Kazuya Horibe

Kazuya Horibe

Specially Appointed Assistant Professor

Osaka University

Biography

Kazuya Horibe is currently a Specially Appointed Assistant Professor in Intelligent Robotics Lab, Osaka University. 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

News

Schedule

2023

2022

~2021

Publications

(see also Google Citation and ResearchGate)

Journal papers (Refereed)

  1. 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)
  2. 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)
  3. 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., 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)
  2. 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., 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)
  2. 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. 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
  2. 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
  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
  4. 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. "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

Slides

210408EuroGP from Kazuya Horibe
200303_A scalable pipeline for designing reconfigurable organisms from Kazuya Horibe
Curved surface geometry-induced topological change of an excitable planar wavefront from Kazuya Horibe
Morphogenesis in robot swarms from Kazuya Horibe