Established March 2020!! We are interested in how the brain perceives and interprets sensory inputs to perform behavior. How does the prior knowledge affect sensory perception? Our lab identifies the neuronal processes of decision making and compares the functions with machine learning algorithms. 

Positions available for Graduate students and Postdocs

We are looking for Graduate Students who are interested in following topics:  

• Neural mechanism of perceptual and value-based decision making

• Understand the brain through experiments (imaging, optogenetics, behavioral task, e-phys) and/or computations (deep learning,  Bayesian inference, reinforcement learning)

• Combine the experimental and computational approach

• Compare the mechanism of brain and artificial intelligence (AI) 

Our lab is taking students through Department of Life Science, the University of Tokyo. Please go to the website and receive the information about entrance exam. Contact us anytime for lab visit, Zoom discussion, questions and discussions. 

We are also looking for postdocs and JSPS research fellows for next year. Please email us anytime. 

Email:  funamizu [at] iqb.u-tokyo.ac.jp

News & Topics

2025.4 Kazuaki Mori (Researcher) joined.

2025.3 First Ph.D. Course Graduate from our lab Dr. Wang Shuo! and Master Course Graduate Hayato Maeda! Congratulation!!

2025.3 Review (first and corresponding author: Kouta Yamada) is published in Journal of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (Vol.40, 2025, in Japanese)

2025.3 Review (first and corresponding author: Shun Araki) is publised in Journal of Japan Neural Network Society (Vol.32, No.1, 2025, in Japanese)

2024.10 Preprint (first author: Yutaro Ueoka) is open in bioRxiv (https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.10.15.618576)

2024.10 Our paper (first author: Shuo Wang) is published in Iscience (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2024.111182)

2024.10 Yuki Yoneyama (D1) is selected for BOOST NAIS

2024.5 Our paper (first author: Kotaro Ishizu) is published in Nature Communications (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-48338-6).

2024.5 Huayi Gao and Yuki Yoneyama joined as a Technician.

2024.4 Myung Chung (Research Associate), Shun Araki (Researcher), and Tomoya Taenaka (M1) joined 

2024.3 Graduation of Kotaro Ishizu and Ines Ribeiro.

2024. 2 Preprint (first author: Shuo Wang) is open in bioRxiv (https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.02.08.579559v1)

2023. 11 Our students' first international conference. 1 oral and 2 posters @ Society for Neuroscience (SfN).

2023. 10 Research of Funamizu (done in Zador lab, CSHL) is in Current Biology (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2023.09.031).

2023. 9 Yutaro Ueoka (Research Associate) received a Conference Encouragement Award @ JNNS2023.

2023. 4  Kouta Yamada (Researcher) and Hayato Maeda (M1) joined