Member of The Engineering Academy of Japan; Acting Director of the Artificial Intelligence Center for Health and Biomedical Research (ArCHER) at the National Institutes of Biomedical Innovation, Health and Nutrition (NIBIOHN). Project Leader of the Laboratory of Bioinformatics at ArCHER. Specially Appointed Professor, Institute of Advanced Medical Sciences, Tokushima University, Japan; Specially Appointed Professor, Institute for Protein Research (IPR) of Osaka University, Japan.