Updated on 2026/06/17

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NAKAI Kengo
 
Organization
Faculty of Environmental, Life, Natural Science and Technology Lecturer
Position
Lecturer
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Degree

  • 博士(数理科学) ( 東京大学 )

Research Interests

  • 機械学習

  • リザーバーコンピューティング

  • 流体力学

Research Areas

  • Natural Science / Mathematical analysis

Education

  • The University of Tokyo   大学院数理科学研究科  

    2017.4 - 2020.3

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Research History

  • Okayama University   学術研究院 環境生命自然科学学域   Lecturer

    2023.4

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    Country:Japan

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  • Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology   学術研究院   Assistant Professor

    2020.4 - 2023.3

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  • Japan Society for the Promotion of Science   東京大学大学院数理科学研究科

    2019.4 - 2020.3

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  • Princeton University   Applied and Computational Mathematics   Visiting Student Research Collaborators

    2018.9 - 2018.10

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Professional Memberships

  • 日本応用数理学会

    2021.4

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  • The Mathematical Society of Japan

    2017.3

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Committee Memberships

  •   日本応用数理学会, 若手の会 運営委員  

    2023.4   

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  • 日本応用数理学会   編集委員 主査  

    2022.4 - 2023.3   

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    Committee type:Academic society

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  • 流体力学会年会   「流体数理」 セッションオーガナイザー  

    2020.4 - 2023.3   

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    Committee type:Academic society

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  • 日本応用数理学会   編集委員  

    2020.4 - 2022.3   

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Papers

  • On the attractor in high-dimensional neural network dynamics of reservoir computing: A Lyapunov analysis viewpoint

    Miki U. Kobayashi, Kengo Nakai, Yoshitaka Saiki, Natsuki Tsutsumi

    Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science   36 ( 5 )   2026.5

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    Recent theoretical studies on reservoir computing have shown that when the spectral radius of the adjacency matrix is sufficiently small, the dynamics of a reference system can be embedded in the reservoir space, enabling the reconstruction of dynamical invariants. However, reservoir models often reproduce time series accurately even when the spectral radius is relatively large, where the underlying mechanism is not well understood. In this study, we investigate the reconstruction of dynamical structures from the perspective of Lyapunov analysis using reservoir computing applied to the Hénon map. By comparing the Lyapunov spectrum of the reservoir dynamics with that of the reference system, we show that the reference dynamics are embedded in a low-dimensional inertial manifold in the reservoir space. We further demonstrate that the full Lyapunov spectrum of the reference system can be recovered by restricting the analysis to the tangent space of this manifold, even when the spectral radius is relatively large. These results clarify the geometric mechanism underlying the successful reconstruction of chaotic dynamics by reservoir computing beyond the regime where theoretical guarantees currently exist.

    DOI: 10.1063/5.0315384

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  • Machine learning prediction of the Madden–Julian oscillation using reservoir computing

    Tamaki Suematsu, Kengo Nakai, Tsuyoshi Yoneda, Daisuke Takasuka, Takuya Jinno, Yoshitaka Saiki, Hiroaki Miura

    Japan Journal of Industrial and Applied Mathematics   43 ( 2 )   2026.3

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    Publishing type:Research paper (scientific journal)   Publisher:Springer Science and Business Media LLC  

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    The prediction of the Madden–Julian Oscillation (MJO), a massive tropical weather event with global socio-economic impacts, has been infamously difficult with physics-based weather prediction models. We employ the reservoir computing, a brain-inspired machine-learning technique, to construct a machine learning model that forecasts the real-time multivariate MJO index (RMM), a macroscopic variable that represents the state of the MJO. The training data was refined by development of a novel real-time band-pass filter that extracts the recurrency of MJO signals only from the past raw atmospheric data, and by selection of a suitable time-delay coordinate of the RMM that enhances the recurrency of the input data. The constructed model demonstrated the skill to forecast the time sequence of the RMM for a month from pre-developmental stages of the MJO. Examination of best-performing cases suggested that RMM sequences may be predicted for over two months in some cases. These results imply that inherent predictability limit of the MJO is longer than that has been estimated from physics-based weather prediction models.

