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​SEIYA IMOTO

Academic Career:

2023 – Vice dean of the Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo

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)

Nippon Professional Baseball NPB Special Award (November, 2022)

2022 J League Special Award

2023  Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and      Technology in the category of Science and Technology Promotion

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