TANAKA, Takuma

Research interests

Information processing in the brain
Nonlinear dynamics
Electrophysiology and simulation
Complex networks and dynamics on networks
Cultural phylogenetics

Recent papers

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“Mean-reverting self-excitation drives evolution: phylogenetic analysis of a literary genre, waka, with a neural language model.” Takuma Tanaka. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 12, 394 (2025). [Link] [PDF] [GitHub]
“Emergence of OV/VO language universals in neural language models.” Takuma Tanaka. preprint. [Link] [PDF]
“Positivity of the boundedly rational agents gain induces a potential function predicting the direction of change.” Takuma Tanaka. preprint. [Link] [PDF]
“A model of revolt for measuring cohesion during an internal conflict.” Takuma Tanaka. preprint. [Link] [PDF]
“Functional Diversity of Dopamine Axons in Prefrontal Cortex During Classical Conditioning.” Kenta Abe, Yuki Kambe, Kei Majima, Zijing Hu, Makoto Ohtake, Ali Momennezhad, Hideki Izumi, Takuma Tanaka, Ashley Matunis, Emma Stacy, Takahide Itokazu, Takashi R. Sato, Tatsuo K. Sato. eLife 12:RP91136 (2024). [Link]
“Inter-brain synchronization in the client-therapist relationship using sandplay therapy: an exploratory study.” Michiko Akimoto, Hiroshi Ishihara, Junko Ito, Takuma Tanaka, Yasutaka Kubota, Keiichi Narita. Journal of Sandplay Therapy 32(1), 121–134 (2023). [Link]
“Risk factors associated with hospitalization in patients with asymptomatic or mild COVID-19 in public accommodation facilities in Tokyo.” Yohei Sakamoto, Kenichi Satoh, Takuma Tanaka, Takayuki Yamaguchi, Tomomi Miyamoto, Kenji Sawaki, Makiko Miyajima, Kazuhiko Nakaharai, Tokio Hoshina, Tetsuya Horino, Yasushi Nakazawa, Tatsuyoshi Ikenoue, Masaki Yoshida. Journal of Infection and Chemotherapy 28(10), 1439–1444 (2022). [Link]
“Predicting agents direction of change in a non-stochastic economy using a potential function.” Takuma Tanaka. Economics Bulletin 42(2), 603–608 (2022). [Link] [PDF]
“The nature of noradrenergic volume transmission from locus coeruleus to brainstem mesencephalic trigeminal sensory neurons.” Hiroki Toyoda, Jonghwa Won, Wheedong Kim, Hayun Kim, Oscar Davy, Mitsuru Saito, Doyun Kim, Takuma Tanaka, Youngnam Kang, Seog Bae Oh. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience 16:841239 (2022). [Link]
“” J-6 (2022). [Link]
“Shiga Universitys endeavor to promote human resources development for data science in Japan.” Takuma Tanaka, Tetsuto Himeno and Kaoru Fueda. Japanese Journal of Statistics and Data Science 5:747–755. [Link] [PDF]
“Inter-brain synchronization during sandplay therapy: Individual analyses.” Michiko Akimoto, Takuma Tanaka, Junko Ito, Yasutaka Kubota, and Akitoshi Seiyama. Frontiers in Psychology 12:723211 (2021). [Link]
“Input zone-selective dysrhythmia in motor thalamus after dopamine depletion.” Kouichi Nakamura, Andrew Sharott, Takuma Tanaka, and Peter Magill. Journal of Neuroscience 41(50), 10382–10404 (2021). [Link]
“Money Flow Network Among Firms Accounts in a Regional Bank of Japan.” Yoshi Fujiwara, Hiroyasu Inoue, Takayuki Yamaguchi, Hideaki Aoyama, Takuma Tanaka, Kentaro Kikuchi. EPJ Data Science 10, 19 (2021). [Link] (RIETI Discussion Paper Series 21-E-005, 2021 [Link])
“Low-dimensional dynamics of phase oscillators driven by Cauchy noise.” Takuma Tanaka. Physical Review E 102, 042220 (2020). [Link] [PDF]
“Estimation of the percentages of undiagnosed patients of the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) infection in Hokkaido, Japan by using birth-death process with recursive full tracing.” Takuma Tanaka, Takayuki Yamaguchi, and Yohei Sakamoto. PLOS ONE 15(10):e0241170 (2020). [Link] [PubMed] [PDF]
“” J-1 (2020). [Link]
“Overlapping projections of neighboring direct and indirect pathway neostriatal neurons to the external segment of the globus pallidus.” Shinichiro Okamoto, Jaerin Sohn, Takuma Tanaka, Megumi Takahashi, Yoko Ishida, Kenta Yamauchi, Masato Koike, Fumino Fujiyama, and Hiroyuki Hioki. iScience 23(9):101409 (2020). [Link] [PubMed]
“Irreversibility of change in a model of boundedly rational agents exchanging goods and capital.” Takuma Tanaka. Journal of Physics Communications 4 051001 (2020). [Link] [PDF]
“Effect of recurrent infomax on the information processing capability of input-driven recurrent neural networks.” Takuma Tanaka, Kohei Nakajima, and Toshio Aoyagi. Neuroscience Research 156, 225–233 (2020). [Link] [PubMed] [PDF]

Recent oral presentations

Counterfactual explanations of black-box machine learning models using causal discovery with applications to credit rating. Daisuke Takahashi, Shohei Shimizu, Takuma Tanaka. 2024 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI2024)July 3rd, 2024, Pacifico Yokohama (Yokohama). [Link]

Recent research grants

2022–2024 22K18526 from Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan.
2019–2021: KAKENHI (C)19K12184 from Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan.
2018–2020VRSCOPE

Awards

2009 JNNS2008 O3-3 (Young Presenter Award of Japanese Neural Network Society)

Short curriculum vitae

2025–Present : Professor, Graduate School of Data Science, Shiga University
2025–Present : Professor, Faculty of Data Science, Shiga University
2025–Present : Professor, Data Science and AI Innovation Research Promotion Center, Shiga University
2023–Present : Visiting Researcher, Department of Neuroanatomy, Juntendo University
2022–2025 : Associate professor, Data Science and AI Innovation Research Promotion Center, Shiga University
2019–2025 : Associate professor, Graduate School of Data Science, Shiga University
2017–2025 : Associate professor, Faculty of Data Science, Shiga University
2016–2022 : Associate professor, The Center for Data Science Education and Research, Shiga University
2016–2017 : Associate professor, Department of Computer Science, School of Computing, Tokyo Institute of Technology
2010–2016 : Assistant professor, Department of Computational Intelligence and Systems Science, Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology
2009–2010 : Postdoctoral fellow of Global COE Program “Center for Frontier Medicine” in Kyoto University
2005–2009 : Department of Morphological Brain Science, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University (Ph.D.)
1999–2005 : Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto University (M.D.)

Teaching experience

2024–Present : Data Science & AI Special Lectures
2021–Present : Introduction to AI
2021–Present : Programming 3 Practice
2021–2022 : Data Science Special Lectures
2020 : Informatics Special Lecture A
2019–Present : Reinforcement Learning and Transfer Learning, Reinforcement Learning and Transfer Learning Practice
2019–Present : Supervised Learning, Supervised Learning Practice
2019–Present : Data Science Japanese
2018–2020 : Programming II Practice
2018 : Artifical Intelligence
2017–2020 : Introduction to Information Science
2017–2024 : Introduction to Data Science Practice
2017–2019 : Statistical Consulting