Members
Shuntaro Sasai, Ph.D.
Chief Research Officer
After graduating from the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Tokyo in 2008, he received his Ph.D. in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Tokyo in 2013. Since 2013, he is a member of the Center for Sleep and Consciousness at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. His research interests are in understanding the brain-consciousness relationship and developing brain-machine interface techniques enabling cross-brain communications. Currently, he focuses on modeling the brain’s wiring architectures supporting conscious experience and cognitive functions.
Chiaki Michibayashi
Junior Business Development Manager
Chiaki is a Junior Business Development Manager in Araya. After graduating from Hokkaido University in 2011, she received her M.Sci. in Kyoto University in 2013.
She worked as a researcher and business developer in Dermatology, Oral health care for 9 years in a consumables manufacturer company. She joined Araya in 2022. Now she focuses on business development in neuroscience.
Tomoya Nakai
Chief Researcher
Tomoya received his Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo, Graduate school of Arts and Sciences in 2017. After postdoctoral research at National Institute of Information and Communications Technology and French National Institute of Health and Medical Research, he joined Araya in 2023. His research interests include computational models and neural bases of higher cognitive functions, with a particular focus on mathematics and language.