Yuji Kawai

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Affiliation: Associate Professor, Symbiotic Intelligent Systems Research Center, Institute for Open and Transdisciplinary Research Initiatives, Osaka University

Degree: Ph.D.(Osaka University)

J-GLOBAL ID: 201701009709936210
researchmap Member ID: B000285269

External link: http://www.er.ams.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp/kawai/hp/?lang=en

Research Interests

Research Areas

Research History

Apr, 2023 - Present

Associate Professor, Institute for Open and Transdisciplinary Research Initiatives, Osaka University
Apr, 2021 - Mar, 2023

Specially Appointed Associate Professor, Institute for Open and Transdisciplinary Research Initiatives, Osaka University
Apr, 2020 - Mar, 2021

Specially Appointed Associate Professor, Research Manager, Office of Management and Planning, Osaka University
Apr, 2019 - Mar, 2020

Specially Appointed Lecturer, Institute for Open and Transdisciplinary Research Initiatives, Osaka University
Apr, 2017 - Mar, 2019

Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University
Apr, 2016 - Mar, 2017

Specially Appointed Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University
Apr, 2013 - Mar, 2016

Research Fellow (DC1), Japan Society for the Promotion Science

Education

Apr, 2011 - Mar, 2016

Department of Adaptive Machine Systems, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University
Apr, 2009 - Mar, 2011

Division of Mechanical, Materials and Manufacturing Science, School of Engineering, Osaka University
Apr, 2004 - Mar, 2009

Department of Control Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Matsue College

Committee Memberships

Apr, 2024 - Present

プロジェクトマネージャー, IPA 独立行政法人情報処理推進機構未踏ターゲット事業（リザバーコンピューティング技術を活用したソフトウェア開発分野）
Apr, 2022 - Present

編集委員, 日本赤ちゃん学会学会誌ベビーサイエンス
Apr, 2020 - Present

委員, 日本ロボット学会「ロボットの法及び倫理に関する研究専門委員会」

Awards

Mar, 2023

Young Researcher Award, Adaptive kinematic/dynamic control of a robot arm using a modular reservoir computer, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Japan Chapter

Yuji Kawai
Nov, 2019

AI ELSI Award Finalists

Yuji Kawai
Nov, 2019

Annual Conference Award, Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence

Yuji Kawai, Yuho Ozasa, Jihoon Park, Minoru Asada
Nov, 2018

Annual Conference Award, Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence

Yuji Kawai, Jihoon Park, Minoru Asada
Oct, 2018

Research Award, Japanese Neural Network Society

Yuji Kawai, Jihoon Park
Sep, 2018

Babybot Challenge Paper Award, 8th Joint IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and on Epigenetic Robotics

Yuji Kawai, Tomohiro Takimoto, Jihoon Park, Minoru Asada
2017

Babybot Challenge Participation Award, 7th IEEE Joint International Conference on Development and Learning and on Epigenetic Robotics

Tomohiro Takimoto, Yuji Kawai, Jihoon Park, Minoru Asada
2017

The 1st place for Soccer SPL league, RoboCup Japan Open 2017

Yuji Kawai
2014

Best Presentation Award, 31st Annual Conference of the Japanese Cognitive Science Society

Yuji Kawai, Yuji Oshima, Yuki Sasamoto, Yukie Nagai, Minoru Asada
2013

Incentive Award, JSAI

Jihoon Park, Yuji Kawai, Takato Horii, Yuji Oshima, Kazuaki Tanaka, Hihorki Mori, Yukie Nagai, Takashi Takuma, Minoru Asada
2013

RoboCup Research Award, RoboCup Japan

Yuji Kawai, Jihoon Park, Takato Horii, Yuji Oshima, Kazuaki Tanaka, Hiroki Mori, Yukie Nagai, Takashi Takuma, Minoru Asada
2012

Best Paper Award Finalist, 16th Annual RoboCup International Symposium

Yuji Kawai, Jihoon Park, Takato Horii, Yuji Oshima, Kazuaki Tanaka, Hiroki Mori, Yukie Nagai, Takashi Takuma, Minoru Asada
2012

宮原国際研究活動助成選抜論文, 社団法人生産技術振興協会

河合祐司
2012

AI Award, 35th JSAI SIG Challenge

Jihoon Park, Yuji Kawai, Takato Horii, Yuji Oshima, Kazuaki Tanaka, Hihorki Mori, Yukie Nagai, Takashi Takuma, Minoru Asada
2011

Microsoft Student Travel Award, 1st Joint IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and on Epigenetic Robotics

Yuji Kawai
2008

Hatakeyama Award, Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers

Yuji Kawai

Major Papers

Spatiotemporal motor learning with reward-modulated Hebbian plasticity in modular reservoir computing

Yuji Kawai, Minoru Asada

Neurocomputing, 558 126740, Nov, 2023 Peer-reviewedLead authorCorresponding author
Anthropomorphism-based causal and responsibility attributions to robots

Yuji Kawai, Tomohito Miyake, Jihoon Park, Jiro Shimaya, Hideyuki Takahashi, Minoru Asada

