AUBERT KATO NATHANAEL YANN IVAN


Position

Associate Professor

Affiliation

Faculty of Core Research Natural Sciences Division

Headquarters for Research and Innovation, Research Advancement Division, Education and Research Department Center for integrates the humanities and sciences, AI and Data Science

Faculty

Information Sciences

Education Organization (Master's Program)

Computer Science

Education Organization (Doctoral Program)

Department of Computer Science

URL

写真a

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Research Keywords 【 display / non-display 】

  • DNA computing; Molecular programming; Micro-robots; Evolutionary optimization; Swarming behavior

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Research Pursuits 【 display / non-display 】

  • My current research pursuit is the implementation of controllers (i.e., computers) for molecular robots. This topic involves a large range of interests, ranging from the design and implementation of complex non-linear reaction systems to the exploration and optimization of reservoir computing systems characteristics. I am also applying machine learning techniques broadly to the analysis of biological data.

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Educational Pursuits 【 display / non-display 】

  • - Exercises in Programming (1st year; mandatory). This class aims to bring students to fluency in the C programming language through hands-on experience.
    - Software Engineering (3rd year; elective). Focuses on best practices in software development and on how to work efficiently as a team.
    - Exercises in Information Sciences Ⅳ (3rd year; elective). The aim of this class is to give students direct experience with working in a research lab. The supervision is shared among all professors of the department.
    - Advanced Topics on Unconventional Computing/Seminar on Unconventional Computing (Graduate). The aim of those classes is to introduce students to advanced topic related to unconventional computing, including formal definitions of computing systems and how to implement them in system-specific settings.

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Future Research Plans, Research Prospects, and Joint Research Potential 【 display / non-display 】

  • Future work will focus on a systematic exploration of the range of characteristics of reservoirs found so far (memory capacity, kernel rank, generalization rank, ...), on the integration of such computing system with molecular robots (both in silico and in vitro), and on the implementation of hybrid quality-diversity algorithm able to use a combination of real-world experimental data and simulations to suggest optimized system designs.

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Degree 【 display / non-display 】

  • PhD (Information Science and Technology Science), The University of Tokyo, 2014.03

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Campus Career 【 display / non-display 】

  • Campus Educational System Reform Division Promotion Center of Leading Graduate School, Project Assistant Professor, 2014.09 - 2016.01

  • Faculty of Core Research Natural Sciences Division, Assistant Professor, 2017.03 - 2021.03

  • Headquarters for Research and Innovation, Research Advancement Division, Education and Research Department Center for integrates the humanities and sciences, AI and Data Science Center for Interdisciplinary AI and Data Science, Member, 2019.04 -

  • Faculty of Core Research Natural Sciences Division, Lecturer, 2021.04 - 2025.03

  • Faculty of Core Research Natural Sciences Division, Associate Professor, 2025.04 -

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Research Field 【 display / non-display 】

  • Informatics / Informatics / Life, health and medical informatics

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Books 【 display / non-display 】

  • Molecular Robotics: An Introduction

    Design Theory of Molecular Robots, Springer Nature, 2022.08, KAWAMATA Ibuki, KOBAYASHI Satoshi, KOMIYA Ken, NAKAKUKI Takashi, AUBERT-KATO Nathanael, AZUMA Shun-ichi, GUTMANN Gregory, KONAGAYA Akihiko, YAMAUCHI Yukiko, SUZUKI Yasuhiro, SUGAWARA Ken, MURATA Satoshi, Scholarly book, 13-58

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Papers 【 display / non-display 】

  • Signalling and social learning in swarms of robots

    Philosophical Transactions A, The Royal Society, , vol.383(2289), 2025.01, CAZENILLE Leo, TOQUEBIAU Maxime, LOBATO-DAUZIER Nicolas, LOI Alessia, MACABRE Loona, AUBERT-KATO Nathanael, GENOT Anthony, BREDECHE Nicolas, Original, Research paper (scientific journal), Coauthor

