Welcome to Nakagawa & Otsuka Lab., Center for Frontier Medical Engineering, Chiba Univ.!

　Prof. Nakagawa had been working in the National Institute for Advance Industrial  Science and Technology (AIST), and became a professor at Chiba Univ. in July 2016.

  Prof. Nakagawa has been studying about perception mechanisms of humans, mainly audition, using various techniques; non-invasive neurophysiological measurements like MEG, EEG and other electrophysiological recordings, psychological measurements, physical measurements, and numerical simulations. Further, Prof. Nakagawa is applying knowledge and information obtained in the basic research on the perception mechanisms to developments of medical and welfare devices, optimization of audio-visual environments, and evaluation and "sound design" of sound noises.

What's new

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• Mr. Riki Ogino was given the Best Student Paper Award from The Acoustical Society of Japan (2018.12.11)
• Our latest achievement was published online in Neurosciece Letters（2018.12）
• We had 9 presentations in the Young Researchers Meeting of Kanto Branch, Japan Society for Medical and Biological Engineering. Mr. Koichiro Doi, a B4 student, was given the Best Student Paper Award (2018.12.1, @Tokyo, Japan）
• We had a presentation in IS 3T-in-3A．Mr. Riki Ogino, a M1 student, was given the Best Student Paper Award First Prize （2018.11.22-25, @Taiwan）
• We had a presentation in the Meeting on Psychological and Psysiological Acoustics, the Acoustical Society of Japan. Mr. Masaki Gogami, our member at AIST-Kansai, was given the best paper award (2018.11.21-22，@Wajima, Ishikawa, Japan）
• The 16th Symposium on Medical Engineering was held. Prof Nakagawa served as the Secretary General （2018.11.20，@Chiba, Japan）
• We had 3 presentations in the Symposium of the Institute for Global Prominent Research, Chiba University. Ms. Gaik Sean Yap was given the Best Paper Award  (2018.11.6)
• We had 2 presentation in the Symposium pn Ultrasonic Electronics (USE2018)（2018.10.29-10.31）
• We had 3 presentations including an invited lecture, in the Tohoku Universal Acoustical Communication Month 2018 （2018.11.22-11.26）
• Six B3 students joined in the lab (2018.10.1)
• Our latest achievement was published in Acta Acustica united with Acustica（2018.9）
  
  
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• Prof. Sho Otsuka and Dr. Akinari Onishi adopted for the Funding Program for the Grant-in-Aid for Young Researchers(2018.4.1)
• Mr. Riki Ogino was given the Best Graduation Thesis Award from Department of Medical Engineering, Chiba University (2018.3.23)
• Shohomi Uzawa (Kobe Univ.) was given the Best Poster Award from the Speech Committee, The Insitute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers/the Acoustical Society of Japan (2017.8)
• Ms. Miyu Nakamae (B4) joined our lab. (2018.4.1)
• Sotaro Rachi (B4) was chosen as a member of National Deaf Soccer Team for the 4th Asia-Pacific Championship (2018.3.6)
  
  
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• We will have a presention on our latest achievements in the Biomagnetic Sendai (2017.5.22-24)
• We will have 4 presentions on our latest achievements in the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Medical and Biological Engineering held in Senda, Miyagi, May 3-5.
• The collective research project with Kinki Univ. was adopted for the Funding Program for the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) (2017.4.1)
• Our research project was adopted for the Funding Program for the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) (2017.4.1)
• Dr. Akinari Onishi joined our lab. as a Research Fellow (2017.4.1)
• Dr. Sho Otsuka was awarded  Itakura Prize Innovative Young Researcher Award from the Acoustical Society of Japan (2017.3.16).
• We had 6 presentions on our latest achievements in the 2017 Spring Meeting of the Acoustical Society of Japan, held in Kawasaki, Kanagawa, March 15-17.
• Prof. Nakagawa gave an invited lecture at the meeting of Child-raising Enginnering Research Group of the Japanese Society for Medical and Biological Engineering (JSMBE) held in Tokyo, March 9, 2017
• The anechoic chamber was comleted in our lab (2017.2.28)
• Dr. Sho Otsuka joined our lab. as an Assistant Professor (2017.2.27)
• The oral diffence of the undergraduate thesis was held (2017.2.13-14）
• The oral diffence of the master's thesis was held (2017.2.13-14）
• The 18th meeting of the Multi-modal Brain Imaging Research Group of the Japanese Society for Medical and Biological Engineering (JSMBE) was held in Tokyo, Jan 24, 2017
• The construction of an anechoic chamber has started in our lab.（2017.1.23）