KEI TOKITA: CURRICULUM VITAE (June 2013)
Personal Information:
First Name: Keiichiro
Family Name: Tokita
Address:
Room 716(7F), Graduate School of Information Scinece Building
Many Body System Group
Department of Complex Systems Science
Graduate School of Information Science
Nagoya University
Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan
Tel: +81-52-789-4736
E-mail : tokita@nagoya-u.jp, tokita@is.nagoya-u.ac.jp, kei.tokita@gmail.com
Degress: M.Sci.(Waseda University), Ph.D.(University of Tokyo)
Current Position:
2013 - Professor, Graduate School of Information Science, Nagoya University
Education:
1994 Ph.D. - University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Dissertation: "Replica Symmetry Breaking and Multivalley Energy
Landscape in the Hopfield Model" Advisor - Dr. Kunihiko Kaneko
1991 M.S. - Waseda University
1989 B.S. - Waseda University
Research Interest:
Theoretical studies on complex systems: large-scale ecological
systems, protein sciences(foldings, inverse foldings, evolution
and design), neural networks and learning theories, and combinatorial
optimization problems.
Previous Experience:
2013- Visiting Professor, Cybermedia Center, Osaka University
2013- Professor, Graduate School of Information Science, Nagoya University
2012- Research Fellow, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature
2002-2013 Associate Professor, Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University (concurrently appointed).
2000-2013 Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Osaka University (concurrently appointed).
2000-2004 Research Fellow, National Institute for Fusion Science.
1994-2000 Assistant Professor, Condensed Matter Theory Group, Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Osaka University.
1994- Research Fellow, The Institute of Statistical Mathematics.
1992 "Atoms" visiting research fellow, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University.
Other Appointment:
Foreign Research Institutes and Universities:
2003-2004 MEXT (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan)
visiting research fellow in the Program for Evoludionary Dynamics in Harvard University.
1996-1998 JSPS(Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) Young Faculty
Fellowships for Research Abroad in the Shakhnovich group in
the Harvard University chemistry department.
1995-1996 VBL(Venture Buisiness Laboratory in Osaka University) visiting
research fellow in the Shakhnovich group in the Harvard
University chemistry department.
Lecturer in Universities in Japan:
2015 Visiting Professor, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, "Special Course of Ecology" for graduate students.
2014 Visiting Professor, Department of Science, "Introduction to Ecology" for undergraduate students.
2013 Visiting Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technoloyg, Graduate School of Bioscience and Biotechnology.
2013 Visiting Associate Professor, University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, "Statistical Mechanics of Ecosystems" for Ph.D Course students.
2010 Visiting Associate Professor, Kobe University, Graduate School of System Informatics, "Large-scale Numerical Simulations" for Ph.D course students.
2010 Visiting Associate Professor, Niigata University, Department of Physics, "Biological Physics" for undergraduate students.
2007 Visiting Associate Professor, Kobe University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, "Introduction to complex systems" for graduate students.
2006 Visiting Associate Professor, Osaka Wemen's University, Department of Environmental Sciences, "Introduction to complex systems" for undergraduate students.
2005 Visiting Associate Professor, Hiroshima University, Department of Mathematical and Life Sciences, "Introduction to complex systems" for graduate and undergraduate students.
2003 Visiting associate professor, Shizuoka University, Graduate School of Science and Technology,
"Complex systems" for graduate students.
2002 Visiting associate professor, Nagaoka University of Technology, Graduate School of
Bioengineering, "Complex systems" for graduate students.
2001 Visiting associte professor, Kobe University, Graduate School of Science, "Complex systems"
for graduate students.
Awards and fellowships:
2010 Grants from Interchange Association Japan and Taiwan National Science Council for visiting
Taiwanese universities and research institutes and attending international conferences.
2009 JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) grant for attending international conferences
2005 JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) grant for attending international conferences
2003-2004 MEXT (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan)
visiting research fellow
1996-1998 JSPS visiting research fellow
1995-1996 VBL(Venture Buisiness Laboratory in Osaka University) visiting
research fellow in the Shakhnovich group in the Harvard
University chemistry department.
1992 "Atoms" visiting research fellow, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics.
1990-1991 Asahi Kasei Corporation scholarship.
1989-1994 Japan Scholarship Foundation scholarship.
Research Grants:
2012 Grants-in-Aid from the Ministry of Educatoin, Culture, Sports,
Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan (4,400,000yen)
2008 Grants-in-Aid from the Ministry of Educatoin, Culture, Sports,
Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan (3,500,000yen)
2007 Grants-in-Aid from the Ministry of Educatoin, Culture, Sports,
Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan (3,500,000yen)
2006 Goho Life Science International Fund, Japan (450,000yen)
2006 Grants-in-Aid from the Ministry of Educatoin, Culture, Sports,
Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan (3,500,000yen)
2005 Grants-in-Aid from the Ministry of Educatoin, Culture, Sports,
Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan (3,500,000yen)
2005-2006 Grants-in-Aid from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports,
Science and Technology of Japan (2,500,000yen by 4 members).
2005 JSPS grant for attending international conferences (about 350,000yen)
2003-2004 Fellowships for Research Abroad, the Ministry of Education,
Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan (about 5,500,000yen)
2002-2004 Grants-in-Aid from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports,
Science and Technology of Japan (3,100,000yen).
2001-2002 Grants-in-Aid from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports,
Science and Technology of Japan (3,500,000yen by 3 members).
2000-2001 Grants-in-Aid from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports,
Science and Technology of Japan (2,500,000yen).
1999-2000 Grants-in-Aid from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports,
Science and Technology of Japan (4,100,000yen by 3 members).
1998-1999 Grants-in-Aid from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports,
Science and Technology of Japan (2,500,000yen).
1997-1998 Postdoctral Fellowships for Research Abroad, Japan Society
for the Promotion of Science (about 10,000,000yen).
1995-1996 Grants-in-Aid from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports,
Science and Technology of Japan (4,200,000yen).
Reviewer:
American Naturalist
The European Physical Journal B - Condensed Matter and Complex Systems
Ecological Informatics
Ecological Modeling
Eological Research
IEICE TRANSACTIONS
Japanese Journal of Information Processing Society of Japan
Japanese Journal of Ecology
Journal of Physical Society of Japan
Journal of Physics
Journal of Theoretical Biology
Physical Review Letters
Population Ecology
Progress of Theoretical Physics
Scientific Reports
Transactions of the Japanese Society for Artificail Intelligence
Academic Societies:
Ecological Society of Japan
Japan Society for Evolution
Japan Society of Mathematical Biology (Steering Committee 2003-2008, 2011-2014, Information Committee 2003-2010, Information Committee Chair 2006-2008)
Physical Society of Japan
Society of Population Ecology