Research field (2)：
Robotics and intelligent systems
, Ecology and environmental science
Research theme for competitive and other funds (16)：
2021 - 2026 Technologies for rule/learning-based analysis and intervention policy in hierarchical bio-navigation
2021 - 2026 Field examination of raptors' tactics at prey pursuit navigation
2022 - 2025 Tactics at the prey pursuit navigation in raptors toward escaping bats: A robotics approach
2022 - 2023 Formation of a foundation for interactive basic biological research linking micro and macro research: an approach centered on animal behavior studies
2021 - 2022 Formation of a foundation for interactive basic biological research linking micro and macro research: an approach centered on animal behavior studies
2019 - 2022 Elucidation of tactics by predators in prey pursuit movements
2020 - 2021 Field examination of navigation capability in raptors for prey pursuit
2020 - 2021 Formation of a foundation for interactive basic biological research linking micro and macro research: an approach centered on animal behavior studies
2019 - 2021 Examination of the tactics in pursuit behaviors of aerial predators, and exploration of the optimal navigation control for prey capture
2018 - 2021 Functional verification of Parallel Navigation type prey tracking movement by predators
2019 - 2020 Development of guidance and control mechanisms for unmanned aerial vehicles
2019 - 2019 Tactics used by bats when pursuing prey: predictive control of echolocation sonar direction and flight course
2018 - 2018 Application of 3D display based on motion parallax to research of animal behavior
2015 - 2017 Development of a method for learning predation avoidance behavior of released fish using virtual reality video technology
2016 - 2017 Development of a predator-prey interaction simulator for small fishes
2014 - 2015 Predation avoidance strategies of frogs against snakes -Analysis of optimal use of escape and immobility-
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Papers (12)：
Nozomi Nishiumi, Emyo Fujioka, Shizuko Hiryu. Bats integrate multiple echolocation and flight tactics to track prey. Current Biology. 2024. 34. 13. 2948-2956.e6
Yuuki Kawabata, Hideyuki Akada, Ken-Ichiro Shimatani, Gregory Naoki Nishihara, Hibiki Kimura, Nozomi Nishiumi, Paolo Domenici. Multiple preferred escape trajectories are explained by a geometric model incorporating prey's turn and predator attack endpoint. eLife. 2023. 12
Fumio Takeshita, Nozomi Nishiumi. Social behaviors elevate predation risk in fiddler crabs: quantitative evidence from field observations. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 2022. 76. 12
Masahiro Nakamura, Michio Yoneda, Taizo Morioka, Akinori Takasuka, Nozomi Nishiumi. Positive effects of fast growth on locomotor performance in pelagic fish juveniles. Oecologia. 2022. 199. 3. 589-597
Keisuke Fujii, Naoya Takeishi, Kazushi Tsutsui, Emyo Fujioka, Nozomi Nishiumi, Ryoya Tanaka, Mika Fukushiro, Kaoru Ide, Hiroyoshi Kohno, Ken Yoda, et al. Learning interaction rules from multi-animal trajectories via augmented behavioral model. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS'21). 2021. 34. 11108-11122
Nozomi Nishiumi. bats that shoot echolocation sonar beam by predicting flight course of escaping moths. Newsletter of Japan Biologging Science. 2021. 174. 3-4
Nishiumi N. Surviving tactics used by "frogs targeted by snakes" - jump after attracting snakes increases probability of successful escape. Academist Journal. 2020. https://academist-cf.com/journal/?p=13384
西海 望. Journal of Ethology Editor's Choice Award 2015 論文賞受賞. ECSER News. 2016. 4-5
Behavioral strategies in the game between predator and prey animals
(The 43th annual meeting of the Japanese Society for Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry 2021)
Geometrical model explains multiple preferred escape trajectories of fish
(The 2020 Animal Behavior Society Virtual Meeting 2020)
A waiting game in predator and prey: preemptive actions are vulnerable against opponent’s counteractions
(The 2020 Animal Behavior Society Virtual Meeting 2020)
Tactics research in predators and prey by quantitative and kinematic measurement
(The 43rd Annual Meeting of the Japan Neuroscience Society 2020)
2021/09 - Japan Ethological Society Prize of Japan Ethological Society 2021
2020/07 - Journal of Experimental Biology Outside JEB "A game of patience between predator and prey: waiting for opponent’s action determines successful capture or escape"
2020/06 - Canadian Journal of Zoology Editors' Choice "A game of patience between predator and prey: waiting for opponent’s action determines successful capture or escape"
2015/11 - Journal of Ethology Journal of Ethology 2015 Editor's Choice Award "Distance-dependent switching of anti-predator behavior of frogs from immobility to fleeing"
2015/06 - Japan Student Services Organization 2014 Exemption from Return of Scholarship for Particularly Outstanding Achievement (half exemption)
