
  7. D. Akita, Multiplication and convolution of distributions for signal processing theory, Digital signal processing, Elsevier, 2016, Vol. 56, pp. 1-14
  8. D. Akita, I. Kunita, M. D. Fricker, S. Kuroda, K. Sato, and T. Nakagaki, Experimental models for Murray’s law, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, IOP Publishing, 2016, Vol. 50(2), pp. 024001
  9. S. Kameda, Y. Hayashida, H. Tanaka, D. Akita, A. Iwata, and T. Yagi, A Multi-Channel Current Stimulator Chip Intended for a Visual Cortical Implant, Transactions of Japanese Society for Medical and Biological Engineering, Japanese Society for Medical and Biological Engineering, 2013, Vol. 51(Supplement), pp. R-140
  10. S. Kameda, Y. Hayashida, Y. Tanaka, D. Akita, and T. Yagi, A multichannel current stimulator chip for spatiotemporal pattern stimulation of neural tissues, 2014 36th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2014, pp. 5011-5015

Preprint

  1. D. Akita and D. T. Schenz, A simple counting rule to evaluate directionality of arbitrary rail networks, arXiv:2308.10044, 2024

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