Yuria Shimizu
E-mail: yuriashimizu1120[atmark]g.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp
About
I'm a PhD Student at Oizumi Lab, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Japan. I'm also associated with the Co-Embodiment Self Lab (CELab) at the University of Lisbon, Portugal, where I was a visiting fellow in fall 2024.
Trained as a physician (MD) and in deep learning and neuroimaging, I pursue two lines of research. First, I study how to make AI more human-like in the way it represents the world. In our recent paper, we showed that transferring the relational structure of human similarity judgments into deep neural networks brings their representations close enough to ours to be aligned with human representations, object by object, without supervision. Second, I study how the brain gives rise to subjective experience — above all, the self: its unity in the moment and its continuity over time. Here I want to understand both the processes that generate it and the representations they produce, and, just as much, how these come apart in psychiatric disorders.
I'm also driven to put the insights and tools of neuroscience and psychiatry to work in society, especially personalized, transdiagnostic mental health care.
A detailed CV is available here: My CV
Education
MSc, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Japan (2024)
MBBS, Faculty of Medicine, Nara Medical University, Japan (2022)
Certificate
Medical license in Japan (2022)
Fellowship
World-leading INnovative Graduate Study Program of Advanced Basic Science Course(WINGS-ABC) (2022 - Present)