Kengo SATO, Ph. D, Assistant Professor
Department of Biosciences and Informatics, Keio University, Japan

E-mail: satoken [at] bio.keio.ac.jp

Research Interests

• Computational Biology, Bioinformatics
• Sequence Analysis
• Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition
• Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing

Education and Job Career

• 2011.04-present: Assistant Professor, Keio University
• 2009.11-2011.03: Assistant Professor, University of Tokyo
  
• 2006.04-2009.10: Research Scientist, Japan Biological Informatics Consortium
  
• 2004.04-2006.03: Guest lecturer, Senshu University
• 2003.04-2006.03: Research Associate, Keio University
• 2001.07-2002.02: Exploratory Software Project, IPA
• 2000.09-2001.03: Guest lecturer, Keio University
• 1999.04-2002.03: Guest lecturer, Otsuma Woman's University
• 2003.03: Ph.D. Computer Science, Keio University
• 1997.03: M.Eng. Computer Science, Keio University
• 1995.03: B.Sc. Mathematics, Keio University

Society

• Japanese Society for Bioinformatics
• International Society for Computational Biology
• Information Processing Society of Japan
• Association for Natural Language Processing
  
• The Molecular Biology Society of Japan
• The RNA Society of Japan

Awards

• Oxford Journals JSBi Prize (JSBi 2008 Best Poster Award)

Software

• DAFS for simultaneous aligning and folding RNA sequences by dual decomposition [ncrna.org] [google code]
• IPknot for predicting RNA secondary structures including pseudoknots [ncrna.org] [google code]
• RactIP for predicting RNA-RNA interaction [ncrna.org] [google code]
  
• CentroidFold [ncrna.org]
• BPLA kernels for functional RNA analysis [keio univ]
• DAG kernels for RNA analysis [ncrna.org]
• stem kernels for RNA analysis [ncrna.org][keio univ]
• PHMMTS [keio univ][ncrna.org]
• PSTAG [keio univ][ncrna.org]