Curriculum vitae
Taro Toyoizumi, Ph.D.
Interest:
Neural information processing
Modeling of activity-dependent plasticity
Neural population dynamics
Synaptic plasticity and its optimality
Education:
B.S. Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2001
M.S. Department of Complexity Science and Engineering, The University
of Tokyo, 2003
Ph.D. Department of Complexity Science and Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 2006
Positions:
Visiting researcher at W. Gerstner Lab (EPFL, Switzerland) from Dec 2003 to Nov 2004
Visiting researcher at S. Amari Lab (RIKEN, Japan) from May 2005 to
Feb 2008
Postdoctoral research fellow at Center for Theoretical
Neuroscience (Columbia University, USA) from Sep 2006 to Mar 2010
Special Postdoctoral Researcher at Brain Science Institute (RIKEN, Japan) from Apr 2010 to Mar 2011
Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Computational Intelligence and Systems Science (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan) from Apr 2013 to Mar 2016
Laboratory Head, Brain Science Institute (RIKEN, Japan) from Apr 2011 to Mar 2018
Team Leader, Center for Brain Science (RIKEN, Japan) from Apr 2018
Adjunct Professor, Department of Mathematical Informatics, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology (The University of Tokyo, Japan) from Apr 2019
Grants and Awards:
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Research Fellow, from Apr 2003 to Mar 2006
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Postdoctoral
Research Fellow, from Apr 2006 to Feb 2008
Robert Leet and Clara Guthrie Patterson Trust, Postdoctoral Fellow, from Mar 2008 to Feb 2010
International Neural Network Society, Young Investigator Award 2008
RIKEN, Special Postdoctoral Researcher from Apr 2010 to Mar 2011
Brain/MINDS Project (JP15dm0207001) Researcher from Apr 2014 to Mar 2024
MEXT Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas (18H05432) PI from Jun 2018 to Mar 2023
OMRON-RIKEN Collaboration Center, PI from 2017-2019
CREST bioDX (JPMJCR23N2) Co-investigator from Oct 2023 to Mar 2029
The Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, The Young Scientists' Prize 2016
RIKEN Baihou-prize 2023
Professional Service:
Neural Networks, Co-Editor-in-Chief 2022-, Editorial Board 2012-2021
Scientific Reports, Editorial Board 2016-
Faculty Opinions, Theoretical & Computational Neuroscience, Faculty Member 2017-
Biological Cybernetics, Editorial Board 2018-
Network: Computation in Neural Systems, Editorial Board 2012-2021
Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, Associate Editor 2017- , Review Editor 2009-2016
Organization for Computational Neuroscience, Board of Directors 2017-2019, Program Committee 2014-2016
Japanese Neural Network Society, Board of Directors 2022-
HFSP Fellowship, Review Committee 2016
Consortium for Applied Neuroscience, Lecturer 2019-
NEURO2019, Executive Committee
JNNS2019, Program Committee
JNS2020, Program Committee
JNS2021, Executive Committee
NEURO2022, Program Core Committee
JNS2025, Program Committee
AP-CCN, Organization Committee 2020-