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Research

• Publications
  • Journal Papers
    • Nakamura Y, Iriarte-Diaz J, Arce-McShane F, Orsbon CP, Brown KA, Eastment M, Avivi-Arber L, Sessle BJ, Inoue M, Hatsopoulos NG, Ross CF, Takahashi K., "Sagittal plane kinematics of the jaw and hyolingual apparatus during swallowing in Macaca mulatta", Dysphagia. 2017 May 20. doi: 10.1007/s00455-017-9812-4.
    • Kaiju T, Doi K, Yokota M, Watanabe K, Inoue M, Ando H, Takahashi K, Yoshida F, Hirata M, Suzuki T, "High Spatiotemporal resolution ECoG Recording of Somatosensory Evoked Potentials with Flexible Micro-Electrode Arrays", Front. Neural Circuits, 2017, 11:20. doi: 10.3389/fncir.2017.00020
    • Takahashi K, Best MD, Huh, N, Brown KA, Tobaa AA, Hatsopoulos NG, "Encoding of both reaching and grasping kinematics in dorsal and ventral premotor cortices", Journal of Neuroscience, 15 February 2017, 37 (7) 1733-1746; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1537-16.2016
    • Mochizuki Y, et al. (54 authors), "Similarity in Neuronal Firing Regimes across Mammalian Species", J Neurosci, 2016, 36(21): 5736-47, 2016, doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0230-16.2016
    • Arce-McShane F, Ross CF, Takahashi K, Sessle BJ, Hatsopoulos NG, "Functional connectivity in the orofacial sensorimotor cortex involves networks of reciprocal interaction at multiple frequencies", PNAS, 2016, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1600788113
    • Hinkel CJ, Sharma R, Thakkar MM, Takahashi K, Hopewell BL, Lever TE, "Neural mechanisms contributing to dysphagia in mouse models", Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, April 2016, doi:10.1177/0194599816640261
    • Lever T, Koganemaru S, Takahashi K, "Society for Neuroscience 2015 Satellite Symposium Neural Mechanisms of Feeding and Swallowing", Dysphagia 31(1):114-20 · February 2016, doi: 10.1007/s00455-016-9689-7
    • Best MD, Takahashi K, Suminski AJ, Ethier C, Miller LE, Hatsopoulos NG, "Comparing offline decoding performance in physiologically defined neuronal classes", J Neural Eng. 2016 Jan 29;13(2):026004
    • Best MD, Suminski AJ, Takahashi K, Brown KA, Hatsopoulos NG, "Spatio-temporal patterning in primary motor cortex at movement onset", Cerebral Cortex, Jan 2016, doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhv327
    • Vaidya M., Kording K., Saleh M., Takahashi K., Hatsopoulos N.G., "Neural coordination during reach-to-grasp", J Neurophys Published 29 July 2015 Vol. no. , DOI: 10.1152/jn.00349.2015
    • Takahashi K., Kim S., Coleman T.P., Brown K.A., Suminski A.J., Best M.D. & Hatsopoulos N.G., "Large-scale spatiotemporal spike patterning consistent with wave propagation in motor cortex", Nature Comm. 6, Article number: 7169 doi:10.1038/ncomms8169
    • Saleh M., Takahashi K., and Hatsopoulos N.G., "Encoding of coordinated reach and grasp trajectories in primary motor cortex", J Neurosci. 2012 Jan 25;32(4):1220-32.
    • Takahashi K., Saleh M., Penn R.D., and Hatsopoulos N.G., " Propagating waves in human motor cortex", Front Hum Neurosci. 2011;5:40.
    • Saleh M., Takahashi K., Amit Y. and Hatsopoulos N.G., "Encoding of coordinated grasp trajectories in primary motor cortex", J Neurosci. 2010 Dec 15;30(50):17079-90.
    • A. V. Roitman, S. G. Massaquoi, K. Takahashi and T. J. Ebner, Kinematic Analysis of Manual Tracking in Monkeys: Characterization of Movement Intermittencies During a Circular Tracking Task" , J Neurophysiol 91: 901-911, 2004.
  • Book chapters
    • Hatsopoulos N.G., Olmedo L., Takahashi K. (2010), "Proximal-to-distal sequencing behavior and motor cortex" in Motor Control: Theories, Experiments, and Applications, Danion, E. and Latash, M (Ed.), Oxford University Press
    • Jo S. and Takahashi K. (2010). , "Neurobiologically inspired distributed and hierarchical system for control and learning", in Biomimetics Learning From Nature, Amitava Mukherjee (Ed.), INTECH, ISBN: 978-953-307-025-4, (both authors contributed equally).
  • Peer reviewed conference papers
    • Takahashi K. , Pesce L., Best M., Iriarte-Diaz J., Kim S., Coleman T.P., Hatsopoulos N.G., and Ross C.F., "Granger causality analysis of state dependent functional connectivity of neurons in orofacial motor cortex during chewing and swallowing", presented and won the best paper award at IEEE the 6th International Conference on Soft Computing and Intelligent Systems , Kobe, Hyogo, Japan Nov., 2012
    • Takahashi K., Pesce L., Iriarte-Diaz J., Kim S., Coleman T.P., Hatsopoulos N.G., and Ross C.F., "Granger causality analysis of functional connectivity of spiking neurons in orofacial motor cortex during chewing and swallowing", presented at IEEE Conference Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, San Diego, CA., 2012
    • Kim S., Takahashi K., Hatsopoulos N.G. and Coleman, T. , "Information transfer between neurons in the motor cortex triggered by visual cues", IEEE EMBC, Boston, MA, 2011 Aug;2011:7278-81.
    • Takahashi K., Massaquoi S.G., "Neuroengineering Model of human limb control - gainscheduled feedback control approach", 46th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, New Orleans, LA., Dec., 2007
    • Massaquoi, S.G., Jo, S. and Takahashi, K., "Cerebro-cerebellar implementation of gainscheduled feedback control", 45th Annual Allerton Conference, Urbana-Champaign, IL 2007
  • Conference talks/posters/abstracts
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  • Ph.D Thesis, MIT, Feb 2007
  
  

Teaching

As a graduate student at MIT, I had TAed/been a recitation instructor for the following courses:

• 6.003 - Signals and Systems
• 6.011 - Introduction to Communication, Control, and Signal Processing
• 6.241 - Dynamic Systems and Control
• 16.333- Advanced Aircraft Control (Currently Aircraft Stability and Control)
• SMA 5221 - High Performance Computation

As a postdoc at U Chicago, I was an instructor for some lectures in the following course:

• ORGB 34800 - Evolutionary Biomechanics of Vertebrate Feeding Systems

Award

• MIT EECS - Frederick C. Hennie III Teaching Award (2002)
• MIT EECS - Department Special Recognition Award (2005)
• University of Chicago finalist for Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award at the Scientific Interface (2009)
• Best paper award (and nominated for best application award) at IEEE International conference on Soft computing and Intelligent systems / International symposium on Advanced intelligent systems, Kobe, Japan (2012)

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