Taro Toyoizumi, PhD

Taro Toyoizumi is the Team Leader at the RIKEN Center for Brain Science. He received his B.S. in Physics from the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2001, followed by his M.S. and Ph.D. in Computational Neuroscience from the University of Tokyo in 2003 and 2006, respectively. After completing his doctoral studies, he joined the Center for Theoretical Neuroscience at Columbia University as a JSPS and Patterson Trust Postdoctoral Fellow. In 2010, Toyoizumi was appointed as a Special Postdoctoral Researcher at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute and was promoted to Laboratory Head the following year. He undertook his current position at RIKEN in 2018 and was also named an adjunct professor at the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology at the University of Tokyo in 2019. He has served as a Co-Editor-in-Chief of Neural Networks from 2022. Taro Toyoizumi's research focuses on the computational principles underlying the experience-based organization of neural circuits. Among his honors are the International Neural Network Society's Young Investigator Award in 2008, the Commendation for Science and Technology by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) of Japan, the Young Scientists' Prize in 2016, and RIKEN Baihou-prize in 2023.