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■ Researchers（April.1st.2024）

Database Center for Life Science
Polar Environment Data Science Center
Center for Social Data Structuring
Center for Open Data in the Humanities
Center for Genome Informatics
Center for Data Assimilation Research and Applications
Center for Juris-Informatics
Data Science Promotion Section

■ Researchers（April.1st.2024）

2024年4月1日

Database Center for Life Science

Post	Name	Research Themes
Director/Project Professor	KOHARA, Yuji	Advanced genomics for knowledge discovery
Vice Director/Professor	GOTO, Susumu	Database integration and its application for life science
Vice Director/Project Professor	KATAYAMA, Toshiaki	Research and development of database integration for data science
Project Associate Professor	KAWASHIMA, Shuichi	Databases integration using semantic web technology
Project Associate Professor	KIM Jin-Dong	Improvement of productivity and usability of databases using natural language processing technology
Project Associate Professor	HATANAKA, Hideki	Data science on foods, allergy, plants, viruses or structural biology
Research Coordinator/Project Associate Professor	MINOWA, Mari	International standardization on data use and guideline formulation
Project Associate Professor	YAMAMOTO, Yasunori	Technology development for database integration using text processing and semantic web technology
Project Associate Professor	KAWASHIMA, Minae	Human Genetics, ELSI in human data sharing
Project Assistant Professor	CHIBA, Hirokazu	Technology development for database integration
Project Assistant Professor	FUJIWARA, Toyofumi	Database integration and its application for rare genetic diseases
Project Assistant Professor	MORIYA, Yuki	Omics database construction and its application

Polar Environment Data Science Center

Post	Name	Research Themes
Director/Project Professor	KADOKURA, Akira	Space and Upper Atmospheric Sciences data
Associate Professor	KANAO, Masaki	NIPR Science Database, Seismology and Solid Earth Geophysics data
Associate Professor	TAKAHASHI, Kunio	Bioscience (Marine Ecology) database and analysis
Associate Professor	TANAKA, Yoshimasa	Space and Upper Atmospheric Sciences database and analysis IUGONET（Inter-university Upper atmosphere Global Observation NETwork) system
Assistant Professor	OKUNO, Jun'ichi	Geophysics database and analysis
Project Researcher	KOZAI, Masayoshi	Multidisciplinary Database development, Cosmic ray data analysis
Professor (Concurrently)	KUDO, Sakae	Bioscience database and analysis
Professor (Concurrently)	TSUTSUMI, Masaki	Radar observation data analysis
Professor (Concurrently)	OGAWA, Yasunobu	Space and Upper Atmospheric Sciences database and analysis
Associate Professor (Concurrently)	TOMIKAWA, Yoshihiro	Middle Atmosphere Science data analysis
Professor (Concurrently)	HOKADA, Tomokazu	Geology database and analysis
Associate Professor (Concurrently)	YAMAGUCHI, Akira	Meteorite database and analysis
Project Assistant Professor (Concurrently)	HIRASAWA, Naohiko	Meteorology database and analysis
Project Assistant Professor (Concurrently)	HASHIMOTO, Taishi	Radar observation data analysis

Center for Social Data Structuring

Post	Name	Research Themes
Director/Associate Professor	MAEDA, Tadahiko	Sampling in social surveys. General topics on survey methodology and survey data management.
Professor (Concurrently)	YAMASHITA, Satoshi	Developing methods of Data Matching and Structuring
Professor (Concurrently)	ECHIZEN, Isao	Security and Privacy in Social Media
Professor (Concurrently)	MINAMI, Kazuhiro	Statistical Disclosure Control, Anonymization for Privacy Protection
Associate Professor (Concurrently)	MIZUNO, Takayuki	Integration of data science with politics and economics
Project Assistant Professor	SHIBAI, Kiyohisa	Studies of international relations with game-theoretic approach, Quantitative analysis of cross-national surveys
Project Assistant Professor	XUE, Yujie	Applications of time series analysis using micro data
Project Assistant Professor	TAKEISHI, Shota	Detection of heterogeneous subgroups of policy effects and their applications
Project Researcher	Tanaka, Yasuhiro	Data sharing and Compliance management system based on legal risk assessment

Center for Open Data in the Humanities

Post	Name	Research Themes
Director/Professor	KITAMOTO, Asanobu	Digital humanities in general, machine learning application, Historical document analysis(OCR)
Associate Professor (Concurrently)	MOCHIHASHI, Daichi	Statistical natural language processing, machine learning
Project Assistant Professor	ICHINO, Mika	Historical big data, Interactions between climate and society variations using historical materials
Project Researcher	OGAWA, Jun	Digital history, Historical big data
Project Researcher	KATO, Kanji	Creation and utilization of language material database
Project Researcher	Xiaoxing WANG	Historical daily weather reconstruction system

Center for Genome Informatics

Post	Name	Research Themes
Director/Project Professor	NOGUCHI, Hideki	Genome sequence analyses
Project Associate Professor	KOSUGI, Shunichi	Development of methods for detecting genomic variations, including single nucleotide variations (SNVs), short indels (indels), structural variations (SVs), and variable number of tandem repeat (VNTR). Association analysis for genomic variants with phenotypic traits.
Project Associate Professor	Kirill　Kryukov	Biological databases, genomics, metagenomics, development of tools and pipelines.
Project Researcher	MIYAZAWA, Hideyuki	De novo genome assembly and development of genome polishing tool
Project Researcher	TERAUCHI, Makoto	Development of RNA-seq assembler and genome resequencing

Center for Data Assimilation Research and Applications

Post	Name	Research Themes
Director/Professor	Ueno, Genta	Data assimilation system for geosciences
Professor (Concurrently)	Nakano, Shin'ya	Data assimilation for high-dimensional systems, Data analysis based on state space model, Statistical emulator
Research Coordinator/Associate Professor	Murakami, Daisuke	Spatial data analysis, Geographic Information System, Mining of urban environmental data
Project Professor	Fujita, Shigeru	Development of the magnetosphere-ionosphere MHD simulation and application of the data assimilation
Project Researcher	LIN Zhiheng	Tsunami data assimilation study for improving tsunami early warning
Professor (Concurrently)	Kimura, Akatsuki	Data assimilation for biosciences
Professor (Concurrently)	Ogawa, Yasunobu	Data analysis of aeronomy based on data assimilation and related statistical methods

Center for Juris-Informatics

Post	Name	Research Themes
Director/Project Professor	SATOH, Ken	juris-informatics
Vice Director/Professor (Concurrently)	TAKEDA, Hideaki	Legal Ontology and Knowledge Graph, Ontology and Knowledge Graph in Society

Data Science Promotion Section

Post	Name	Research Themes
Research Coordinator/Project Associate Professor	BABA, Tomoya	You may contact us via email about the organization or activities of our centers, or about collaboration proposals on the subjects you may not find proper contact person.
Research Coordinator/Project Associate Professor	MINOWA, Mari