Taishi Kotsuka received the B.S in engineering from Keio University in 2018. By Double Degree Program, he received the M.S. degree in engineering from Keio University (Applied Physics and Physico-informatics) in 2021 and the M.S. degree in science from Technical University Munich (Physics Dept., Biophysics) in 2021, respectively. He received Ph.D. in engineering from Keio University (Applied Physics and Physico-informatics) in 2024. Currently, he is a postdoctoral scholar at University of California, Santa Barbara (Mechanical Engineering). His research interests lie in the integration of control engineering and synthetic biology. Especially he proposes control theory for the analysis and design of molecular communication systems composed of bacteria and molecular robots. 

Career

March 2018                      B.S. degree, Applied Physics and Physico-informatics, Keio University

                                         Advisor : Prof. Takanori Uchiyama 

March 2021                      M.S. degree, Applied Physics and Physico-informatics, Keio University (Double Degree Program)

                                         Advisor : Prof. Yutaka Hori 

March 2021                      M.S. degree, Biophysics, Physics, Technical University Munich (Double Degree Program)

                                         Advisor : Prof. Friedrich Simmel 

March 2024         　　      Ph.D., Applied Physics and Physico-informatics, Keio University

                                          Advisor : Prof. Yutaka Hori 

April 2022 - March 2024　JSPS Research Fellowship for Young Scientists (DC2)

April in 2024 - Today       Postdoctoral scholar, Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara

                                          Advisor : Prof. Enoch Yeung 

April in 2024 - Today       JSPS Overseas Research Fellowship

Peer-reviewed Journal Papers

1. S. Kitada, T. Kotsuka, Y. Hori, "Analysis of Signal Distortion in Molecular Communication Channels Using Frequency Response," New Generation Computing, 2024 (accepted) (Co-first author).

2. T. Kotsuka, Y. Hori, "A Control-theoretic Model for Bidirectional Molecular Communication Systems," IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological and Multi-Scale Communications, vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 274-285, 2023. (10.1109/TMBMC.2023.3290077)

3. T. Kotsuka, Y. Hori, "Spatial Frequency-Based Characterization of Disturbance Rejection in Molecular Communication Systems," IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological and Multi-Scale Communications, vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 36-43, 2022. (10.1109/TMBMC.2021.3083726)

Preprints

1. S. Kitada, T. Kotsuka, Y. Hori, "Analysis of Signal Distortion in Molecular Communication Channels Using Frequency Response," (arXiv), 2024.

2. T. Kotsuka, Y. Hori, "Stability analysis for large-scale multi-agent molecular communication systems," (arXiv),2023.

3. T. Kotsuka, Y. Hori, "Stability analysis for circulant structured multi-agent molecular communication systems," (arXiv),2023.

4. T. Kotsuka, Y. Hori, "A Control-theoretic model for bidirectional molecular communication systems," (arXiv),2022.

International Conferences

1. T. Kotsuka, Y. Hori, “Transfer function-based stability analysis for multi-agent molecular communication systems using a discrete Fourier transform matrix,” SICE Annual Conference 2023, Tsu, Japan, September 2023 (Poster).

2. S. Kitada, T. Kotsuka, Y. Hori, “Analysis of Signal Distortion in Molecular Communication Channel,” The 22nd IFAC World Congress, Yokohama, Japan, July 2023.

3. T. Kotsuka, Y. Hori, “Stability analysis for circulant structured multi-agent molecular communication systems,” The 7th Workshop on Molecular Communications, Erlangen, Germany, April 2023.

4. A. Nakajima, T. Yamamoto, T. Kotsuka, Y. Hori, "Model-based analysis and rapid prototyping of genetic circuits with decoy transcription factor binding sites", Proceedings of SICE Annual Conference, pp. 438-441, Kumamoto, Japan, 2022. (A. Nakajima was selected as the winner of the SICE Annual Conference Young Author's Award.)

5. T. Kotsuka, Y. Hori, "Frequency response of diffusion-based molecular communication channels in bounded environment," Proceedings of the 20th European Control Conference, pp. 327-332, London, UK, 2022. (doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2203.13532)

6. S. Hara, T. Kotsuka, and Y. Hori, “Modeling and stability analysis for multi-agent molecular communication systems : a case study for two agents,” The SICE Annual Conference 2021, Online, 2021.

7. T. Kotsuka, Y. Hori, "Disturbance response analysis of cell-to-cell communication systems based on spatial frequency decomposition," IFAC-PapersOnLine (Proceedings of the IFAC Foundations of Systems Biology in Engineering), vol. 52, No. 26, pp. 65-69,Valencia, Spain, 2019. (doi:10.1016/j.ifacol.2019.12.237,bioRxiv)

Japanese Conference

1. 小塚太資，堀豊，伝達関数に基づくマルチエージェント分子通信システムの安定性解析，第7回分子ロボティクス年次大会，Tokyo，March 2024．

2. 北田祥一朗，小塚太資，堀豊，信号の歪みを抑制する分子通信路の設計法，第10回 制御部門マルチシンポジウム，Kusatsu，March 2023．

3. 小塚太資，堀豊，複数の分子ロボットによる分子通信システムのノイズ抑制解析，第6回分子ロボティクス年次大会，Sendai，November 2022.

4. 小塚太資，堀豊，双方向型分子通信路のモデル化および周波数応答解析，第66回システム制御情報学会 研究発表講演会，Kyoto，May 2022．

5. 小塚太資，堀豊，拡散分子通信路の伝達関数を用いた通信距離による帯域制限の解析，第5回分子ロボティクス年次大会，Online，November 2021．

6. 小塚太資，堀豊，空間周波数サブシステム分解に基づく細胞間分子通信システムの外乱応答解析，第 63回自動制御連合講演会論文集，pp. 373-377，Online，November 2020．

Talks

1. 小塚太資，分子ロボット特有の通信システムの解析，ロボティクス・メカトロニクス講演会2022シンポジウム『 “いいかげん”を科学して未来を創るソフトロボット学3』，Sapporo，June 2022．

Other Presentations

2. 小塚太資，空間周波数分析に基づく細胞間分子通信システムの外乱応答解析，SICE 分子ロボテ ィクス研究会第 3 回オンライン定例研究会，オンライン開催，2020 年 11 月．

3. 小塚太資，細胞間分子通信により制御される細胞集団の外乱応答特性の解析，「分子ロボティク ス研究会」2018 年 5 月 定例研究会，東京，2018 年 5 月．