Kazuya Horibe

Kazuya Horibe

Special Postdoctoral Researchers

RIKEN CBS

Biography

Kazuya Horibe is currently a Special Postdoctoral Researchers in RIKEN CBS. He is studying computational biology, artificial life in the graduate school of Osaka University, after finished Bachelor’s degree in biological science in Osaka University and Master’s degree in information science in Osaka University. He is received Ph.D. from Osaka University.

Interests

  • Neural networks
  • Morphogenesis
  • Pattern dynamics
  • Evolution
  • Artificial life
  • Urban planning theory

Education

  • D.Sci. Biological Science, Supervisor:Koichi Fujimoto, 2021

    Osaka University

  • Complex Systems Summer School, 2019

    Santa Fe Institute

  • M.Eng. Information Scienece and Technology,Supervisor:Taro Maeda, 2018

    Osaka University

  • B.Sc. Biological Science,Supervisor:Koichi Fujimoto, 2016

    Osaka University

Publications

(see also Google Citation and ResearchGate)

Journal papers (Refereed)

  1. Nakata, Y., Ban, M., Yamaki, R., Horibe, K., Takahashi, H., & Ishiguro, H., "Exploring the eating experience of a pneumatically-driven edible robot: Perception, taste, and texture. ",
    Plos one, 19(2), e0296697. (2024)
  2. Horibe, K., Taga, G., & Fujimoto, K., "Geodesic theory of long association fibers arrangement in the human fetal cortex",
    Cerebral Cortex, 33(17), 9778-9786. (2023)
  3. Horibe, K., Walker, K., Palm, RB., Sudhakaran, S., and Risi, S. "Severe damage recovery in evolving soft robots through differentiable programming",
    Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines, 1-22. (2022)
  4. Matsushita, K., Horibe, K., Kamamoto, N., & Fujimoto, K. "Cell Motion Alignment as a Polarity Memory Effect",
    Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 88(10), 103801. (2019)
  5. Horibe, K., Hironaka, K., Matsushita, K., and Fujimoto, K., "Curved surface geometry-induced topological change of an excitable planar wavefront",
    Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journalof Nonlinear Science, vol. 29, no. 9, p. 093 120, 2019 (2019)

International Conferences (Refereed)

  1. Horibe, K. and Yoshida, N., “Emergence of Implicit World Models from Mortal Agents””,
    The Intrinsically Motivated Open-ended Learning workshop at NeurIPS 2024 (2024)
  2. Sato, M., Minato, T., Funayama, T., Sumioka, H., Sakai, K., Mikata, R., Ishiguro, H., Horibe, K., Kikuchi, A., & Sakuma, K.,"EAnalysis of heart-to-heart communication with robot using transfer entropy. ",
    In In 2024 33rd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (ROMAN) (pp. 75-82). IEEE. (2024)
  3. Horibe, K., Suzuki, K., Horii, T., & Ishiguro, H.,"Exploring the adaptive behaviors of particle lenia: A perturbation-response analysis for computational agency.",
    In Artificial Life Conference Proceedings 35 (Vol. 2023, No. 1, p. 40). (2023)
  4. Horibe, K., Walker, K., & Risi, S. "Regenerating Soft Robots through Neural Cellular Automata",
    Genetic Programming: 24th European Conference, EuroGP 2021, Held as Part of EvoStar 2021, Virtual Event, April 7--9, 2021, Proceedings, p.36 (2021)
  5. Matsushita, K., Horibe, K., Kamamoto, N., & Fujimoto, K., “Cell migration driven byreceptor density polarity of cell-matrix adhesion”,
    Proceedings of the Symposium on Simulation ofTraffic Flow, vol. 24, pp. 5–8 (2018)

Presentations

International Conference (Oral)

  1. Horibe, K. and Yoshida, N., “Acquisition of implicit world models via domain adaptation in homeostatic meta-reinforcement learning”,
    Theoretical and Experimental Approaches to Goal-Directed Behavior , Bipain, Oct., 2024
  2. Horibe, K., Walker, K., & Risi, S. "Regenerating Soft Robots through Neural Cellular Automata",
    Genetic Programming: 24th European Conference, EuroGP 2021, Held as Part of EvoStar 2021, Virtual Event, April 7--9, 2021, Proceedings, p.36 (2021)
  3. K. Horibe,K. Hironaka,K. Matsushita,K. Fujimoto, "The surface geometry of cerebral cortex induces topological changes of cortical traveling waves",
    4th HBP Student Conference on Interdisciplinary Brain Research, Pisa. Italy. Jan. 2020

