The ICE Lab. conducts research on the mechanisms of intelligence and evolutionary phenomena that support artistic culture and on information technology that contributes to cultural development. With a goal of constructing a unified model describing intellectual activities of creators and audiences as well as the evolution of knowledge distribution within social groups, our research topics range from fundamental studies on machine learning, data generation models, evolutionary theory, interdisciplinary physics, etc. to information processing techniques of musical, visual, and literary arts. We foster scientists and engineers who can research and develop artificial intelligence technologies from the perspective of social development, based on their expertise in informatics and physics, including advanced machine learning and mathematical theories of evolution.

• July 30th, 2026
  Eita Nakamura (Associate Prof.) received the 22nd Best Paper Award from the Institute of Image Electronics Engineers of Japan.
• July 27th, 2026
  Eita Nakamura (Associate Prof.) gave a talk at the University of Tokyo AI Center Symposium.
• July 17th, 2026
  Eita Nakamura (Associate Prof.) gave a talk at the Science Cafe @ Fukuoka.
• July 4th, 2026
  We annouced the call for participation in the KIKIGAKI Vocal Project.
• April 1st, 2026
  Kengo Nishida and Ryotaro To (B4) joined our lab.
• Dec 12th, 2025
  Dr. Kenji Itao (RIKEN) presented at the 8th ICE Seminar. “Cumulative Cultural Evolution by Distillation Learning”