Scientific Reports, 13(1) 12234, Jul, 2023 Peer-reviewedLead authorCorresponding author
Learning long-term motor timing/patterns on an orthogonal basis in random neural networks

Yuji Kawai, Jihoon Park, Ichiro Tsuda, Minoru Asada

Neural Networks, 163 298-311, Jun, 2023 Peer-reviewedLead authorCorresponding author
A small-world topology enhances the echo state property and signal propagation in reservoir computing

Yuji Kawai, Jihoon Park, Minoru Asada

Neural Networks, 112 15-23, Apr, 2019 Peer-reviewed

Books and Other Publications

ロボットからヒトを識る

河合祐司 (Role: Joint editor)

大阪大学出版会, Apr, 2018
高校生のための心理学講座 −心の不思議を解き明かそう

河合祐司 (Role: Joint author, 第7章ロボットは人の心をもてるのか？ー共感性が秘密の鍵)

誠信書房, 2016
RoboCup 2012: Robot Soccer World Cup XVI Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Yuji Kawai, Jihoon Park, Takato Horii, Yuji Oshima, Kazuaki Tanaka, Hihorki Mori, Yukie Nagai, Takashi Takuma, Minoru Asada (Role: Joint author, pp. 178-189)

Springer, 2013

Presentations

Oscillatory inputs enhance timing/chaotic time-series learning in spiking reservoir computing

Jihoon Park, Yuji Kawai, Minoru Asada

The 13th RIEC International Symposium on Brain Functions and Brain Computer, Feb 27, 2025
振動駆動レザバーモデルによるプロドラマーの演奏の学習

河合祐司, 藤井進也, 浅田稔

第34回日本神経回路学会全国大会, Sep 12, 2024
振動駆動型スパイキングレザバーコンピューティングによるタイミング／カオス時系列学習

朴志勲, 河合祐司, 浅田稔

第34回日本神経回路学会全国大会, Sep 12, 2024
「発達」×「AI」×「ロボット」＝「？」指定討論

河合祐司

日本発達心理学会第35回大会, Mar 6, 2024 Invited
Adaptive control of a robot arm using modular reservoir computing

Yuji Kawai, Hiroshi Atsuta, Minoru Asada

Winter Workshop on Mechanism of Brain and Mind 2024, Jan 9, 2024
Small random neural networks orthogonally oscillate to learn long-term motor timing/patterns

Yuji Kawai, Jihoon Park, Ichiro Tsuda, Minoru Asada

Winter Workshop on Mechanism of Brain and Mind 2023, Jan 6, 2023
Locally weak inhibition in spiking neural networks globally disrupts information transmission

Jihoon Park, Yuji Kawai, Minoru Asada

Winter Workshop on Mechanism of Brain and Mind 2023, Jan 6, 2023
Acquiring inverse kinematics through motor babbling for a pneumatic robot arm

Andreas Gassiloud, Yuji Kawai, Hiroshi Atsuta, Erhan Oztop, Hisashi Ishihara, Minoru Asada

Winter Workshop on Mechanism of Brain and Mind 2023, Jan 6, 2023
Small sample learning of reaching movements of a redundant robotic arm with an echo state network

Hiroshi Atsuta, Yuji Kawai, Minoru Asada

Winter Workshop on Mechanism of Brain and Mind 2023, Jan 5, 2023
Learning long-term motor timing and patterns using modular reservoir computing

Yuji Kawai, Jihoon Park, Ichiro Tsuda, Minoru Asada

International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Brain Science 2022, Jul 4, 2022
Autistic children classification on MEG signal using deep learning and its explanation

河合祐司

第43回日本神経科学大会シンポジウム『人工知能とビッグデータは精神神経疾患の神経科学に何をもたらすか？』, Jul 29, 2020 Invited
Self-organization of connectivity in spiking neural networks with (im)balanced excitation and inhibition

Jihoon Park, Yuji Kawai, Minoru Asada

The 2nd International Symposium on Symbiotic Intelligent Systems, Jan 31, 2020
Comparison between human and avatar counselors with or without empathetic responses

Jyh-Jong Hsieh, Chie Hieida, Yuji Kawai, Minoru Asada

The 2nd International Symposium on Symbiotic Intelligent Systems, Jan 31, 2020
Analyses of a counselor's empathic behavior toward a client: Speech contents and facial expressions

Chie Hieida, Jyh-Jong Hsieh, Yuji Kawai, Minoru Asada

The 2nd International Symposium on Symbiotic Intelligent Systems, Jan 31, 2020
The analysis of synchronisation between two small-world oscillator networks: Towards understanding inter-brain synchronisation

Kentaro Suzuki, Jihoon Park, Yuji Kawai, Minoru Asada

The 2nd International Symposium on Symbiotic Intelligent Systems, Jan 31, 2020
The effect of a small-world topology on synchronization between two Kuramoto-oscillator networks

Kentaro Suzuki, Jihoon Park, Yuji Kawai, Minoru Asada

Winter Workshop on Mechanism of Brain and Mind 2020, Jan 9, 2020
How Does a Client Feel Empathy from a Counselor? - Analyses of Speech Contents and Facial Expressions -

