Sato Lab - UC Davis School of Medicine

Our $64,000 Questions

In our lab, we are solving the following questions from scientific and engineering viewpoints.

How to design/create synthetic life form from scratch?

Current technologies do now allow us to create/design even a single ion channel.

How to create artificial emotion/volition?

Our brain is comprised of intellect, emotion, and volition. Can we integrate emotion and volition into the artificial intelligence?

Differential equations vs Boolean description

Which one is more fundamental to describe the universe? Differential equations are OK to describe spherical cows but not easy to describe complex/heterogeneous/multiscale systems.