MOMASAHITO OHUESCIENCE TOKYO

MASAHITO OHUE

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Department of Computer Science, School of Computing, Institute of Science Tokyo
Associate Professor

Primary graduate major: Artificial Intelligence. Secondary graduate major: Computer Science.

Education and career

  • April 2002: Entered the Department of Electronics and Information Engineering, Ishikawa National College of Technology.
  • March 2007: Graduated at the top of the class from Ishikawa National College of Technology.
  • April 2007: Transferred into the third year of the Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology.
  • March 2009: B.Eng., Tokyo Institute of Technology.
  • April 2009: Entered the master’s program in the Department of Computer Science, Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology.
  • March 2011: M.Eng., Tokyo Institute of Technology.
  • March 2014: Ph.D. in Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology (degree number 6564).
  • April 2011 to March 2014: JSPS Research Fellow (DC1).
  • April 2014 to March 2015: JSPS Research Fellow (PD) and Research Fellow, Tokyo Institute of Technology.
  • April 2015 to March 2016: Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology.
  • April 2016 to March 2020: Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, School of Computing, Tokyo Institute of Technology (following an organizational restructuring).
  • April 2016 to March 2020: Concurrent appointment in the Smart Drug Discovery Research Unit, Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology.
  • April 2020 to December 2023: Tenure-track Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, School of Computing, Tokyo Institute of Technology.
  • January 2024 to present: Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, School of Computing. The institution became Institute of Science Tokyo in October 2024.

Professional and external service

  • Member, MEXT Committee for the Promotion of AI for Science (2026 to present).
  • Expert investigator, Science and Technology Foresight Center, National Institute of Science and Technology Policy, MEXT (2017 to present).
  • Board member, Biophysical Society of Japan (2015 to 2021).
  • Representative, Biophysical Society of Japan (2015 to 2017; 2019 to 2021).
  • Member, Committee for Gender Equality and Support for Young Researchers, Biophysical Society of Japan (2015 to 2021).
  • Field-specific expert committee member, Biophysical Society of Japan (2019 to present).
  • Senior Member, Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ) (2023 to present).
  • Steering committee member, IPSJ SIGBIO (2017 to 2021).
  • Secretary, IPSJ SIGMPS (2020 to present); steering committee member (2019 to 2020).
  • Editorial board member, IPSJ Transactions on Bioinformatics (2015 to 2019); Vice Chair (2019 to present).
  • Editorial board member, IPSJ Transactions on Mathematical Modeling and Its Applications (2022 to present).
  • Topics committee member for the journal of the Japan Bioindustry Association (2017 to 2020).
  • Board member and secretary, Japanese Society for Bioinformatics (JSBi) (2020 to present).
  • Board member and steering committee member, Initiative for Parallel Bioinformatics (IPAB) (2019 to present).
  • Organizing committee member, IPAB IT Drug Discovery Contest (2016 to present).

Conference service

  • CBI Society Annual Meeting 2026: Organizing and Program Committees.
  • IIBMP2026: Organizing Committee.
  • IIBMP2025: Program Committee.
  • CBI Society Annual Meeting 2025: Organizing and Program Committees.
  • IEEE BIBM 2024: Program Committee.
  • CBI Society Annual Meeting 2024: Program Committee.
  • Mathematical Modeling and Problem Solving Satellite Workshop, PDPTA'26, PDPTA'25, PDPTA'24, PDPTA'23, PDPTA'22 and PDPTA'21: Workshop Chair.
  • Mathematical Modeling and Problem Solving Satellite Workshop, PDPTA'20: Program Committee.
  • GIW/ISCB Asia 2022: Program Committee.
  • AHeDD2019/IPAB2019 Joint Symposium: Local Organizing Committee Chair.
  • GIW2018, IIBMP2018, GIW2015, and PRIB2014: Program Committee.

Editorial work

  • Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences: Associate Editor.
  • IPSJ Transactions on Bioinformatics.

Journal reviewing

Nature Communications; Communications Biology; Communications Chemistry; PeerJ; npj Genomic Medicine; npj Systems Biology and Applications; The Journal of Supercomputing; SLAS Discovery; Digital Discovery; Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling; Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation; Journal of Computational Chemistry; Bioinformatics; Bioinformatics Advances; Biophysics and Physicobiology; BMC Bioinformatics; BMC Genomics; BMC Systems Biology; BMC Medical Genomics; Molecular Informatics; IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics; IEEE Access; Computational Biology and Chemistry; Bioscience Reports; IPSJ Transactions on Bioinformatics; International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics; Protein and Peptide Letters; Frontiers in Robotics and AI; Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences; IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems (D).

Teaching

Courses

  • Information Experiments I, Department of Computer Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology (2015).
  • Fundamentals of Procedural Programming, Department of Computer Science, School of Computing, Tokyo Institute of Technology (2016 to 2019).
  • Artificial Intelligence Forum, Graduate Major in Artificial Intelligence, Tokyo Institute of Technology (2016 to 2019).
  • Advanced Procedural Programming, Department of Computer Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology (2020 to 2025).
  • Medical and Health Informatics, Department of Computer Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology (2022 to 2026).
  • Information Science and Engineering Literacy, School of Computing, Tokyo Institute of Technology: one lecture in an omnibus course (2022); class instructor (2023 to 2024).
  • Bioinformatics, Department of Computer Science, School of Computing, Institute of Science Tokyo (2026).

Part-time teaching

  • Advanced AI Drug Discovery, Medical and Drug Discovery Data Science Consortium, Institute of Science Tokyo (2025 and 2026).
  • Advanced AI Drug Discovery, Medical and Drug Discovery Data Science Consortium, Tokyo Medical and Dental University (2019).

University service

  • Management committee member, Earth History Museum, Tokyo Institute of Technology (2016 to 2018).
  • Admissions committee member, Graduate Major in Artificial Intelligence, Department of Computer Science, School of Computing, Institute of Science Tokyo (2020 to present).
  • School safety and health committee member (2021 to 2024).
  • Sub-PD, Total Health Design Visionary Initiative, Institute of Science Tokyo (2026 to present).

Memberships

Research interests

  • Bioinformatics and computational biology: protein interactions, biophysics, structural biology, and systems biology.
  • Chemoinformatics: molecular design, virtual screening, protein-ligand docking, and protein-ligand interactions.
  • Machine learning and artificial intelligence.

Personal interests

Saxophone ensembles, music arrangement, mahjong, poker, and cats.

Qualifications and skills

  • Ordinary motor vehicle driver’s license (now classified as a medium-sized vehicle license).
  • Systems Administrator Examination.
  • Fundamental Information Technology Engineer Examination.
  • Software Design and Development Engineer Examination.
  • JSBi Certified Bioinformatics Engineer.
  • Digital Technology Certification Examination, Level 1, Information division (MEXT Minister’s Encouragement Award).
  • Digital Technology Certification Examination, Level 2, Control division.
  • JDLA Deep Learning for GENERAL (G Certificate), 2026 #4.
  • Yamaha Electone Performance Grade 6.
  • Absolute pitch.