Yasuyuki Kataoka

My research addresses hemodynamic control problems through an integrated framework that combines cardiovascular modeling, pharmacological and device-based modeling, and advanced control algorithm design. I conduct validation studies using both in-silico and in-vivo models, aiming to bridge methodological development and clinical application. My work is motivated by clinical translation, with a particular focus on acute heart failure. I am trained in control engineering and data science, with applications in biomedical systems.

Research Interests

• Hemodynamic control and optimization
• Cardiovascular modeling
• Model-based and Data-driven Control Algorithm
• Clinical decision support system

Journals/Transactions

• Y. Kataoka, K. Uemura, T. Nishikawa, Y. Fukuda, J. Peterson, K. Saku, M. Sampei, J. Alexander, and K. Sunagawa, "Modeling Partial and Total Support of Left Ventricular Assist Device for Discrete Hemodynamic Control Framework," IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 2026. (Under Review to Special Issue “EMBC 2025 Top Papers”) [URL]
• Y. Kataoka, K. Uemura, T. Nishikawa, Y. Fukuda, J. Peterson, K. Sato, H. Matsushita, H. Morita, Y. Nakamura, M. Otake, K. Oba, N. Hiraki, K. Saku, M. Sampei, J. Alexander, and K. Sunagawa, "In-Vivo Evaluation of Discrete Two-Degree-of-Freedom Hemodynamic Control System in Canine Heart Failure using Pulmonary Artery Catheter," IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology, 2026. (Under Review) [URL]
• Y. Fukuda, T. Kawada, Y. Kataoka, J. Peterson, K. Saku, J. Alexander, and K. Sunagawa, "Renal Hemodynamic and Urinary Response to Baroreflex-Mediated Sympathetic Modulation: Insights from High-Resolution Arterial Impedance Analysis in Rats," American Journal of Physiology–Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology, 2025. (Under Review) [URL]
• H. Matsushita, T. Nishikawa, K. Uemura, K. Sasaki, Y. Nakamura, K. Sato, H. Morita, K. Ohba, T. Kawada, Y. Kataoka, J. Alexander, and K. Saku, "Automated Hemodynamic Management System for the Prevention of Hypotension and Cardiac Output Reduction During General Anesthesia: Preclinical Experimental Validation," Journal of Anesthesia, 2025. (Under Review) [URL]