    DOI: 10.1007/s13160-026-00770-5

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    Other Link: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13160-026-00770-5

  • Long-term prediction of El Niño-Southern Oscillation using reservoir computing with data-driven realtime filter Reviewed

    Takuya Jinno, Takahito Mitsui, Kengo Nakai, Yoshitaka Saiki, Tsuyoshi Yoneda

    Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science   35 ( 5 )   2025.5

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    In recent years, the application of machine learning approaches to time-series forecasting of climate dynamical phenomena has become increasingly active. It is known that applying a bandpass filter to a time-series data is a key to obtaining a high-quality data-driven model. Here, to obtain longer-term predictability of machine learning models, we introduce a new type of bandpass filter. It can be applied to realtime operational prediction workflows since it relies solely on past time series. We combine the filter with reservoir computing, which is a machine-learning technique that employs a data-driven dynamical system. As an application, we predict the multi-year dynamics of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation with the prediction horizon of 24 months using only past time series.

    DOI: 10.1063/5.0261124

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  • Data-driven ordinary-differential-equation modeling of high-frequency complex dynamics via a low-frequency dynamics model Reviewed

    Natsuki Tsutsumi, Kengo Nakai, Yoshitaka Saiki

    Physical Review E   111 ( 1 )   2025.1

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    Language:English   Publishing type:Research paper (scientific journal)   Publisher:American Physical Society (APS)  

    DOI: 10.1103/physreve.111.014212

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    Other Link: http://harvest.aps.org/v2/journals/articles/10.1103/PhysRevE.111.014212/fulltext

  • Lyapunov analysis of data-driven models of high dimensional dynamics using reservoir computing: Lorenz-96 system and fluid flow Reviewed

    Miki Kobayashi, Kengo Nakai, YOSHITAKA SAIKI

    Journal of Physics: Complexity   2024.5

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    Publishing type:Research paper (scientific journal)   Publisher:IOP Publishing  

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    We computed the Lyapunov spectrum and finite-time Lyapunov exponents of a data-driven model
constructed using reservoir computing. This analysis was performed for two dynamics that exhibit a
highly dimensionally unstable structure. We focused on the reconstruction of heterochaotic dynam-
ics, which are characterized by the coexistence of different numbers of unstable dimensions. This
was achieved by computing fluctuations in the number of positive finite-time Lyapunov exponents.

    DOI: 10.1088/2632-072x/ad5264

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    Other Link: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2632-072X/ad5264/pdf

  • Constructing low-dimensional ordinary differential equations from chaotic time series of high- or infinite-dimensional systems using radial-function-based regression Reviewed

    Natsuki Tsutsumi, Kengo Nakai, Yoshitaka Saiki

    Physical Review E   108 ( 5 )   2023.11

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    DOI: 10.1103/physreve.108.054220

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  • Constructing differential equations using only a scalar time-series about continuous time chaotic dynamics Reviewed

    Natsuki Tsutsumi, Kengo Nakai, Yoshitaka Saiki

    Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science   32 ( 9 )   2022.9

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    We propose a simple method of constructing a system of differential equations of chaotic behavior based on the regression only from scalar observable time-series data. The estimated system enables us to reconstruct invariant sets and statistical properties as well as to infer short time-series. Our successful modeling relies on the introduction of a set of Gaussian radial basis functions to capture local structures. The proposed method is used to construct a system of ordinary differential equations whose orbit reconstructs a time-series of a variable of the well-known Lorenz system as a simple but typical example. A system for a macroscopic fluid variable is also constructed.

    DOI: 10.1063/5.0100166

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  • Dynamical system analysis of a data-driven model constructed by reservoir computing Reviewed

    Miki U. Kobayashi, Kengo Nakai, Yoshitaka Saiki, Natsuki Tsutsumi

    Physical Review E   104 ( 4 )   2021.10

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    Publishing type:Research paper (scientific journal)   Publisher:American Physical Society (APS)  

    DOI: 10.1103/physreve.104.044215

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    Other Link: http://harvest.aps.org/v2/journals/articles/10.1103/PhysRevE.104.044215/fulltext

  • Machine-learning construction of a model for a macroscopic fluid variable using the delay-coordinate of a scalar observable Reviewed

    Kengo Nakai, Yoshitaka Saiki

    DISCRETE AND CONTINUOUS DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SERIES S   2020.5

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  • Direction of Vorticity and a Refined Regularity Criterion for the Navier–Stokes Equations with Fractional Laplacian Reviewed

    Kengo NAKAI

    Journal of Mathematical Fluid Mechanics   21 ( 21 )   2019.3

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  • Machine-learning inference of fluid variables from data using reservoir computing Reviewed