  • Neural coding of temperature with a DNA-based spiking chemical neuron

    Nature Chemical Engineering, Nature Publishing Group, , vol.1(8)(p.510 - 521), 2024.08, LOBATO-DAUZIER Nicolas, BACCOUCHE Alexandre, GINES Guillaume, LEVI Timothee, RONDELEZ Yannick, FUJII Teruo, KIM Soo Hyeon, AUBERT-KATO Nathanael, GENOT Anthony, Original, Research paper (scientific journal), Capital Author

  • Machine-learning-based prediction of DNA structure volume for Quality-Diversity exploration

    ALIFE 2024: Proceedings of the 2024 Artificial Life Conference, MIT Press, (p.101 - 103), 2024.07, HYAKUZUKA Maya, AUBERT-KATO Nathanael, Original, Research paper (international conference proceedings), Capital Author

  • Analysis of Pruned Deep Models Trained with Neuroevolution

    Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion, ACM, (p.591 - 594), 2024.07, DA ROLD Federico, CAZENILLE Leo, AUBERT-KATO Nathanael, Original, Research paper (international conference proceedings), Capital Author

  • Exploration of Reservoir Properties in Molecular Computing Systems

    2024 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), IEEE, (p.1 - 8), 2024.06, AUBERT-KATO Nathanael, ITO Mika, Original, Research paper (international conference proceedings), Capital Author

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Presentations 【 display / non-display 】

  • FBGANによる情報のエンコード及び保存用仮想DNA配列の合成

    奥村　真由・オベル加藤　ナタナエル, Domestic, Oral presentation (general), 2025.03, , 第8回分子ロボティクス年次大会, Not Invited, Coauthor

  • Reservoir computing with molecular swarms

    AUBERT-KATO Nathanael, International, Public lecture, seminar, tutorial, course, or other speech, 2025.03, , Workshop on interdisciplinary approach on collective adaptive systems, Not Invited, Main Speaker

  • Pattern formation in tissue-like arrays of droplets with thermosensitive biochemical switches and clocks

    LOBATO-DAUZIER Nicolas, DETEIX Remi, OKUMURA Shu , BACCOUCHE Alexandre, GINES Guillaume, RONDELEZ Yannick, KIM Soo-Hyeon, FUJII Teruo, AUBERT-KATO Nathanael, ESTEVEZ-TORRES Andre, GALAS Jean-Christophe, GENOT Anthony, International, Oral presentation (general), 2024.11, , GDR MNF2024, Not Invited, Coauthor

  • Molecular Swarms for Collective Cargo Sorting

    AUBERT-KATO Nathanael, International, Oral presentation (invited, special), 2024.11, , Gel Sympo 2024, Invited, Main Speaker

  • Hearing the shape of an arena with spectral swarm robotics

    CAZENILLE Leo, LOBATO-DAUZIER Nicolas, LOI Alessia, ITO Mika, MARCHAL Olivier, KIM Soo-Hyeon, AUBERT-KATO Nathanael, BREDECHE Nicolas, GENOT Anthony, International, Oral presentation (general), 2024.10, , ANTS 2024, Not Invited, Coauthor

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Receipt of outside funds (Education, Research, Contribution to Society and industry-academia[government] collaboration) 【 display / non-display 】

  • Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(A)2022, 2,500,000yen

  • 国際共同研究加速基金（国際共同研究強化(B)）2022, 2,500,000yen

  • Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(C)2022, 1,200,000yen

  • Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows2022, 650,000yen

  • 特別研究員奨励費（外国人）2021, 700,000yen

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Open lectures; lectures, courses, and seminars; guest lectures; etc. 【 display / non-display 】

  • DNA Computing

    2012.09, Japonder

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Media coverage, appearances, commentary, etc. 【 display / non-display 】

  • Engineering and Technology Magazine

    2014.01.22

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