• Y. Kataoka, K. Uemura, M. Sampei, Y. Fukuda, J. Peterson, R. Funada, K. Saku, J. Alexander, and K. Sunagawa, "A Discrete Hemodynamic Control Framework: Proof-of-Concept Study for Autonomous Drug Therapy in Acute Heart Failure," IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 2025. (Accepted) [URL]
• K. Sato, J. Peterson, K. Uemura, K. Ohba, T. Nishikawa, K. Sasaki, S. Yokota, H. Matsushita, H. Morita, Y. Yoshida, N. Hiraki, M. Otake, Y. Nakamura, M. Fukumitsu, T. Kawada, Y. Kataoka, J. Alexander, K. Sunagawa, and K. Saku, "One Surface Fits All: Validating the Venous Return Model Across Species and Scales in Circulatory Equilibrium," American Journal of Physiology–Heart and Circulatory Physiology, 2025. [URL]
• T. Unoki, K. Uemura, S. Yokota, H. Matsushita, M. Kakuuchi, H. Morita, K. Sato, Y. Yoshida, K. Sasaki, Y. Kataoka, T. Nishikawa, M. Fukumitsu, T. Kawada, K. Sunagawa, J. Alexander Jr., and K. Saku, "Closed-loop Automated Control System of Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation and Left Ventricular Assist Device Support in Cardiogenic Shock," ASAIO Journal, 2024. [URL]
• Y. Fukuda, T. Kawada, Y. Kataoka, J. Peterson, K. Saku, J. Alexander, and K. Sunagawa, "Influence of Angiotensin II and Telmisartan on In Vivo High-Resolution Renal Arterial Impedance in Rats," American Journal of Physiology–Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology, 2024, Vol. 327, No. 3, R349–R361. [URL]
• K. Sasaki, T. Kawada, H. Matsushita, S. Yokota, M. Kakuuchi, A. Yokoi, Y. Yoshida, H. Morita, K. Sato, T. Nishikawa, A. P. N. Kutter, Y. Kataoka, J. Alexander Jr., K. Saku, T. Ishikawa, and K. Uemura, "Computer-controlled Closed-loop Norepinephrine Infusion System for Automated Control of Mean Arterial Pressure in Dogs under Isoflurane-induced Hypotension: A Feasibility Study," Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2023, Vol. 11. [URL]
• S. Yokota, K. Uemura, T. Unoki, H. Matsushita, M. Kakuuchi, Y. Yoshida, K. Sasaki, T. Kawada, T. Nishikawa, Y. Kataoka, J. Peterson, K. Sunagawa, J. Alexander Jr., and K. Saku, "Novel Closed-loop Control System of Dual Rotary Blood Pumps in Total Artificial Heart Based on the Circulatory Equilibrium Framework: A Proof-of-Concept In Vivo Study," IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 2023, Vol. 71, No. 12, pp. 3358–3369. [URL]
• 片岡 泰之, 中辻 真, 戸田 浩之, 小池 義昌, 松尾 豊, 「LODとソーシャルメディアに基づく分野特有の行動オントロジーの構築と評価」, 人工知能学会論文誌, 31 巻 1 号, SP1-H, 2016. [URL]

