Lab Retreat 2025: Human-Centric Systems

Date: August 3 (Sun) - 5 (Tue), 2025

Venue: Toyama Prefectural University, Imizu City, Toyama; Himinohana, Himi City, Toyama

Purpose: Share our knowledge and exchange our ideas within/outside of our laboratories.

Organizers: Mathematical Informatics Lab @ NAIST-IS, Data-Driven Biology Lab @ NAIST-BS, Masuta Lab @ Toyama Prefectural U

Sponsors: JST-Moonshot, JSPS-KAKENHI, K-SAC

Summary: 

Some give a tutorial lecture on a topic related to his/her research.

Each of the other attendees gives a lecture presentation on his/her own research.

If you are assigned to one of the poster sessions, please prepare your poster in B1 size.  

Every student is required to submit a report on your/others' presentation to the supervisor after the lab retreat.

Travel Information:

A chartered bus

Time Table:

[Aug 3]

7:00 departure at Kita-Ikoma sta (via NAIST at 7:10 and Takanohara sta at 7:30)

14:30 arrival at Toyama PU

14:50 opening (Kazushi Ikeda @ MI)

15:00-16:20 oral session 1 (30 min x 2, 20 min x 1) @ Conference Room (TPU)

• Prof Hiroyuki Masuta @ TPU: Robot system integration for symbiosis with humans

• Assoc Prof Shigeyuki Ikeda @ Univ Toyama: My research overview: fNIRS hyperscanning and resting-state fMRI approaches

• Junior Assoc Prof Kaori Nishimura, Junior Assoc Prof Kenta Matsumoto, Prof Kazuhide Kamiya, Prof Hiromi Matsui @ TPU: Development of a delivery simulator to enable midwives to learn safe assisted delivery techniques

16:30-17:00 flash talks for poster session 1 (1 min/each) @ Conference Room (TPU)

17:00-18:00 TPU->Himinohana

18:00-19:30 dinner @ Himinohana

19:30-22:00 poster session 1 @ Poster Room (Himinohana)

• Dayta Dominic Bagus @ MI: You only accept samples once

• Mohiuddin Saifullah @ D2B: 3DD: A robust three-stage de-duplication and augmentation-aware framework for redundancy-resilient mri datasets

• Igor Zavialov @ MI: Stability analysis of a financial system

• Kotaro Morimoto @ D2B: In silico modeling of an artificial quorum sensing circuit to identify nutrients that enhance AHL production

• Brian Godwin Lim @ MI: Kolmogorov–Arnold message-passing for differentiable causal discovery

• Yassin Terki @ D2B: Estimation of an estrus cycle

• Kotaro Hironaka @ MI: Analysis of local field potentials in the dorsal premotor cortex of monkeys during a shape manipulation task: comparison with the lateral prefrontal cortex

• Minato Uemura @ MI: Conceptual Space with mMLDA

• Sara Koiso @ MI: Machine learning for identification of fasciculation from muscle

• Ryunosuke Abe @ MI: Latent structures in language representations

• Yufei Wu @ D2B: Identify key gene modules and infer gene regulatory networks of diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphomas（DLBC) using machine learning

• Shota Miyagawa @ MI: Acquisition and analysis of bowel sounds for defecation prediction

• Elavarasan Nandhini @ MI: Entry and exit detection in parking lots

• Natsuna Ishida @ D2B: Detection of anomalies in canine EEG signals using CEBRA

• Haruna Tagawa @ D2B: Mathematical modeling and analysis to elucidate the migration mechanism of glioblastoma cells

• TatsuroYamaguchi @ D2B: Stepwise Bayesian machine learning uncovers a novel gene regulatory network component in neural tube development

• Hiromu Saito @ TPU: The Effect of Different Approaching Patterns on Pedestrians' Perception of a Vehicle's Yielding Intention

• Yusei Horie @ TPU: Evaluating the Impact of Autonomous Distributed Robot Behavior on Participants to Support Group Work

• Naoya Miyamoto @ TPU: Self-Localization of Multi-Copter Using Freely Placed Ultra-Wide Band Devices in Indoor Environments

• Takumi Nakagawa @ TPU: Development of Bare Bones Trash Robot Aimed at Collaborating with Intelligent Space System

