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Yagi Lab
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A neural engineering lab that applies the mechanisms of the brain, nerves, and vision to engineering.
AboutAbout the lab
Learning from the brain and nerves to advance engineering.
The Yagi Lab studies biomedical engineering, particularly neural engineering, focusing on the human brain, nerves, vision, and biosignals.
The lab aims to understand the mechanisms of the brain and vision and the principles of computation behind them, and to apply that knowledge to medical engineering such as rehabilitation and to biomimetic robots.
Currently, the lab is developing "neural interfaces" that connect nerves directly to computers.
The lab's motto is "Jishu-Jitoku" (learning and achieving through one's own initiative), and it expects students to take the initiative.
Key terms
- Biomedical engineering
- A field that uses engineering technology to study how the bodies of living things work and to create medical devices and technologies.
- Neural interface
- A technology that connects the nervous system directly to a computer and exchanges signals between them.
- Brain-computer interface
- A system that reads brain signals such as brain waves and uses them to operate machines or computers.
NewsLab news
A master's student received an award at the IEEJ Electronics, Information and Systems Society Conference
A master's student received the Excellent Poster Award at the IEEJ Electronics, Information and Systems Society Conference
A master's student received the Excellent Presentation Award at the IEEJ Tokyo Branch Student Research Presentation Meeting
A master's student received the Best Oral Presentation Award at the international student workshop MISW
Single-molecule sensing demonstrated with a nanopore combining DNA and peptides
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies the human brain, nerves, vision, and biosignals, combining engineering and biomedical experiments. Based on neuroscience, it aims to develop neural interfaces and apply them to biomimetic robots.
*Illustrative imageNeural interfaces and cell engineering
This research covers technologies that connect nerves directly to computers and technologies for handling cells. The lab has worked on fabricating muscle cell sheets, DNA nanotubes that open and close with ultrasound, and neural probes.
*Illustrative imageMeasuring biosignals and stimulating the body
This research measures and analyzes biosignals such as brain waves (EEG) and muscle activity. The lab has studied brain-computer interfaces that use EEG recorded while a person imagines movement, and the brain's response to ultrasound transmitted through bone.
*Illustrative imageRobot eyes and image processing inspired by living things
This research applies the visual mechanisms of living things to robot eyes and image processing. Projects include a system that makes sound information intuitively visible, and work that applies fixation (the mechanism of holding the gaze steady) to machine vision.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Yagi Lab are faculty members, doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students, and collaborators.As of 2026
- ProfessorTohru YagiPublications ↗
- Assistant ProfessorZugui PengPublications ↗
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Report an errorAbout the images
The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Axons Al Dente” MikeRoscopy / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Neural interfaces and cell engineering: “Hippocampal neurons in culture” Guarnieri Fabrizia / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Measuring biosignals and stimulating the body: “CeeGRID” Stefan Debener / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Robot eyes and image processing inspired by living things: “Fundus photograph-normal retina EDA06” National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (高橋研究室): “Rice terraces, Yamakoshi, Niigata” yoshi s / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (三浦研究室): “WBAMC first in DoD to use robot for surgery 160426-A-EK666-526” Marcy Sanchez / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (中西・中条研究室): “Canadarm2 during Expedition 62 (ISS062-E-055099)” NASA / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (伊井研究室): “Aneurysma A cerebri media” Hellerhoff / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
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