Academic Record

April 1990 - March 1994

Department of Information Science Undergraduate, University of Tokyo

Degree : Bachelor of Science

April 1994 - March 1996

Department of Information Science Graduate School, University of Tokyo

Degree : Master of Science

April 1996 - March 1999

Department of Information Science Graduate School, University of Tokyo

Degree : Doctor of Science (July 12, 1999)

Professional Record

April 1999 - March 2003

Researcher, Computational Biology Research Center (Electrotechnical Laboratory until March 2001) National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology

April 2001 - 2003

Project Assistant Professor, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Keio University

April 2003 - Present

Associate Professor, Department of Computational Biology, Graduate School, University of Tokyo

April 2004 - Present

Project Associate Professor, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Keio University

April 2005 - October 2006 

Senior Visiting Scientist, Plant Science Center, RIKEN

November 2006 - Present

Group sub-director, Unit leader, Plant Science Center, RIKEN 

 

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Fellowships

April 1996 - March 1999

Doctoral Research Fellow, Japan Society of Promotion of Science (JSPS)

• April 1997 -- September 1998 Visiting Scholar, Department of Molecular Biotechnology, University of Washington
• June 1998 -- July 1998 Visiting Researcher, Biocomputing Group, EMBL Heidelberg

October 2000 - September 2003

PRESTO Research Fellow, Japan Science and Technology Corporation (JST)

October 2004 - September 2007

PRESTO Research Fellow, Japan Science and Technology Corporation (JST)

Research Grant

Principal investigator of

April 2004 - March 2005

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Areas (B) from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan.

October 2004 - September 2005

Okawa Foundation Research Grant

April 2005 - March 2009

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Areas "Systems Genomics" from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan.

Social Activities

Program Committee

Congress on Evolutionary Computation 2003 - 2007, (Special Session on Biomolecular Computing)

IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, 2004

17th Genome Informatics Workshop, 2006

Society Committee

Manager of Japanese Society for Bioinformatics, 2001-2002

Planning committee of Japanese Society of Artificial Intelligence, 2001-2002

Planning committee of (Japanese) Chem-Bio Informatics Society, 2003

Consultant of `Green Bio Technology' in JBA, 2004

Consultant of `Chemical Products & Process' in JBA, 2004

Councilor of Japanese Society for Bioinformatics, 2005-2006

Editorial board of Chem-Bio Informatics Journal, 2005-2010

Topics committee of Journal "Bioscience and Industry", 2005

Planning committee of New Generation Computing Journal, 2006

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