• Rinto Masuyama @ TPU: Development of IoT Devices for Intelligent Space System

[Aug 4]

7:00-8:30 breakfast

8:30-9:30 Himinohana->TPU

9:40-10:20 keynote session (40 min) @ Conference Room (TPU)

• Prof Tsukasa Ogasawara (President of TPU)

10:20-11:05 oral session 1 (15 min x 3) @ Conference Room (TPU)

• Prof Kazushi Ikeda @ MI: Sports analytics in MI lab

• Prof Yuichi Sakumura @ D2B: Excitable system in somite formation

• Prof Junichiro Yoshimoto @ FHU: Multidisciplinary alliance for translational research in neuropsychiatry at Fujita Health University

11:10-11:40 flash talks for poster session 2 (1 min/each) @ Conference Room (TPU)

11:40-12:30 TPU->Himi city

12:30-17:00 lunch & free discussion

18:00-19:30 dinner @ Himinohana

19:30-22:00 poster session 2 @ Poster Room (Himinohana)

• Nanako Miyai @ MI: Hierarchical representation learning of dog behavior​ using DeepLabCut and h/BehaveMAE​

• Fuka Uenaka @ MI: PCA as auxiliary variable for nonlinear ICA

• Yosuke Taniuchi @ MI: Computational modeling of grief as belief network revision: A reinforcement learning study of simulated loss experiences

• Ikuto Nakagawa @ MI: Analysis of the effects of emotions, visual stimuli, and physiological responses on subjective taste evaluation

• Thuwiba Qais Abdalla Ibrahim @ MI: Modeling decision-making uncertainty in OCD: Integrating the stochastic maximum principle and free energy principle

• Shiyi Cao @ MI/ATR: Adaptive distortions of confidence under asymmetric environments and internal constraints

• Masahiro Saito @ MI: Test time adaptation for regression

• Raturi Himanshu @ MI: Smart surveillance for public safety: Real-time tracking of vulnerable individuals

• Benedict Ryan C. Tiu @ MI: Multi-task multi-frequency LSTM for nowcasting

• Midori Osaki @ MI: TBA

• Suzuka Higashitsutsumi @ MI: Extracting autonomic nervous states from monkey ECG with CEBRA toward drug side-effect detection

• Tatsuyoshi Nakanishi @ D2B: Simulating fluid dynamics in the Kupffer's vesicle for organ positioning regulation

• Koki Fujiwara @ D2B: Traction force estimation using deep learning with cell shape

• Momo Shikata @ D2B: Demonstration study on breath component quantification using semiconductor gas sensors

• Juri Toyoda @ D2B: An attempt to extract microtubule-dependent molecular activity patterns controlling cellular deformation

• Lisna Hidayati @ D2B: Spatiotemporal mapping of ERK activity and nuclear features in collective cell migration

• Masahiro Kamata @ D2B: Analysis of young-onset stroke using medical claims and health screening data

[Aug 5]

7:00-8:30 breakfast

8:30-9:30 Himinohana->TPU

9:40-11:10 oral session 2 (15 min x 6) @ Conference Room (TPU)

• Asst Prof Yuzhe Li @ MI: Dual automatic dimensionality reduction for linear latent variable model and its application in Calcium imaging data

• Asst Prof Toshiya Kokaji @ D2B: Gene regulatory network estimation using prior knowledge and its applications to neural development

• Assoc Prof Katsuyuki Kunida @ FHU: Machine learning-based mortality prediction for pediatric fulminant myocarditis using cytokine profiles

• Assoc Prof Hidetoshi Urakubo @ FHU: Biophysical simulation: neurons and synapses

• Assoc Prof Takatomi Kubo @ MI: Intelligence as quest with orientation amid the structure of knowledge―from nowhere to know-where in cursed space

• Asst Prof Chie Hieida @ MI: Study of emotion concept formation by integrating vision, physiology, and word information using multilayered multimodal latent Dirichlet allocation

11:20-12:00 TPU->Toyama castle

12:00-15:00 lunch & free discussion @ Toyama City

15:00 departure at Toyama sta

20:00 arrival at Kita-Ikoma sta (via Takanohara at 19:30 and NAIST at 19:50) 

Meeting Points:

7:30 NAIST Main Gate (map)

Note:

Link to past lab retreats