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Akane Sano
75 Amherst Street, E14-374B
Cambridge, MA, USA 02139
akanes@mit.edu
Research Interest
Data Mining, Signal Processing, Algorithm Development, Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition, Probabilistic
Models, Sensor Data analysis
Wearable Sensors, Social Computing, Pervasive computing, Affective Computing
Physiological signals , Non-invasive Monitoring
Well-being, Healthcare, Sleep, Circadian Rhythm
Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA September 2010 - Present
Ph. D student in Affective Computing Group, Media Lab
Program in Media Arts and Sciences
Research focuses on
-monitoring and analyzing multi-modal human related sensor data (daily sleep behaviors and social connections and
environmental data) with wearable sensors and mobile phones for mood detection and health care
-analyzing long-term day and sleep skin conductance, accelerometer and skin temperature data from wearable sensors in
daily lives
-develop android applications to record behaviors to help people with autism spectrum disorders
Keio University, Yokohama, Japan April 2003 - March 2005
Master of Engineering
Thesis: Properties of Electroencephrographic Activities associated with Movement Condition using Blind Source
Separation.
Keio University, Yokohama, Japan April 1999 - March 2003
Bachelor of Engineering
Thesis: Cortical Activation Analysis in Silent Speech using EEG.
Research Experience
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Media Lab, Affective Computing Group, Cambridge, MA September 2010 - Present
Supervisor: Rosalind W. Picard, Sc.D.
-Built automated tools and analyzed long-term autonomic sleep/behavioral patterns with a wearable sensor in healthy
and autism groups and in a memory consolidation task
-Developed Android based application for multi-modal annotation
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, Japan April 2005 - September 2011
-Analyzed sensor signals with data mining, pattern recognition and statistical techniques for interactive music system
and personal health care
- Developed models to estimate user’s mental status using non-invasive physiological and behavioral signals (PPG, ECG,
EMG and motion) and built music recommendation system based on user’s status
- Developed earphone style of wearable sensor device to measure PPG and EMG on ears
- Developed models and an interaction system to estimate users’ intentions using facial and speech signals and
conducted quantitative user experience and usability evaluation of the system
- Developed communication application with life log recorded from physiological and environmental sensors
Aalborg University
Center for Sensory Motor Interaction, Aalborg, Denmark August 2004 - March 2005
Lab Chief: Thomas Sinjaer, Ph.D.
-Analyzed coherence between EEG and EMG during posture adjustment
RIKEN, Brain Science Institute
Laboratory for Advanced Brain Signal Processing, Wako, Japan June 2003 - March 2005

Lab Chief: Andrzej Cichocki, Ph.D.
-Analyzed Electroencephalography (high-density EEG studies of physiological human brain functions)
- Classified EEG for Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) with four-limb imaginary movements
- Measured EEG and Analyzed with Independent component analysis
Keio University, Laboratory for Biomedical Engineering, Yokohama, Japan April 2002 - March 2005
Supervisor: Professor Tomita Yutaka, Ph. D., DMSc.
- Designed experiments and Measured and Analyzed EEG in rhythmic and non-rhythmic, self-paced and cue-guided,
actual and imaginary movements
- Analyzed EEG in Speech generation
Work Experience
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Media Lab, Affective Computing Group, Cambridge, MA August 2010 - Present
Research Assistant
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA June 2012 - August 2012
Graduate engineering intern at the perceptual computing group
-Prototyped new technology with camera and physiological devices
Panafold, Palo Alto, CA January 2012
Intern
-Prototyped iOS application to learn languages
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, Japan April 2005 - September 2011
Researcher/Engineer
RIKEN September 2003 - March 2005
Brain Science Institute, Laboratory for Advanced Signal Processing, Wako, Japan
Research Assistant
Tokyo Metropolitan Rehabilitation Hospital, Tokyo, Japan April 2003 - March 2005
Rehabilitation Engineer
-Developed hardware and software to assist patients in hospital
Keio University, Yokohama, Japan
Teaching Assistant for Bioinformatics experiments September 2003 - March 2004
Student Assistant for information technology classes April 2002 - March 2003
Computer consultant for Hiyoshi Information Technology Center April 2000 - March 2002
Awards
Japan Student Services Organization September 2010 - August 2015
Rotary Foundation Scholarship September 2009 - August 2010
Danish Government Scholarship September 2004 - March 2005
Keio University April 2004- March 2005, April 2002 - March 2003, April 2001- March 2002
Yoshida Scholarship Foundation April 2003 - March 2005
Obara Shiraume Scholarship Foundation April 1999 - March 2003
Publications
Journal Paper
Naoya Sazuka, Akane Sano, Mitsuru Sujino, Kei-ichi Furukawa, Mamoru Nagano, Masaki Tabuchi, Hideo Kohka
Takahashi and Yasufumi Shigeyoshi, Quantitative monitoring of the central circadian clock dynamics by peripheral
physiological events, Journal of Biological Rhythm, Submitted
Akane Sano, Hovagim Bakardjian, Movement-Related Cortical Evoked Potentials Using Four-Limb Imagery,
International Journal of Neuroscience, Vol.119, No.5, p.639-663(25), May, 2009
Conference Paper

