Nobuhiko Wagatsuma, Dr. RIKEN, Brain Science Institute, Laboratory for Neural Circuit Theory, JSPS Research Fellow 2-1 Hirosawa Wako, Saitama 351-0198 Japan Tel: +81-48-462-1111 Fax: +81-48-467-6899 E-Mail: nwagatsuma@brain.riken.jp EDUCATION German Primate Center (Goettingen, German) Research Internship, Jan. 2008 - Mar. 2008 University of Southern California (Los Angeles, USA) Research Internship, Mar. 2007 - July. 2007 University of Tsukuba (Tsukuba, Japan) The Doctoral Course, Department of Computer Science, Apr. 2006 - Mar. 2009 Master of Engineering in Computer Science, Apr. 2004 - Mar. 2006 Bachelor of Engineering in Information Science, Apr. 2000 - Mar. 2004 PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATION Fundamental Information Technology & Engineering [Ministry of International Trade & Industry; Japan] System Administrator [MITI; Japan] PRIZES 2009 Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science 2008 Travel Grant for CNS 2008 (Portland, USA) from The Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers 2008 Travel Grant for VSS 2008 (Florida, USA) from NEC C&C Foundation 2008 Research Internship Scholarship for distinct Ph.D. student (University of Tsukuba) 2007 Student Best Paper Award (ICONIP2007) 2007 Research Grant for distinct Ph. D student (University of Tsukuba) 2007 Distinguished Student Award from the department chair (University of Tsukuba) 2007 Research Internship Scholarship for distinct Ph.D. student (University of Tsukuba) 2006 Research Grant for distinct Ph. D student (University of Tsukuba)
2006 Travel Grant for The Workshop on Mechanism of Brain and Mind, The Summer Workshop 2006 (Hokkaido Japan) from Japanese Neural Network Society. 2006 Travel Grant for ICONIP 2006 (Hong Kong) from International Information Science Foundation. 2004 Attendance & Travel grant for Okinawa Computational Neuroscience Course 2004 (OCNC2004). BIRTH PLACE & YEAR : Miyagi, Japan, 1980 NATIONALITY : Japan MARIAGE STATUS : Unmarried
Publications Nobuhiko Wagatsuma RIKEN Brain Science Institute Research Fellow of the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science September 14 th, 2009 Refereed International Journals Journal of Vision (Perceptual Organization and Neural Computation), 2008, Vol.8, Num.7, 22 Impact Factor for 2007: 3.791 Referred International Proceedings Spatial Attention in Early Vision Alternates Direction-of-Figure Lecture Note in Computer Science, 2006, Vol. 4232, p.219-227 (ICONIP 2006) Effect of Spatial Attention in Early Vision for the Modulation of the Perception of Border-Ownership N. Wagatsuma, R. Shimizu, and K. Sakai Lecture Note in Computer Science, 2008, Vol. 4984, p.348-357 (ICONIP 2007) Abstracts of International Conference Attention Effect in Early Vision for the Modulation of Border-Ownership N. Wagatsuma, M. Oki and K. Sakai Beijing International Symposium on Computational Neuroscience, 2009 (Beijing, China) Independent of Space-based and Feature-based Attention in the Determination of Figure Direction Seventeenth Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting, CNS*2008, 2008 (Oregon, USA) Bio Med Central Neuroscience 2008, Num.9, P116 (Computational Neuroscience Meeting: Abstracts) Contrast Modulation by Spatial Attention for the Perception of Figure Directions
Vision Science Society 2008, 2008 (Florida, USA), Journal of Vision, vol.8, Num.6, 882 (Vision Sciences Society Meeting, 2008: Abstracts) Surrounding Modulation Reproduces the Robust Perception of Border-ownership Including Gestalt Factors K. Sakai, H. Nishimura, N. Wagatsuma and R. Shimizu Annual Meeting, Society for Neuroscience, 2007 (San Diego, USA) Effect of Spatial Attention in Early Vision for the Modulation of the Perception of Border-Ownership The 14 th International Conference on Neural Information Processing 2007 (Kitakyushu, Japan), ICONIP 2007 p.207, TAE-1 Computational and Systems Neuroscience 2007 (Salt Lake City, Utah, USA), Cosyne 2007 p.76, II-3 Spatial Attention in Early Vision Alternates Direction-of-Figure The 13 th International Conference on Neural Information Processing 2006 (Hong Kong, China), Final Program p.67, WB402-4 The Fourth Asian Conference on Vision, 2006 (Matsue, Japan) VISION (The Journal of Vision Society of Japan), Vol. 18, p.142 PRIZES 2009 Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science 2008 Travel Grant for CNS 2008 (Portland, USA) from The Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers 2008 Travel Grant for VSS 2008 (Florida, USA) from NEC C&C Foundation 2008 Research Internship Scholarship for distinct Ph.D. student (University of Tsukuba)
2007 Student Best Paper Award (ICONIP2007) 2007 Research Grant for distinct Ph. D student (University of Tsukuba) 2007 Distinguished Student Award from the department chair (University of Tsukuba) 2007 Research Internship Scholarship for distinct Ph.D. student (University of Tsukuba) 2006 Research Grant for distinct Ph. D student (University of Tsukuba) 2006 Travel Grant for The Workshop on Mechanism of Brain and Mind, The Summer Workshop 2006 (Hokkaido Japan) from Japanese Neural Network Society. 2006 Travel Grant for ICONIP 2006 (Hong Kong) from International Information Science Foundation. 2004 Attendance & Travel grant for Okinawa Computational Neuroscience Course 2004 (OCNC2004).