Conferences Proceedings

• Y. Kataoka, R. Funada, Y. Fukuda, K. Uemura, M. Sampei, K. Sunagawa, K. Saku, and J. Peterson, "Hybrid Hemodynamic Control System: A Clinically Feasible Design for Stabilizing Total Perfusion in Shock," 2025 American Control Conference, 2025, pp. 2035–2040. [URL]
• Y. Kataoka, Y. Fukuda, J. Peterson, K. Uemura, K. Saku, R. Funada, M. Sampei, J. Alexander, and K. Sunagawa, "Hemodynamic Regulation with Minimization of Myocardial Oxygen Consumption via Drugs and Left Ventricular Assist Device," 47th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society, 2025, pp. 1–6. (Top 7% of EMBC submissions) [URL]
• Y. Kataoka, R. Funada, K. Uemura, J. Peterson, K. Saku, K. Sunagawa, M. Sampei, and J. Alexander, "Patient-Specific Optimal Hemodynamic Control with Minimal Myocardial Oxygen Consumption," Proceedings of the 8th IFAC Conference on Nonlinear Model Predictive Control, 2024, Vol. 58, Issue 18, pp. 47–52. [URL]
• Y. Kataoka, Y. Fukuda, I. Shelly, J. Peterson, K. Uemura, K. Saku, M. Sampei, J. Alexander, and K. Sunagawa, "Discrete Two-Degree-of-Freedom Control for Hemodynamic Optimization: Circulatory Simulation Study with Baroreflex Variability," 46th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2024, pp. 1–6. [URL]
• K. Uemura, T. Nishikawa, H. Matsushita, K. Sasaki, K. Sato, S. Yokota, H. Morita, Y. Yoshida, M. Fukumitsu, T. Kawada, Y. Kataoka, and K. Saku, "Minimally Invasive Monitor of Cardiac Output Based on Machine-learning Analysis of the Pulse Contour of Peripheral Arterial Pressure," 46th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2024, pp. 1–6. [URL]
• Y. Kataoka and J. Peterson, "Nonlinear Hemodynamic Control Design via Input-Output Linearization," Proceedings of Computing in Cardiology, 2023, pp. 1–4. [URL]
• Y. Kataoka, Y. Fukuda, I. Shelly, J. Peterson, S. Yokota, K. Uemura, K. Saku, J. Alexander, and K. Sunagawa, "Inverse ESPVR Estimation with Singularity Avoidance via Constrained EDPVR Parameter Optimization," 45th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2023, pp. 1–6. [URL]
• Y. Kataoka, Y. Fukuda, J. Peterson, S. Yokota, K. Uemura, K. Saku, J. Alexander, and K. Sunagawa, "Analytical Representation of Four-dimensional Hemodynamics for Drug Therapy Simulation in Acute Heart Failure Treatment," 45th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2023, pp. 1–6. [URL]
• Y. Kataoka, Y. Fukuda, I. Shelly, J. Peterson, J. Alexander, and K. Sunagawa, "System Design for Optimizing Drug Infusions Using Cardiovascular Space Mapping for Acute Heart Failure," 44th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2022, pp. 1388–1393. [URL]
• Y. Kataoka and H. Tomoike, "Spatial Feature Extraction of Vectorcardiography via Minimum Volume Ellipsoid Enclosure in Classifying Left Ventricular Hypertrophy," 43rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2021, pp. 625–628. [URL]
• Y. Fukuda, Y. Kataoka, H. Kodama, Y. Yasuno, and H. Tomoike, "Tonometric Condition of Cellular Polypropylene Film Sensors in Measuring Arterial Pressure Waveform," 43rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2021, pp. 7445–7449. [URL]
• Y. Kataoka, T. Watanabe, K. Tanaka, and T. Yamada, "Consumer Device Recommendation Method for Web-Based Distributed Browsing," 2014 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics, 2014, pp. 87–88. [URL]
• Y. Kataoka, K. Sekiguchi, and M. Sampei, "Circle Motion Control of Trirotor UAV via Discrete Output Zeroing," 52nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2013, pp. 226–231. [URL]
• Y. Kataoka, T. Watanabe, K. Tanaka, and S. Higashino, "Service Discovery Method Based on User Intent," 2013 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technologies, Vol. 1, 2013, pp. 473–480. [URL]
• Y. Kataoka, K. Sekiguchi, and M. Sampei, "Nonlinear Control and Model Analysis of Trirotor UAV Model," IFAC Proceedings Volumes, Vol. 44, No. 1, 2011, pp. 10391–10396. [URL]
• Y. Kataoka, K. Sekiguchi, and M. Sampei, "Periodic Motion Control for Monorotor-type Flying Robot at Non-equilibrium Point via Zero Dynamics Controller," SICE Annual Conference 2011, Tokyo, Japan, 2011, pp. 1053–1056. [URL]

