I am currently a second-year Master's student in the Biomedical Engineering program at Northwestern University, supervised by Dr. Marc Slutzky and co-supervised by Dr. Joshua Glaser. I completed my bachelor's thesis at Meiji University under the guidance of Dr. Yumie Ono, while also gaining experience as a research assistant at the University at Buffalo (SUNY Buffalo) and the University of Lincoln under Dr. Anirban Dutta.

My main research focus lies in understanding brain functions to design novel computational tools for decoding/encoding neural activity for applications such as neuroprosthetics and neurorehabilitation. For my master's thesis, I am currently investigating neural signatures associated with speech intent in non-frontal brain regions, aiming to decode distinctive phoneme features and ultimately establish a speech brain-computer interface (BCI) for aphasic patients with frontal lobe damage. My previous projects include developing objective metrics for surgical skill assessment (Manabe et al. 2022, 2023, 2024) and studying effective connectivity in stroke neurorehabilitation (Manabe et al. 2023 and Kanaizuka et al. 2023).