Rate My Professor Junichi Ushiba

Junichi Ushiba is a Professor in the Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Biosciences and Informatics at Keio University. He graduated from the Keio University Faculty of Science and Technology in 2001 and received his Ph.D. in Engineering from Keio University in 2004. His career at Keio University includes positions as a research associate from 2004, lecturer, associate professor since 2012, and current role as professor. He has also held concurrent appointments at the Keio University School of Medicine and served as a guest researcher at Aalborg University in Denmark in 2003. Ushiba's research focuses on neuroscience, rehabilitation medical science, motor control and motor learning, neuroimaging, and time series biosignal analysis, with particular emphasis on brain-machine interfaces for neurorehabilitation. He has contributed chapters to books including Augmented Human (2018), Financial Gerontology (2017), and works on neurorehabilitation and neuroscience for rehabilitation. Ushiba serves on committees and boards including the Japanese Society for Motor Control since 2016 and the Executive and Scientific Board of the Clinical Brain-Machine Interface Society since 2015, and has received awards such as the Excellence Award at BRAVE 2017.