MEIcenter in silico medicine

[Name]	Hideki OKA (Specially Appointed Professor)
[Affiliation]	The Center for Advanced Medical Engineering and Informatics, Osaka University Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University

[Research Interests]	Integrated Development Environment -in silico IDE- for Dynamical System Modeling of Physiological Functions. FEM based High Performance Computing applicationFEM based High Performance Computing application
[Keywords]	Large Scale Simulation Technology
[History]	Hideki OKA received his B.S. degree and M.S. degree from Department of Basic Science, the University of Tokyo, in 1975 and 1977 respectively. He entered Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. and was engaged in semiconductor device modeling and device/process simulation. In 1990, he moved CRAY Japan and Nihon Silicon Graphics and took jobs of HPC application support and development and Massive Parallel Machine promotion. He returned Fujitsu Laboratories in 2000 and managed next generation semiconductor technology development team. From 2008, he stationed in Osaka University from Fujitsu BioIT Business Development UNIT. He took up the current position as specially appointed professor at the Center for Advanced Medical Engineering and Informatics (MEI Center) in Osaka University in 2010.

[Name]	Hiromi DAIYASU (Specially Appointed Associate Professor)
[Affiliation]	The Center for Advanced Medical Engineering and Informatics, Osaka University School of Information Science and Technology, Osaka University

[Research Interests]	Molecular evolution of protein functions Bioinformatics
[Keywords]	Molecular Evolution, Protein Engineering
[History]	She received her B.S. degree from Osaka University in 1985, and her Ph.D. from Tokyo University of Science in 2004. 1985-1989 Sumitomo Pharma Co. Ltd. 1990-1995 Protein Engineering Research Institute 1995-2002 Biomolecular Engineering Research Institute 2002-2005 Chemical Research, Kyoto Univ. 2005- The Center for Advanced Medical Engineering and Informatics, Osaka Univ.

[Name]	Masakazu YAGI (Specially Appointed Associate Professor)
[Affiliation]	The Center for Advanced Medical Engineering and Informatics, Osaka University Graduate School of Dentistry, Osaka University

[Research Interests]	in silico Modeling of human morphology and dynamics in silico modeling of expert decisions on the basis of expertise knowledge
[Keywords]	Mathematical modeling of biological system, decision-making model, face
[History]	He received the B. S. degree, the M. S. degree in information and communication engineering, and the Ph. D. degree in electronic engineering, all from the University of Tokyo, in 1998, 2000, and 2003, respectively. From April 2003 to June 2006, he was a research associate at Department of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics, Graduate School of Dentistry, Osaka University. In July 2006, he became a lecturer at Department of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics, Osaka University Dental Hospital. Since March 2008, he has been a specially appointed associate professor at the Center for Advanced Medical Engineering and Informatics (MEI Center), Osaka University.

[Name]	Kazunori NOZAKI (Specially Appointed Lecturer)
[Affiliation]	The Center for Advanced Medical Engineering and Informatics, Osaka University Cybermedia Center, Osaka University

[Research Interests]	The theory of human fricative voice
[Keywords]	Aeroacoustics, Speech, Computational oral science
[History]	He recieved his D.D.S. from Hokkaido University in 2000, and his Ph.D. from Osaka University in 2004. He was post doc fellow at Cybermedia Center from 2004 to 2009. His current research work is focusing on a numerical simulat ion method adapted to the fricative voice and its clinic al applications. He was awarded HPC Analytics Challenge Finalist in 2006. He is a member of IPSJ and ASJ.

[Name]	Rachid Ait Haddou (Specially Appointed Lecturer)
[Affiliation]	The Center for Advanced Medical Engineering and Informatics, Osaka University Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University

[Research Interests]	Geometric Modeling, Computer Aided Geometric Design Mathematical Modeling of Biological Systems Ratchet Theory and Molecular Motors Muscle Mechanics
[Keywords]	Geometric Design, Approximation Theory, Cross-Bridge Mechanics, Molecular Motors
[History]	Rachid Ait Haddou received his BS degree (1991) in Applied Mathematics from Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco. He received his M.S and Ph.D. degree (1996) in Applied Mathematics from Joseph Fourier University at the Laboratory of Modeling and Scientific Computing, Grenoble, France. In 1998, he moved to Calgary University as a postdoctoral fellow and then as a researcher at the Faculty of Kinesiology, Calgary, Canada. In March 2008, he joined the Medical Engineering and Informatics Center as a specially appointed lecturer.

[Name]	Yoshiyuki KIDO (Specially Appointed Assistant Professor)
[Affiliation]	The Center for Advanced Medical Engineering and Informatics, Osaka University Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Osaka University

[Research Interests]	Data Integration of Life Science Databases for Simulators of Human Functions
[Keywords]	Grid Computing, Data Grid, Data Integration
[History]	He received his B.E. degree from Osaka Sangyo University in 1999. He had engaged in the designing and development of enterprise system at Liberty System Ltd. from 1999 to 2002. After that, he joined Mitsui Knowledge Industry Ltd. in 2002 and has been working for the research and development for Grid systems since then. Also, he was Ph.D student at the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Osaka University from 2005 to 2008. His concern of research is Grid portal and Data Grid middleware for life science researches. From April, 2008, he took up the current position at MEI Center.

[Name]	Daisuke YAMASAKI (Specially Appointed Assistant Professor)
[Affiliation]	The Center for Advanced Medical Engineering and Informatics, Osaka University Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Science, Osaka University

[Research Interests]	Analysis of anticancer effect by nuclear receptor ligand In silico identification of low molecular weight compound interacting protein for side effect prediction
[Keywords]	Nuclear receptor ligand，Cancer
[History]	1999.3 Faculty of Pharmaceutical Science, Tohoku University Bachelor degree graduation 2003.3 Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Science, Tohoku University Master's degree completion 2006.3 Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Science, Osaka University Doctorate degree completion Ph.D. (Pharmacy) 2006.4 Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Science Research fellow 2007.12 The Center for Advanced Medical Engineering and Informatics, Osaka University Research associate (Specially appointed) Special employment