Yutaka Akiyama
Senior Visiting Scientist at Institute of Science Tokyo
Tokyo, Japan
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Top SchoolYutaka Akiyama is a senior scientist and professor specializing in high-performance computing for bioinformatics, with a Ph.D. from Keio University and a career spanning academia, government research institutes, and national labs. He has directed major computational biology centers and education programs, currently serving as Senior Visiting Scientist at RIKEN and Professor at the Institute of Science Tokyo after nearly two decades at Tokyo Institute of Technology. His research blends parallel computing and bioinformatics applications—metagenome analysis, protein docking, and mass spectrometry—driving scalable solutions for large biological datasets. As president of the Initiative for Parallel Bioinformatics and board member of key national bioinformatics communities, he shapes research agendas and community infrastructure in Japan. Colleagues know him for translating deep computer-architecture expertise into practical tools for computational life sciences and for mentoring cross-disciplinary teams. Based in Tokyo, he combines long-term institutional leadership with hands-on HPC problem solving that often targets bottlenecks overlooked by domain-only researchers.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at 慶応義塾大学 / Keio University
Japanese, English
Github Skills (2)
cuda2
gpu2
Github contributions (1)
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