Associate Professor
The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences,
Department of General Systems Studies
3-8-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 153−0041, Japan
Komaba I Campus, Building 16-227B
E-mail: c-oizumi atmark g.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Last updated: Mar 26, 2022
Japanese
Selected Publications
Genji Kawakita, Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston, Naotsugu Tsuchiya, Masafumi Oizumi (2023)
Is my "red" your "red"?: Unsupervised alignment of qualia structures via optimal transport.
PsyArXiv.
Shunsuke Kamiya, Genji Kawakita, Shuntaro Sasai, Jun Kitazono, Masafumi Oizumi (2023)
Optimal Control Costs of Brain State Transitions in Linear Stochastic Systems.
Journal of Neuroscience, 43 (2), 270-281.
press release (in English), press release (in Japanese)
Jun Kitazono, Yuma Aoki, Masafumi Oizumi (2022)
Bidirectionally connected cores in a mouse connectome: Towards extracting the brain subnetworks essential for consciousness.
Cerebral Cortex, in press.
Genji Kawakita, Shunsuke Kamiya, Shuntaro Sasai, Jun Kitazono, Masafumi Oizumi (2022)
Quantifying brain state transition cost via Schrödinger's bridge.
Network Neuroscience, 6 (1), 118–134.
Jun Kitazono, Ryota Kanai, Masafumi Oizumi (2020)
Efficient search for informational cores in complex systems: Application to brain networks.
Neural Networks, 132, 232-244.
Masafumi Oizumi, Naotsugu Tsuchiya, Shun-ichi Amari (2016)
Unified Framework for Information Integration Based on Information Geometry
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113(51), 14817-14822.
press release (in Japanese), blog (in English)
Masafumi Oizumi, Shun-ichi Amari, Toru Yanagawa, Naotaka Fujii, Naotsugu Tsuchiya (2016)
Measuring Integrated Information from the Decoding Perspective
PLoS Comput Biol, 12(1), e1004654.
Masafumi Oizumi#, Larissa Albantakis#, Giulio Tononi (2014)
From the Phenomenology to the Mechanisms of Consciousness: Integrated Information Theory 3.0.
PLoS Computational Biology, 10, e1003588. #Equal contribution
Masafumi Oizumi, Toshiyuki Ishii, Kazuya Ishibashi, Toshihiko Hosoya, Masato Okada (2010)
Mismatched decoding in the brain.
The Journal of Neuroscience, 30, 4815-4826.
*Featured in This Week In The Journal.
Education
2001-2005 B.S. Department of Physics, The University of Tokyo
2005-2007 M.S. Department of Complexity Science and Engineering, The University of Tokyo (Advisor: Prof. Masato Okada)
2007-2010 Ph.D. Department of Complexity Science and Engineering, The University of Tokyo (Advisor: Prof Masato Okada)
Work History
Apr, 2019 - Present, Associate Professor
The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department of General Systems Studies
Mar, 2017 - present, Visiting Researcher
RIKEN, Center for Brain Science, Laboratory for Haptic Perception and Cognitive Physiology
Mar, 2017 - Mar, 2019, Manager
Araya Inc., Basic Research Group.
Sep, 2014 - Dec, 2014 & Apr, 2015 - Oct 2016, Visiting Researcher
Monash University, Monash Biomedical Imaging, A/Prof Naotsugu Tsuchiya's Lab.
Apr, 2014 - Feb, 2017, RIKEN Special Postdoctoral Researcher
RIKEN, Brain Science Institute, Prof Shun-ichi Amari's Lab.
Oct, 2011 - Oct, 2013, Visiting Researcher
University of Wisconsin - Madison, Prof Giulio Tononi's Lab.
Apr, 2011 - Mar, 2014, JSPS Superlative Postdoctoral Fellow (SPD)
RIKEN, Brain Science Institute, Prof Shun-ichi Amari's Lab.
Oct, 2010 - Mar, 2011, JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow (PD)
RIKEN, Brain Science Institute, Prof Shun-ichi Amari's Lab.
Grants
2020-2023: Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (B), The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan (MEXT)
2018-2024: CREST, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)
2018-2022: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan (MEXT)
2014-2017: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B), The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan (MEXT)
Fellowships
2014-2017: RIKEN, Special Postdoctoral Researcher
2011-2014: The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Research Fellow SPD
2008-2011: The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Research Fellow DC1
Awards
Asican Pacific Neural Network Assembly Young Researcher Award 2012
Dean Prize, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences (Doctor Course) 2010
Japanese Neural Network Society Research Award 2008
Dean Prize, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences (Master Course) 2007
IEEE CIS Japan Chapter Young Researcher Award 2007
Japanese Neural Network Society Young Researcher Award 2006
Misc.
Essay about Prof. Giulio Tononi (in Japanese), Clinical Neuroscience, 34(3), 372, 2016. pdf
Kanai-Tsuchiya Radio #2, ASSC in San Diego, July, 2013 (in Japanese)
Kanai-Tsuchiya Radio #1, SfN in New Orleans, Oct, 2012 (in Japanese)
Report about the lecture by Dr Masataka Watanabe in ASCONE 2010 (in Japanese). On neural mechanisms of consciousness. pdf