Japanese Conferences

• Y. Fukuda, T. Kawada, Y. Kataoka, J. Peterson, K. Saku, J. Alexander, and K. Sunagawa, "Renal Hemodynamics Modeling for Cardiovascular Simulator," The 64th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Medical and Biological Engineering, 2025. [URL]
• K. Sato, J. Peterson, K. Uemura, K. Ohba, T. Nishikawa, H. Matsushita, H. Morita, Y. Yoshida, N. Hiraki, M. Otake, K. Sasaki, M. Fukumitsu, T. Kawada, Y. Kataoka, J. Alexander, K. Sunagawa, and K. Saku, "Validating the Venous Return Surface: Experimental Insights across Diverse Body Sizes in Circulatory Equilibrium," The 89th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Japanese Circulation Society, 2025. [URL]
• 上村 和紀, 横田 翔平, 鵜木 崇, 松下 裕貴, 此内 緑, 吉田 祐季, 佐々木 一益, 川田 徹, 西川 拓也, 片岡 泰之, ピーターソン ジョン, 砂川 賢二, アレキサンダー ジョー, 朔 啓太, 「完全置換型人工心臓の循環平衡自動制御システムの開発」, The 63rd Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Medical and Biological Engineering, 2024. [URL]
• Y. Kataoka, Y. Fukuda, I. Shelly, J. Peterson, J. Alexander, and K. Sunagawa, "Drug Determined Reachability: Modeling and Analysis of Multiple Drug Infusions for Acute Heart Failure Treatment," The 61st Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Medical and Biological Engineering, 2022, Vol. 60, p. 184. [URL]
• 片岡 泰之, 中辻 真, 戸田 浩之, 小池 義昌, 松尾 豊, 「特定状況下における実世界行動ネットワーク構築」, 第5回 Webインテリジェンスとインタラクション研究会, 2015. [URL]
• 片岡 泰之, Ayesha Shahzad, 山田 智広, 「意思決定を要する会議における貢献度推定技術」, 第4回 Webインテリジェンスとインタラクション研究会, 2015. [URL]
• 青木 良輔, 橋本 遼, 瀬古 俊一, 片岡 泰之, 井原 雅行, 渡辺 昌洋, 小林 透, 「Drag&Flick: タッチスクリーンを用いた視覚障がい者向け文字入力方式」, 情報処理学会 インタラクション, 2013. [URL]
• 片岡 泰之, 渡部 智樹, 田中 清, 東野 豪, 「モバイルアプリのファセット検索を実現するインデクシング手法」, 電子情報通信学会 技術研究報告, Vol. 112, pp. 27–32, 2013. [URL]
• 片岡 泰之, 渡部 智樹, 田中 清, 東野 豪, 「機能の特異性を考慮したサービスインデクシング手法と実装評価」, 第2回 Webインテリジェンスとインタラクション研究会, 2013. [URL]
• 片岡 泰之, 瀬古 俊一, 青木 良輔, 橋本 遼, 井原 雅行, 渡辺 昌洋, 渡部 智樹, 小林 透, 「インテントの時系列変化を考慮したボランティアマッチング支援手法」, HCGシンポジウム, 2013. [URL]
• 青木 良輔, 橋本 遼, 瀬古 俊一, 片岡 泰之, 井原 雅行, 渡辺 昌洋, 小林 透, 「マルチタッチスクリーンを用いた障がい者向け文字入力方式」, HCGシンポジウム, 2013. [URL]
• 片岡 泰之, 関口 和真, 三平 満司, 「不連続制御器を用いたMonoRotor飛行ロボットの非平衡点への周期安定化」, 第55回 システム制御情報学会 研究会, 2011. [URL]
• 片岡 泰之, 関口 和真, 三平 満司, 「Trirotor型UAVのシステム解析と非線形制御」, 計測自動制御学会 第11回 制御部門大会, 2011. [URL]
• 片岡 泰之, 中浦 茂樹, 三平 満司, 「ゼロダイナミクスを利用したAcrobotの跳躍着地運動の制御」, 計測自動制御学会 第9回 制御部門大会, 2009. [URL]

Invited Talks & Symposia

• Y. Kataoka, "A Discrete Hemodynamic Control Framework for Multi-Input Multi-Output Clinical Interventions in Acute Heart Failure," 48th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2026. (Mini-Symposia) [URL]
• Y. Kataoka, "Real-time Machine Intelligence in IndyCar and Tour de France," Strata Data Conference 2018, 2018. [URL]

Books/Lecture Notes

• Y. Kataoka and P. Gray, "Real-time Power Performance Prediction in Tour de France," 5th International Workshop on Machine Learning and Data Mining for Sports Analytics (co-located with ECML/PKDD), 2018; Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 11330, Springer, 2019, pp. 121–130. [URL]