International Conference (Poster)

  1. Horibe, K. and Yoshida, N., “Emergence of Implicit World Models from Mortal Agents””,
    The Intrinsically Motivated Open-ended Learning workshop at NeurIPS 2024, Vancouver, Canada. December. 2024
  2. Horibe, K., “Toward the Biology of Cognition: Organizing the Relationship between Autopoiesis and Agency”,
    Aware and Alive (ASSC27 Satellite Symposium), Sapporo, Japan. July. 2024
  3. Horibe, K., Ban,M., and Suzuki, K., “Investigating the effects of chaotic aperiodicity on flicker light-triggered hallucinatory phenomena”,
    Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, Tokyo, Japan. July. 2024
  4. K. Horibe,G. Taga,K. Fujimoto, "How are long-range association fibers developed?: Estimation of neural propagation by shortest paths on the cortical surface",
    EMBL Symposium: Mechanobiology in development and disease, Heidelberg. Germany. June. 2022
  5. K. Horibe,K. Hironaka,K. Matsushita,K. Fujimoto, "The surface geometry of living things induces a topological change of a chemical traveling wave during morphogenesis",
    EMBL-IBEC Winter Conference, Barcelona. Spain. Feb. 2020
  6. K. Horibe,K. Hironaka,K. Matsushita,K. Fujimoto, "The surface geometry of cerebral cortex induces topological changes of cortical traveling waves",
    4th HBP Student Conference on Interdisciplinary Brain Research, Pisa. Italy. Jan. 2020
  7. K. Horibe,K. Hironaka,K. Matsushita,K. Fujimoto, "Curvature-driven splitting of a planar travelling wave",
    Patterns and Waves 2016 ,P-28, Hokkaido. Japan. Aug. 2016

Seminar

  1. "Long association fibers emerge from minimizing connectivity on the geometry of the human fetal brain"
    Cognitive Neuroanatomy Lab, Labseiminar, Online,14th Jun. 2022
  2. "Surface geometry-induced splitting of traveling wave" 数理科学セミナー, Hokkaido Uni.,21th Nov. 2018
  3. "How surface geometry controls neuronal signal propagation on cerebral cortex"
    Tani Lab. Seminar,OIST,15th Dec. 2018

Symposia organized

  1. "Evolution, Criticality and Creativity in Collective Intelligence",
    Artificial Life 2024,Copenhagen,July, 2024
  2. "Artificial Life and Artificial Consciousness in the Era of Large-Scale, High-Quality Generative AI",
    JSAI 2024,Kumamoto,June, 2024
  3. "Asethetics in Mathematical Biology",
    29th JSMB,Tokyo,15th Sep. 2019

Arts

Tachihokoru

  • WRO BIENNALE, Wroclaw, Poland, 2019

  • Art Hack Day, Tokyo, Japan, 2018

Work&Teaching

Work Experience

  • June 1, 2020 - December 31, 2020
    CrossLabs, Kyoto, Japan, Topic: Neural Centralization

  • October 1, 2019 - April 30, 2020
    IT University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, Topic: Regenerating soft robots

  • November 1, 2017 - March 10, 2018
    noizarchitects, Tokyo, Japan, Topic: Urban planning theory

  • March 15, 2017 - April 8, 2017
    noizarchitects, Tokyo, Japan, Topic: Automatic drawing, Computational design

Teaching

  • April 9, 2019 - Jun, 2019
    Fundamentals of Computer Organization, TA, Osaka Uni.
  • April 9, 2019 - August, 2019
    Basic Modern Life Science, TA, Osaka Uni.
  • December 13, 2018 - December 14, 2018
    Student Laboratory (Computational Biology), TA, Osaka Uni.
  • April 9, 2018 - Augusut 8, 2018
    Basic Modern Life Science, TA, Osaka Uni.
  • September 25, 2017 - September 30, 2017
    Marine Biology Field Work (Shirahama), Chemistry - Biology Combined Major Program, TA, Osaka Uni.

Awards

Award

Science
  • April, 2014
    Best Performance Prize
    Best performance in Honors Seminar for presentation of “Determination of lifespan by neural activity”

  • November, 2013
    Best Performance Prize
    Best performance in Honors Seminar for presentation of “Structure and function of copper-containing proteins derived from highly thermophilic bacteria”

Art

Grant

Crowdfunding