Satoshi Kume
Scientist at Illumina
Osaka, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolSatoshi Kume is a scientist and bioinformatician with 11+ years bridging experimental protein science, multi-omics, and computational informatics across RIKEN, academia, a biotech startup, and now Illumina. He holds a Ph.D. in Applied Life Sciences and has hands-on experience in NGS, metabolomics, EM bioimaging, ML-based image analysis, and creating bioimage/metadatabase infrastructure. More recently he has applied semantic technologies and Linked Open Data to automate polymer terminology construction and to mine articles and patents using RDF/SPARQL and NLP. An active Bioconductor contributor and R enthusiast, he codes across R, Python, Shell and JavaScript to turn complex biological data into reusable tools and databases. He also brings product-minded experience from co-founding Kokorotics, where he led human-subject data analysis, ethics processes, and technical PR—highlighting a rare mix of deep wet‑lab insight and production informatics.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Foreign exchange program, College of Agriculture,, Foreign exchange program, College of Agriculture, at University of the Philippines Los BañosBachelor of Science - BS, Course of Agriculture (Molecular life science), Bachelor of Science - BS, Course of Agriculture (Molecular life science) at Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary MedicinePh.D. in Applied Life Sciences, Protein Science, Ph.D. in Applied Life Sciences, Protein Science at Osaka Prefecture University
Japanese, English
Github Skills (26)
bioconductor7
biomedical6
medical5
api5
r5
image5
web-application5
convolutional-neural-networks5
medical-image-analysis4
imaging4
deep-learning4
image-analysis4
plumber4
python4
react4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
kumeS/chatAI4R
Apr 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:14 releases, 179 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
kumeS/GoogleImage2Array
Nov 2021 - Dec 2022
Contributions:1 release, 4 commits, 52 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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