Chie Hieida, Jyh-Jong Hsieh, Yuji Kawai, Minoru Asada

Winter Workshop on Mechanism of Brain and Mind 2020, Jan 8, 2020
Formation of Connectivity between Spiking Neural Networks with Balanced Excitation and Inhibition

Jihoon Park, Yuji Kawai, Minoru Asada

Winter Workshop on Mechanism of Brain and Mind 2020, Jan 8, 2020
Working memory performance of an echo state network with distributed time constants

Tomohiro Miki, Yuji Kawai, Jihoon Park, Minoru Asada

Winter Workshop on Mechanism of Brain and Mind 2020, Jan 8, 2020
人工物への心理学的責任帰属

河合祐司

応用脳科学コンソーシアムニューロ/AI ELSIワークショップ, Dec 18, 2019 Invited

Teaching Experience

Apr, 2025 - Present

学問の扉新学術領域の創成と革新的イノベーション (大阪大学全学教育推進機構)
Apr, 2017 - Mar, 2019

基盤PP (大阪大学大学院工学研究科知能・機能創成工学専攻)
Apr, 2016 - Mar, 2019

アドバンスドプログラミング演習（C言語） (大阪大学工学部応用理工学科)
Apr, 2016 - Mar, 2019

計算機とプログラミング（PBL担当） (大阪大学工学部応用理工学科)

Professional Memberships

Jun, 2017 - Present

JAPANESE NEURAL NETWORK SOCIETY
Jun, 2017 - Present

THE JAPANESE SOCIETY FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Mar, 2014 - Present

JAPANESE COGNITIVE SCIENCE SOCIETY
Aug, 2011 - Present

THE ROBOTICS SOCIETY OF JAPAN

Research Projects

Designing artificial faces and bodies with functional expression structure

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Transformative Research Areas (A), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2025 - Mar, 2030

Hisashi Ishihara
Reservoir computing-based adaptation in body-control-environment coupled dynamical systems under unknown and perturbed conditions

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Transformative Research Areas (A) (Publicly Offered Research), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2025 - Mar, 2027

Yuji Kawai
小脳の全脳予測による運動・認知・情動の計算論

戦略的創造研究推進事業 (さきがけ), 科学技術振興機構, Oct, 2023 - Mar, 2027

河合祐司
An exploration of the principle of emerging interactions in spatiotemporal diversity

Strategic Basic Research Programs (CREST), Japan Science and Technology Agency, Oct, 2017 - Mar, 2023

Ichiro Tsuda
工学・脳科学をエビデンスとした社会的基盤概念と価値の創生

課題設定による先導的人文学・社会科学研究推進事業（実社会対応プログラム）, 日本学術振興会, Oct, 2018 - Sep, 2021

松浦和也
R&D for Computing Platform Inspired by Human Brain Cognition

Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Jun, 2017 - Mar, 2020

Masayuki Murata
Mirror neuron system by sensorimotor abstraction based on reward

Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2013 - Mar, 2016

Yuji Kawai

Academic Activities

一緒にさがそう未来のルール〜ロボットの事故は誰かのせい？」

Planning, management, etc., Planning/Implementing academic research

日本科学未来館オープンラボ, Oct 14, 2018

Social Activities

私の進路選択

Lecturer

松江工業高等専門学校OB講演, Dec 6, 2023 - Dec 6, 2023
ヒトとロボットが共に生きる社会を考える

Panelist, Host, Lecturer, Planner, Logistic support

大阪大学先導的学際研究機構附属共生知能システム研究センター, 第一回大阪大学共生知能システム研究センター【おウチで】サイエンスカフェ, Aug 10, 2020
脳の構造と機能をつなぐ構成的神経科学：脳から身体，社会へ

Lecturer

シンギュラリティサロン, Oct 5, 2019
脳を「つくって」脳と体のメカニズムに迫る

Lecturer

東京工業大学, 第2回中高生のための東工大Gateway to Science 機械と人の脳：AIの先にあるものは, Jan 26, 2019
一緒につくろう未来の法律〜ロボットが起こした事故は誰のせい？

Host, Lecturer, Logistic support

日本科学未来館, オープンラボ, Aug 21, 2018
ロボットのための法律・哲学・心理相談所

Host, Lecturer, Logistic support

東京工業大学オープンキャンパス工学院企画, Aug 10, 2018
人の知能を模した人工知能

Lecturer

大阪大学先導的学際研究機構システム知能学研究部門, 若手研究者によるサイエンスカフェ〜AI・ロボティクスから脳科学，そして哲学へ〜, Aug 6, 2017 - Aug 7, 2017
ロボットはヒトになれるか？〜構成的発達科学の挑戦〜

Lecturer

大阪大学総合学術博物館, サイエンスカフェ＠中央公民館, Mar 25, 2017
私の進路選択

Lecturer

松江工業高等専門学校, OB講演, Dec 20, 2016 - Dec 20, 2016
私の進路選択

Lecturer

松江工業高等専門学校, OB講演, Jan 9, 2013 - Jan 9, 2013
大学と高専 -夢のある進路を-

Lecturer

松江工業高等専門学校, OB講演, Jan 13, 2011 - Jan 13, 2011

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