Curriculum Vitae

Toshiaki Imada, Ph.D.
Research Professor, Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences

Educational Background

Ph.D., University of Tokyo (Electronics Engineering, 1976)
M.A., University of Tokyo (Electronics Engineering, 1973)
B.A., University of Tokyo (Electrical Engineering, 1971)

Faculty and Research Positions Held

• Senior Manager (Human Information Research Lab), 1999-2002
  
• Group Leader (IMADA Research Group), 1989-1999
  
• Assistant Director (Information Sciences Lab), 1988-1989
  
• Senior Research Scientist, Supervisor (Information & Communications Lab), 1985-1988
  
• Senior Staff Scientist (Information & Communications Lab), 1984-1985
  
• Assistant Chief (Basic Research Labs), 1982-1984
  
• Staff Scientist (Basic Research Labs), 1980-1982
  
• Scientist (Basic Research Labs), 1976-1980
  
  

Professional Offices and Affiliations

Associate Editor, The Journal of Japan Biomagnetism and Bioelectromagnetics Society, 1996-1999; 2001-2002

Editorial Board Member, The Journal of The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, 1990-1993

Research Affiliate, Low Temperature Laboratory, Helsinki University of Technology, 2000, 1993-1995, 1990-1991

Research Affiliate, Communications Research Laboratory, Ministry of Post and Telecommunications, 1995-1997

Board of Directors, Japan Biomagnetism and Bioelectromagnetics Society, 1997-present

Board of Trustees, Subcommittee for High Performance SQUID systems, 146th Committee for Superconducting Electronics, Japan Society for Promotion of Science, 1991-present

Board of Trustees, Society for Noninvasive Localization of Brain Functions, 1994-1998

Board of Trustees, Japan Biomagnetism and Bioelectromagnetics Society, 1993-1997

Senior member, Institute of Electric and Electronics Engineers, Inc., 1990-present

Member, Society for Neuroscience, 1995-present

Member, Japanese Society for Medical and Biological Engineering, 1973-present

Member, Japan Neuroscience Society, 1998-present

Member, Japanese Society of Clinical Neurophysiology, 1990-present

Research Grants

Toshiaki Imada, Principal Investigator, METI (Ministry of Economy, Trade & Industry, Japan), 1997-2001

Toshiaki Imada, Principal Investigator, MITI (Ministry of International Trade & Industry, Japan), 1993-1996

Recent Major Public Addresses

How does the brain work when hearing speech sounds? -- Human auditory-language neural system, neuroimaging, and artificial intelligence (2004, October). Workshop on Frontier Research and Advanced Technologies, Saitama, Japan.

Current topics in brain science and artificial intelligence -- Adult's brain and child's brain (2003, June). The 48th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Dialysis Therapy, Osaka, Japan.

Analysis of higher order brain functions using MEG (1999, November). Japan Society of Medical Imaging National Conference, Tokyo, Japan.

Brain activity during recognizing Kanji and Kana characters (1999, February). Japanese Society of Electroencephalography & Electromyography National Conference, Tokyo, Japan.

Neuromagnetic responses associated with object recognition (1998, October). International Conference on Neural Information Processing, Kita-kyuushuu, Japan.

Neuromagnetic signals associated with reading Japanese characters (1998, August). International Conference on Biomagnetism, Sendai, Japan.

Pattern recognition and working memory in the human brain--Neuromagnetic study (1998, June). Finnish-Japanese Symposium on Neurosciences, Helsinki, Finland.

Neuromagnetic responses to reading splitted kanji characters (1997, April). Pan-Pacific Conference on Brain Topography, Urayasu, Japan.