Members
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● Kohei NAKAJIMA Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Nonlinear dynamical systems, Information theory, Soft robotics
Research Topic: Physical Reservoir Computing: Pursuing the Nature of Information Processing
Short Introduction
Many varieties of dynamics can be found occurring naturally everywhere in our daily life. Kohei has been pursuing the technology to exploit these dynamics as a computational resource. For example, at ETH Zurich he has shown that the dynamics generated by a soft material can be used for conducting certain types of computation. The results imply that these physical dynamics possess information-processing capacities. In the Hakubi project, he will build on his previous technique, aiming to develop a "fluid computer," which exploits fluid dynamics as a computational device. His long-term research goal is to establish a theoretical framework that reveals the relationship between physical dynamics and their information-processing capacity, and to develop a novel information processing technology.
Latest News
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May. 27, 2015
Kohei Nakajima published "Information processing via physical soft body" in Scientific Reports.
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May. 13, 2015
Kohei Nakajima published "Measuring information transfer in a soft robotic arm" in Bioinspiration & Biomimetics.
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Sep. 4, 2014
Kohei Nakajima published ''Exploiting short-term memory in soft body dynamics as a computational resource'' in J. R. Soc. Interface
