I went to medical school with the intention of becoming a researcher in basic medicine and worked as a clinician for several years after graduation. However, I ended up becoming an applied mathematician because I was keenly aware of the importance of methods for extracting information from data since my student days, and I wanted to contribute to medicine through theoretical research on methods for analysing biological data.
My research is therefore related to mathematical science, information science, statistical science and life science, but my specialisation is in discrete mathematics (combinatorics, graph theory, discrete geometry, discrete algorithms), which deals with problems related to graphs and networks. I believe that my strength and originality lie in formulating important biological problems into mathematical problems and creating new theorems and algorithms to solve them.
I am currently particularly interested in the mathematical and computational aspects of phylogenetic trees and networks and their applications. Studying them can help elucidate many important biological processes, such as cell differentiation and bacterial or viral evolution.
I am also active in education and outreach activities. For more information, please visit my laboratory's YouTube channel.
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