Title	Professor, Dr.Sc. Head, Laboratory of DNA Information Analysis Head, Laboratory of Sequence Analysis
Research Area	Systems Biology, Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Genome Informatics, Discovery Science
Affiliation	Human Genome Center Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo 4-6-1 Shirokanedai, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-8639, Japan Phone Number:+81-3-5449-5615 Fax Number:+81-3-5449-5442
Profile

- Peta flops computing for biomedical applications: Since 2006, his group has been involved with the RIKEN's grand challenge project for life sciences called http://www.riken.jp/engn/r-world/research/lab/rpcs/next/index.html"Next-Generation Integrated Simulation of Living Matter". We are developing (i) peta-scale computational methods for inferring molecular networks of tens of thousands nodes, and (ii) a new statistical and computational method called “data assimilation” that “blends” simulation models and observational data rationally.

1. International leadership in bioinformatics and computational biology: He organized the International Conference on Genome Informatics for 11 years since 1996. he served as program committee chairs and members for the most important international conferences on bioinformatics and computational biology such as RECOMB, ISMB, ECCB, APBC, CSB, etc. He also has been serving on editorial boards of PLoS Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, J. Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, etc.|