Posters

• K. Sato, J. Peterson, K. Uemura, K. Oba, T. Nishikawa, S. Yokota, H. Matsushita, H. Morita, Y. Yoshida, N. Hiraki, M. Otake, Y. Nakamura, K. Sasaki, M. Fukumitsu, T. Kawada, Y. Kataoka, J. Alexander, K. Sunagawa, and K. Saku, "Validating the Venous Return Surface in Circulatory Equilibrium: Experimental Insights Across Species and Diverse Body Sizes," American Physiology Summit 2025, 2025. [URL]
• Y. Fukuda, T. Kawada, J. Peterson, K. Saku, K. Sunagawa, Y. Kataoka, and J. Alexander, "Exploring Open-Loop Baroreflex Dynamics: A Comparison Between Female and Male Rats," American Physiology Summit 2025, 2025. [URL]
• K. Sato, J. Peterson, K. Uemura, T. Nishikawa, S. Yokota, H. Matsushita, H. Morita, Y. Yoshida, M. Fukumitsu, T. Kawada, Y. Kataoka, J. Alexander, K. Sunagawa, and K. Saku, "Allometric Scaling of the Parameters Characterizing the Venous Return Surface in the Generalized Framework of Circulatory Equilibrium," American Physiology Summit 2024, 2024. [URL]
• Y. Fukuda, T. Kawada, Y. Kataoka, J. Peterson, K. Saku, J. Alexander, and K. Sunagawa, "The Effect of Baroreflex-induced Sympathetic Suppression on Renal Arterial Impedance in Rats," American Physiology Summit 2024, 2024. [URL]
• Y. Fukuda, Y. Kataoka, T. Kawada, J. Peterson, K. Saku, J. Alexander, and K. Sunagawa, "Estimation of Renal Arterial Resistances and Glomerular Capillary Pressure via High-Resolution Renal Arterial Impedance," 45th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2023. [URL]
• Y. Kataoka and H. Tomoike, "Does Diagnostic Sensitivity Depend on the Number of ECG Leads?," 42nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2020. [URL]
• Y. Kataoka and D. Junkins, "Mining Muscle Use Data for Fatigue Reduction in IndyCar," 2017 MIT Sports Analytics Conference, 2017. [URL]
• Y. Kataoka, A. Shahzad, and T. Yamada, "Contribution Analysis in Group Work towards Automatic Facilitation System," ACM GROUP, 2014. [URL]

Awards

• Jet Blue Prize (175+ partipants), Travel Hackathon, Emirates and Carnegie Mellon Univesity, 2017.
• Best MPG Machine Learning Award (100+ partipants), Prius Challenge '17, Toyote Research Institute, 2017.
• 2nd Prize (120+ partipants) Mercedes Benz Hackathon '16 - Silicon Valley, 2016.
• 1st Prize (300+ partiripants), Mylan Hackathon '16 - Bangalore, 2016.
• 1st Prize (250+ partiripants), Mylan Hackathon '16 - Pittsburgh, 2016.
• Excellent Research Award, SIG Web Intelligence and Interaction Conference, 2014.
• Excellent Research Activity Award, NTT Service Evolution Laboratories, 2014.
• 2nd Prize (40+ participants), NHK Robocon International Design Contest, 2006.

Service / Professional Activities

• Associate Editor, IET Journals, 2019–present.
• 専門委員, SIG Webインテリジェンスとインタラクション研究会 / WebDBフォーラム研究会, 2014–2015.

Education

1. (Candidate) Ph.D. in Control Engineering
   Institute of Science of Tokyo, Japan, TBD
   Dissertation: An Autonomous Hemodynamic Control Framework with In-Vivo Validation for Acute Heart Failure Management
2. M.Eng. in Control Engineering
   Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, 2011 (Valedictorian)
3. Exchange Program
   University of Waterloo, Canada, 2009
4. B.S. in Control Engineering
   Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, 2008 (Early Graduation)

Experience

1. Research Scientist
   NTT Research, Inc. / Medical and Health Informatics Laboratories, 2019-present
   Leading R&D on hemodynamic control system
2. Data Scientist
   NTT Innovation Institute, Inc., 2015–2019
   Led biomedical data science projects in sports and automotive industry
3. Research Scientist
   NTT R\&D / Service Evolution Laboratories, 2011–2015
   Worked machine learning projects in natural language processing

Contact/Others

Email: yasuyuki.kataoka[at]ntt-research.com
Scholar: Google Scholar