Division of Health Medical Intelligence,
Laboratory of Sequence Analysis,
Human Genome Center
Institute of Medical Science,
Univeristy of Tokyo

SEIYA IMOTO
Academic Career:
2020 – current: Professor, Division of Health Medical Intelligence, Human Genome Center, Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo
2019: Assistant of President of The University of Tokyo
2017 – 2020: Director of Health Intelligence Center, Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo
2016 – current: Advisor (Medical Statistics) of Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare
2015 – current: Visiting Professor of Medical Research Institute, Tokyo Medical and Dental University
2015 – 2020: Professor of Division of Health Medical Data Analysis, Health Intelligence Center, Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo
2014 – 2015: Planning Group Member (Mathematics/Informatics), Japan-France Frontier of Science, JSPS
2007 –2015: Associate Professor of Laboratory of DNA Information Analysis, Human Genome Center, Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo
2001 –2007: Assistant Professor of Laboratory of DNA Information Analysis, Human Genome Center, Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo
2001: Postdoctoral Fellow of Laboratory of DNA Information Analysis, Human Genome Center, Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo
1999 –2001: Young Research Fellow (DC2: Statistical Science) of the Japanese Society of Promotion of Science (JSPS)
Education:
April 1, 1998 – March 31, 2001: Ph.D. course of Graduate School of Mathematics, Kyushu University (Major: Statistics)
April 1, 1996 – March 31, 1998: Master course of Graduate School of Mathematics, Kyushu University
April 1, 1992 – March 31, 1996: Department of Mathematics, Undergraduate School of Kyushu University
Specialty: Computational Biology, Statistics
Research Topics: Genome sequence data analysis, Metagenome data analysis, Immunogenomics, Big data analysis, Bayesian statistics, Disease risk prediction, Supercomputing in bioinformatics
Award:
2020 J League Chairman Special Award (December, 2020)
Nippon Professional Baseball NPB Special Award (December, 2020)
The 2021 Good Practice Award from the Society for Risk Analysis, Japan(November, 2021)