Akane Sano, Javier Hernandez, Jean Deprey, Micah Eckhardt, Rosalind W. Picard, Matthew Goodwin, Multimodal
Annotation Tool for Challenging Behaviors in People with Autism Spectrum Disorders, Workshop on Ubiquitous
Mobile Instrumentation at the International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, Pittsburgh, PA, September 5-8, 2012
Akane Sano, Rosalind W. Picard, Toward a Taxonomy of Autonomic Sleep Patterns with Electrodermal Activity, IEEE
EMBC 2011, Boston, USA, August 2011
Takashi Tomita, Akane Sano, Akio Yasuda, Bio Headphone for facial expression estimation as Phase analysis of EMG
signal, Forum on Information Technology (FIT) 2010, 9(3), p.515-516, August, 2010
Akane Sano, Takashi Tomita, Haruo Oba, Applications using Earphone with Biosignal Sensors, Human Interface
Society Meeting, Vol.12, No.6, p.1-6, July, 2010
Akane Sano, Hovagim Bakardjian, Andrzej Cichocki, Yutaka Tomita, Blind source separation based analysis of
movement related cortical potentials. Proc. SICE 2004 Annual Conference (Society of Instrument and Control
Engineers), Vol. 3, p.2399-2402, Sapporo, Japan, Aug 4-6, 2004.
Akane Sano, Hovagim Bakardjian, Andrzej Cichocki, Yutaka Tomita, Study on Timing Control during Rhythmic
Tapping Movement , Ergonomics (in Japanese), 40, p.342-343, 2004
Akane Sano, Hovagim Bakardjian, Andrzej Cichocki, Yutaka Tomita, Time-series Analysis of Electroencephalogram
during Cue-guided and Self-paced Tapping Movements, The 45th Annual Ergonomics (in Japanese), 40, p.576-577,
2004
Poster/Oral presentation
Akane Sano, Rosalind W. Picard, Quantitative analysis of electrodermal activity during sleep, the 21 st Congress of the
ESRS Paris, France, September 4-8, 2012.
Akane Sano, Rosalind W. Picard, Robert Stickgold, Quantitative Analysis of Autonomic Sleep Patterns with
Polysomnography, SLEEP 2012, 26 th Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies, Boston, USA,
June 9-13, 2012
Akane Sano, Javier Hernandez, Matthew Goodwin, Rosalind W. Picard, AMA, an application for Annotation,
Monitoring, and Analysis of behavioral activity, in the Extended Abstract of IMFAR 2012, Toronto, Canada, May 17-
19, 2012
Naoya Sazuka, Akane Sano, Mitsugu Sujino, Kei-ichi Furukawa, Mamoru Nagano, Yasufumi Shigeyoshi, Quantitative
estimation of resynchronization phase behaviour of central circadian rhythm through core body temperature, XII
Congress of the EBRS 20-26, Oxford, UK, August, 2011
Akane Sano, Rosalind W. Picard, Hilary H. Wang, Robert Stickgold, Autonomic Sleep Patterns in Visual
Discrimination Task Improvement, SLEEP 2011 Meeting, June 11-15, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2011
Akane Sano, Rosalind W. Picard, Rana el Kaliouby, Beth Malow, Suzanne Goldman, Autonomic Sleep Patterns in
Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders, International Meeting For Autism Research 2011 The 10th Anniversary
Meeting, May 12-14, San Diego, California, 2011
Rosalind W. Picard, Akane Sano, Rana el. Kaliouby, Palmar vs. Forearm EDA during Natural Sleep at Home, 50th
annual meeting of Society for Psychophysiological Research, Portland, Sep.29 - Oct.3, Oregon, USA, 2010
Akane Sano, Hovagim Bakardjian, Andrzej Cichocki, Junichi Ushiba, Yutaka Tomita, Effects of various movement
conditions on cortical potentials, The 12 th meeting of Keio Higher-order brain function for Medical Engineering, Tokyo,
Mar, 2005
Akane Sano, Hovagim Bakardjian, Andrzej Cichocki, Yutaka Tomita, Study on Timing Control during Rhythmic
Tapping Movement , The 45th Annual Conference of Japan Ergonomics Society, Saitama, June, 2004
Akane Sano, Hovagim Bakardjian, Andrzej Cichocki, Yutaka Tomita, Time-series Analysis of Electroencephalogram
during Cue-guided and Self-paced Tapping Movements, The 45th Annual Conference of Japan Ergonomics Society,
Saitama, June, 2004

Akane Sano, Hovagim Bakardjian, Andrzej Cichocki, Yutaka Tomita, Electroencephalogram Analysis in Rhythmic
Tapping Movements, The 43rd Annual Conference of Japan ME Society, Kanazawa, May, 2004
Akane Sano, Hovagim Bakardjian, Andrzej Cichocki, Yutaka Tomita, Relationship between EEG during Rhythmic
Tapping Movements and Rhythm , The 4th of winter workshop of mechanism of brain and mind (Rusutsu2004),
Rusutsu Resort, Jan, 2004
Akane Sano, EEG Responses during Self-paced and Cue-guided rhythmic tapping movement, Riken Brain Science
Institute Summer Program 2003, Aug, 2003
Akane Sano, Cortical Activation Analysis in Silent Speech using Electroencephalograph, Riken Brain Science Institute
Summer Program 2003, Aug, 2003
Akane Sano, Yutaka Tomita, Cortical Activation Analysis in Silent Speech using Electroencephalograph , The Japan
Ergonomics Society, Ergonomics of Human-System Interaction, Mar, 2003
Akane Sano, Yutaka Tomita, Estimation of Mental State using Event Related Potential, The Japan Ergonomics Society,
Kanto branch, Graduation research presentation meeting, Nov, 2002.
Skills
Signal processing, Pattern recognition and statistical analysis
Computer Programming: MATLAB, C, C++, Java, Visual Basic, Basic, FORTRAN
Measurement of physiological signals (EEG, EMG, PPG, EDA and PSG)
Language: Japanese, English