    Kengo Nakai, Yoshitaka Saiki

    Physical Review E   98 ( 023111 )   1 - 6   2018.8

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Awards

  • 岡山大学工学部研究功績賞

    2024.3   岡山大学  

    中井拳吾

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  • 応用数学研究奨励賞

    2022.3   日本数学会   機械学習モデルの力学系構造の再現性と流体統計量の予測

    中井拳吾

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  • 数理科学研究科長賞

    2020.3   東京大学大学院 数理科学研究科  

    中井拳吾

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Research Projects

  • Dynamical system analysis of constructed machine learning model from time-series data

    Grant number:22K17965  2022.04 - 2026.03

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists  Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists

    中井 拳吾

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    Grant amount:\4550000 ( Direct expense: \3500000 、 Indirect expense:\1050000 )

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  • 流体運動におけるエネルギーの流れの考察

    Grant number:19J12482  2019.04 - 2021.03

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows  Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows

    中井 拳吾

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    Grant amount:\2100000 ( Direct expense: \2100000 )

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Class subject in charge

  • Seminar in Mathematical Science for Data Engineering A (2025academic year) Year-round  - その他

  • Seminar in Mathematical Science for Data Engineering B (2025academic year) Year-round  - その他

  • Advanced Seminar in Mathematical Science for Data Engineering (2025academic year) Other  - その他

  • Advanced Seminar in Mathematical Science for Data Engineering (2025academic year) Year-round  - その他

  • Introduction to Optimization (2025academic year) Third semester  - 月1~2,木3~4

  • Introduction to Machine Learning (2025academic year) 1st semester  - 火7~8,金1~2

  • Environmental Science of Statistics II-1 (2025academic year) 1st semester  - 火7,金1

  • Environmental Science of Statistics II-2 (2025academic year) 1st semester  - 火8,金2

  • Linear Algebra (2025academic year) 1st and 2nd semester  - 金5~6

  • Linear Algebra 1 (2025academic year) 1st semester  - 金5~6

  • Linear Algebra 2 (2025academic year) Second semester  - 金5~6

  • Linear Algebra I (2025academic year) 1st and 2nd semester  - 金5~6

  • Computational Statistics B-1 (2025academic year) Third semester  - 月1,木3

  • Computational Statistics B-2 (2025academic year) Third semester  - 月2,木4

  • Seminar in Mathematical Science for Data Engineering A (2024academic year) Year-round  - その他

  • Seminar in Mathematical Science for Data Engineering B (2024academic year) Year-round  - その他

  • Introduction to Optimization (2024academic year) Third semester  - 月1~2,木1~2

  • Theory and Applications of Machine Learning (2024academic year) Prophase  - 金7~8

  • Introduction to Machine Learning (2024academic year) 1st semester  - 火7~8,金1~2

  • Environmental Science of Statistics II-1 (2024academic year) 1st semester  - 火7,金1

  • Environmental Science of Statistics II-2 (2024academic year) 1st semester  - 火8,金2

  • Linear Algebra (2024academic year) 1st and 2nd semester  - 金5~6

  • Linear Algebra (2024academic year) 1st and 2nd semester  - 金5~6

  • Linear Algebra 1 (2024academic year) 1st semester  - 金5~6

  • Linear Algebra 2 (2024academic year) Second semester  - 金5~6

  • Linear Algebra I (2024academic year) 1st and 2nd semester  - 金5~6

  • Computational Statistics B-1 (2024academic year) Third semester  - 月1,木1

  • Computational Statistics B-2 (2024academic year) Third semester  - 月2,木2

  • Seminar in Mathematical Science for Data Engineering A (2023academic year) Year-round  - その他

  • Seminar in Mathematical Science for Data Engineering B (2023academic year) Year-round  - その他

  • Introduction to Optimization (2023academic year) Third semester  - 月1~2,木1~2

  • Linear Algebra (2023academic year) 1st and 2nd semester  - 金5~6

  • Linear Algebra (2023academic year) 1st and 2nd semester  - 金5~6

  • Linear Algebra 1 (2023academic year) 1st semester  - 金5~6

  • Linear Algebra 2 (2023academic year) Second semester  - 金5~6

  • Linear Algebra I (2023academic year) 1st and 2nd semester  - 金5~6

  • Linear Algebra I (2023academic year) 1st and 2nd semester  - 金5~6

  • Computational Statistics B-1 (2023academic year) Third semester  - 月1,木1

  • Computational Statistics B-1 (2023academic year) Third semester  - 月1,木1

  • Computational Statistics B-2 (2023academic year) Third semester  - 月2,木2

  • Computational Statistics B-2 (2023academic year) Third semester  - 月2,木2

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