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Translational Data Ability (Sakurai) Lab
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The lab analyzes the time evolution of large-scale data to predict the future.
AboutAbout the lab
Transforming society by predicting the future
Sakurai Lab studies technologies that use large-scale data to analyze, in real time, the time evolution of natural and social phenomena.
The lab develops pioneering technologies for optimizing social activities, and works to put them into practice in society while asking 'what technology is truly practical?'
Targeting IoT big data, the lab analyzes and learns the temporal changes of phenomena and activities with nonlinear dynamical models, discovers important patterns, and predicts future events.
Sakurai Lab belongs to the Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research at The University of Osaka, and is a cooperating chair (Intelligent Data Science Chair) of the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology.
Key terms
- IoT big data
- Large volumes of data obtained from various IoT devices and simulations
- Nonlinear dynamical model
- A mathematical model of phenomena that change over time, including relationships that cannot be expressed as simple proportionality
- Cooperating chair
- A system in which a lab belonging to the institute cooperates, as a graduate school chair, in guiding students
NewsLab news
Paper by Project Assistant Professor Ren Fujiwara and colleagues accepted to ICLR 2026
A master's student receives the DEIM2024 Excellent Paper Award
A professor and colleagues receive the Prize for Science and Technology (Research Category) in the FY2024 Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
Assistant Professor Koki Kawabata receives the Kambayashi Encouragement Award of the Database Society of Japan
A master's student receives the DEIM2024 Student Presentation Award
ResearchResearch themes
Sakurai Lab works on developing technologies that analyze, in real time, the time evolution of natural and social phenomena from large-scale data in order to optimize social activities. Through joint research with companies, it also works to transfer the developed technologies to industry.
View More ↗MembersFaculty
The members of Sakurai-Matsubara Lab consist of faculty members, project researchers, technical managers, project administrative staff, and doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students, including working professionals.As of 2026
- ProfessorYasushi Sakurai
- Project Associate ProfessorZheng Chen
- Assistant ProfessorKoki Kawabata
- Project Assistant ProfessorTasuku Kimura
- Project Assistant ProfessorRen Fujiwara
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