Masaru Tomita
is a Japanese scientist in the fields of systems biology and computer science, best known as the founder of the E-Cell simulation system and/or the inventor of GLR parser algorithm. He served a professor of Keio University, Director of the Institute for Advanced Biosciences, and the founder and board member of various spinout companies, including Human Metabolome Technologies, Inc. and Spiber Inc. He is also the co-founder and on the board of directors of The Metabolomics Society. His father was the renowned composer and synthesiser pioneer Isao Tomita.From Oct. 2005 to Sep. 2007, he served as Dean of Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, Keio University.
He received an M.S. (1983) and a Ph.D. (1985) in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) under Jaime Carbonell, and three other doctoral degrees in electronic engineering (Kyoto University, 1994), molecular biology (Keio University, 1998), and media and governance (Keio University, 2019).
At CMU, starting in 1985, Tomita achieved a series of academic promotions from assistant professor to associate professor of computer science and from 1986 he became an associate director of the Center for Machine Translation.
In 1990, he returned to Keio University and served as associate professor, professor, and Dean of the faculty of Environmental Information. At Keio University, he shifted his research emphasis to the studies of molecular biology and systems biology. In 2001, he founded Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Keio University in Tsuruoka City, Yamagata Prefecture, and served as Director of the institute until 2023.
Tomita is a recipient of the Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation of the USA (1988), IBM Japan Science Prize (2002), IBM Shared University Research Award (2003), Minister of Science and Technology Policy Award (2004), The Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (2007), Audi Innovation Award (2016), International Metabolomics Society Lifetime Honorary Fellow (2017), 68th Kahoku Bunka Prize (2019), 5th Bioindustry Award Grand Prize (2021), and 27th Momofuku Ando Award Grand Prize (2023). Provided by Wikipedia
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27by Ryoji Yanashima, Ryoji Yanashima, Noriyuki Kitagawa, Noriyuki Kitagawa, Yoshiya Matsubara, Yoshiya Matsubara, Robert Weatheritt, Kotaro Oka, Shinichi Kikuchi, Shinichi Kikuchi, Masaru Tomita, Masaru Tomita, Shun IshizakiGet full text
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29by Hiroshi Fujishima, Naoko Okada, Kenji Matsumoto, Eisuke Shimizu, Shinji Fukuda, Masaru TomitaGet full text
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30by Yukino Ogawa, Nobuya Koike, Gen Kurosawa, Tomoyoshi Soga, Masaru Tomita, Hajime TeiGet full text
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31by Kiyofumi Hamashima, Masaru Mori, Yoshiki Andachi, Masaru Tomita, Yuji Kohara, Akio KanaiGet full text
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39by Masafumi Harada, Kohei Ito, Nobuyoshi Nakajima, Shigeki Yamamura, Masaru Tomita, Haruo Suzuki, Seigo AmachiGet full text
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