Isao Tokuda's Curriculum Vitae

• Place of Birth: Marietta, Georgia, USA
• Degree: Ph.D (Division of Mathematical Engineering and Information Physics, Faculty of Engineering, University of Tokyo)
  • Thesis: Application of Chaotic Dynamics to Neural Information Processing
  • Supervisor: Professor Kazuyuki Aihara
  • Date: April 13, 2000; No. 14672

• Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ritsumeikan University

• Arbeitsgruppe Nichtlineare Dynamik, Institut fuer Physik der Universitaet Potsdam
• Innovationskolleg Theoretische Biologie, Humboldt Universaet zu Berlin

• 1992-1994: Master's Program of Science and Engineering, Graduate School, University of Tsukuba, Japan
• 1988-1992: BS, Department of Physics, University of Tsukuba, Japan

• 2002: Humboldt Research Fellowship for Post-docs resident outside Germany

1. I. Tokuda, J. Kurths, E. Rosa Jr.: Learning phase synchronization from non-synchronized chaotic regime, Physical Review Letters, Vol. 88, Issue 1, 014101 (2002)
2. T. Matsumoto, T. Miyano, R. Tokunaga, I. Tokuda: ``Chaos and Time Series,'' Baifukan (2002) (in Japanese)
3. I. T. Tokuda, J. Horacek, J. G. Svec, H. Herzel: Comparison of biomechanical modeling of register transitions and voice instabilities with excised larynx experiments, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 122, pp. 519-531 (2007)
4. I. T. Tokuda, S. Jain, I.Z. Kiss, J.L. Hudson: Inferring phase equations from multivariate time series, Physical Review Letters, 99, 064101 (2007)
5. T. Riede, I. T. Tokuda, J.B. Munger, S. Thompson: Mammalian lryngeal air sacs add variability to the vocal tract impedance - Physical and computational modeling, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 124, Issue 1, 634 (2008)

• 2013-Present: Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ritsumeikan University
• 2011-2013: Associate Professor, Department of Micro System Technology, Ritsumeikan University
• 2005-2011: Associate Professor, School of Information Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
• 2003-2005: Associate Professor, Faculty of Engineering, Muroran Institute of Technology
• 1992-2003: Assistant, Faculty of Engineering, Muroran Institute of Technology

1. ``Method for designing asymptitic measure of chaotic optimization systems,'' Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (No. 10750259), Japanese Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture (1998-1999)
2. ``Non-stationary chaotic time series analysis based on a parametrized family of nonlinear predictors,'' Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (No. 12750308) Japanese Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture (2000-2001)
3. ``Multivariate data analysis of coupled chaotic systems,'' Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (No. 14750272) Japanese Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture (2002-2004)
4. ``Multivariate data analysis of coupled nonlinear oscillators and its application to real-world data,'' Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (No. 17760292-1) Japanese Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture (2005-2007)
5. ``Oscillator network modeling of SCN neurons and its application to circadian rhythm,'' Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (No. 20560352) Japanese Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture (2008-2010)

• 1992-Present: Member of the Institute of Electronics, Information, Communication Engineers (IEICE)
• 1992-Present: Member of the Operational Committee of the Workshop of Nonlinear Theory and its Applications, IEICE.
• 1999-Present: Member of the Operational Committee of the Nonlinear Problem Research Group, IEICE.
• 2008-Present: Associate Editor, Transactions of IEICE (A)
• 1999-Present: Guest Associate Editor, Special Section on Nonlinear Theory and its Applications, IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals
• One of the Organizers, Miniworkshop on Nonlinear Data Analysis and Neural Networks, (September 22 - 23, 2000, Center for Nonlinear Dynamics University of Potsdam)
• Session Organizer, ``Nonlinear Data Analysis and its Applications,'' (Oct. 8, 2002, NOLTA, X'ian) (with J. Kurths); Session Organizer, ``A New Trend in Biological Information Processing Systems: Methods of Analysis and Modeling,'' (1997, NOLTA, Hawaii) (with T. Nagashima)
• Publication Chair of Fourth IEEE International Workshop on Soft Computing as Transdisciplinary Science and Technology (2005, Muroran)
• Local Organizer of International Conference on Voice Physiology and Biomechanics (2006, Tokyo)
• Organizer of International Workshop on Synchronization: Phenomena and Analyses (2006, Tokyo)
• Organizer of Workshop on ``Physics of nonlinear oscillator system: Analysis of current problems'' (2007, Yukawa Institute of Theoretical Physics, Kyoto)
• Host Professor of Dr Tobias RIEDE as JSPS Fellow (PE 06030) (28 Dec. 2006 - 4 April 2007).
• Reviewer of the Transactions of IEICE (ID: 2002SJ0095);
• Registered Reviewer of Physical Review E, Physical Review Letters, Journal of the Acoustical Sociaety of America.
• Reviewer of Neural Networks, IEEE Trans. NN, IEEE Trans. CAS, Physics Letters A, Chaos, International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, Journal of Biological Systems, Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics, IEICE Transactions, Transactions of the Information Processing Society of Japan, Transactions of the IEE of Japan etc

• Alexander-von-Humboldt Research Fellow, Institute of Physics, University of Potsdam / Institute for Theoretical Biology, Humboldt University (May, 2003 -- )
• Visiting Scholar, Institute for Nonlinear Science, University of California, San Diego (Host: Prof. Henry D. I. Abarbanel) (March, 2002; August, September, 2002)
• Exchange Researcher of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) (Researchers Exchange Programme between Japan and China) (Prof. Xu-Fa Wang, University of Science and Technology of China; Prof. Shaoping Ma, Tsinghua University) (March, 2001)
• Research Fellow, Department of Electrical Engineering, The University of Edinburgh (Host: Dr. Stephen McLaughlin) (October, 2000)
• Visiting Researcher, Institute for Theoretical Biology, Humboldt University (Host: Prof.Dr. Hanspeter Herzel) (September, 2000, September, 2001)
• Visiting Researcher, Nonlinear Dynamics Group, Institute of Physics, University of Potsdam (Host: Prof. Dr. J\"{u}rgen Kurths) (August, 2000; August, 2001)

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