Graduate School of Informatics, Department of Informatics Associate Professor
Hideaki Shimazaki is an associate professor at the Graduate School of Informatics in Kyoto University in Japan. Before that, he took joint positions in industry and academia as a senior scientist at Honda Research Institute Japan Co., Ltd. and a specially-appointed associate professor at the Center for Human Nature, Artificial Intelligence, and Neuroscience (CHAIN) of Hokkaido University . His research focuses on uncovering the intelligence of organisms and machines using physics, statistics, and machine learning methods, emphasizing data analysis on spiking neural activities. He received M.A. in neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University in 2003 and Ph.D. in physics at Kyoto University in 2007. After his Ph.D., he pursued postdoctoral training in computational neuroscience at RIKEN Brain Science Institute and MIT Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences.