Natsue Yoshimura is a Professor in the School of Computing and the Institute of Biomedical Engineering at the Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan. She received her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees after approximately nine years in industry.
Her research lies at the intersection of neuroengineering, computational neurophysiology, and human-computer interaction. She investigates how non-invasive neural and physiological signals can reveal human internal states not directly observable from behavior, aiming to develop technologies that enhance human well-being and benefit society and science. Her work focuses on neural representations of perception, movement, learning, and subjective experience, and their application to human-computer interaction, including brain-computer interfaces. Recent topics include auditory perception, motor control and learning, aging and fall risk, sensory processing, and human adaptation.
She currently serves as a Project Manager in Japan’s Moonshot Research and Development Program, Goal 3, leading a project on motion-assist robots that infer human states. She has also led or participated in JST PRESTO, JST FOREST, a Japan–U.S. Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience project, and industry collaborations.
She serves as a Senior Program O fficer at the Research Center for Science Systems, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), and as a board member of the Japan Neural Network Society and the Japanese Society for Motor Control. She is also a judge for the NEDO Challenge, Exploring Neurotech New Markets.