Genji Kawakita

Be.Neural Lab

Imperial College London

London, UK

I am a PhD student in Bioengineering at Imperial College London, working in the Be.Neural Lab under the supervision of Dr. Juan A. Gallego.

My research focuses on computational neuroscience, studying neural dynamics and motor control. I am interested in understanding how the brain controls movement and adapts to changes.

Previously, I worked as a Project Researcher at the University of Tokyo in the Oizumi Lab, where I developed computational frameworks for quantifying brain state transitions and studying the structure of subjective experience using optimal transport methods.

I received my BA in Mathematics from Swarthmore College with minors in Computer Science and Cognitive Science.

selected publications

iScience

Is my "red" your "red"?: Evaluating structural correspondences between color similarity judgments using unsupervised alignment

Genji Kawakita, Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston, Ken Takeda, and 2 more authors

iScience, 2025

Bib

@article{kawakita2025isciencered,
  title = {Is my "red" your "red"?: Evaluating structural correspondences between color similarity judgments using unsupervised alignment},
  author = {Kawakita, Genji and Zeleznikow-Johnston, Ariel and Takeda, Ken and Tsuchiya, Naotsugu and Oizumi, Masafumi},
  journal = {iScience},
  volume = {28},
  pages = {112029},
  year = {2025},
}

Sci. Rep.

Gromov-Wasserstein unsupervised alignment reveals structural correspondences between the color similarity structures of humans and large language models

Genji Kawakita, Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston, Naotsugu Tsuchiya, and 1 more author

Scientific Reports, 2024

Bib

@article{kawakita2024scirep,
  title = {Gromov-Wasserstein unsupervised alignment reveals structural correspondences between the color similarity structures of humans and large language models},
  author = {Kawakita, Genji and Zeleznikow-Johnston, Ariel and Tsuchiya, Naotsugu and Oizumi, Masafumi},
  journal = {Scientific Reports},
  volume = {14},
  pages = {15917},
  year = {2024},
}

Net. Neurosci.

Quantifying brain state transition cost via Schrödinger Bridge

Genji Kawakita, Shunsuke Kamiya, Shuntaro Sasai, and 2 more authors

Network Neuroscience, 2022

Bib

@article{kawakita2022netneurosci,
  title = {Quantifying brain state transition cost via Schr{\"o}dinger Bridge},
  author = {Kawakita, Genji and Kamiya, Shunsuke and Sasai, Shuntaro and Kitazono, Jun and Oizumi, Masafumi},
  journal = {Network Neuroscience},
  volume = {6},
  number = {1},
  pages = {118--134},
  year = {2022},
}