Keisuke Yanagisawa

Assistant Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology

Research Interests

  • Structural Bioinformatics
  • Computer-aided drug discovery
  • Protein-ligand docking
  • Cosolvent (Mixed-solvent) molecular dynamics

Work Experience

  • 2020.09-
    Part-time Lecturer - Tokyo Tech Innovation

  • 2020.04-
    Assistant Professor - Akiyama Lab., Dept. CS, School of Computing, Tokyo Institute of Technology

  • 2019.11-2020.03
    Part-time Lecturer - Tokyo Institute of Technology

  • 2019.04-2020.03
    Research Fellow (PD) - Bioinformation Engineering Lab., Dept. Biotech., The University of Tokyo

Education

  • 2010.04-2019.03
    Doctor of Engineering - Akiyama Lab., Dept. CS, School of Computing, Tokyo Institute of Technology

Awards

  • 2019 Education Award of Excellence, Tokyo Institute of Technology (2021/03/02)
    • Yoshihiro Miyake, Naoaki Okazaki, Takefumi Kanamori, Tsuyoshi Murata, Shin-ya Nishizaki, Kazuyuki Shudo, Kenji Kise, Masamichi Shimosaka, Masakazu Sekijima, Keisuke Yanagisawa, Masahiro Kuze, Mitsuji Sampei, Ichiro Yamanaka, Takehiko Itoh, Toru Takeuchi, Takeo Yamaguchi, Kei Sakaguchi. “Progressive Graduate Minor in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence”

  • Seiichi Tejima Doctoral Dissertation Award (2020/02/27)

  • Grand Prize (Schrödinger K.K. Prize), 4th Computer-Aided Drug Discovery Contest (2017/12/15)
    • Team “DD-friends” (Yusuke Matsuyama, Takanori Hayashi, Ryota Ii, Toshitaka Tanebe, Takashi Tajimi, Rin Sato, Hikaru Ikeda, Keisuke Yanagisawa) : “Compound virtual screening by hybridization of structure- and ligand-based methods”
  • Student Encouragement Prize, 2nd Computer-Aided Drug Discovery Contest (2015/07/17) [link]
    • Team “DEDENNE” (Shogo D. Suzuki, Keisuke Yanagisawa) : “c-Yes kinase inhibitor prediction with DEDENNE: Druggability Estimator by Deep Neural Network”
  • 2014 SIGBIO Best Student Presentation Award, IPSJ SIGBIO (2015/06/25) [link]
    • Keisuke Yanagisawa, Takashi Ishida, Yutaka Akiyama. “Drug clearance pathway prediction based on semi-supervised learning”, IPSJ Transactions on Bioinformatics, 8: 21-27, 2015/08. DOI: 10.2197/ipsjtbio.8.21
  • Student Encouragement Prize, 1st Computer-Aided Drug Discovery Contest (2014/07/17) [link]
    • Team “Tokyo Tech TSUBAME” (Nobuaki Yasuo, Ryunosuke Yoshino, Keisuke Yanagisawa, Tomohiro Ban) : “Compound screening with constraint docking”

  • 2013 Tokyo Institute of Technology Academic Excellence Awards, Tokyo Institute of Technology (2014/03/26)

  • Bronze Prize, 2009 High School Chemistry Grand Prix (2009/09/26)

Social Contribution

  • ICBBS Technical Committee member (2022-)

Society

  • Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ, FY2014-)
    • Special Interest Group on Bioinformatics (SIGBIO)
  • Chem-Bio Informatics Society (CBI, FY2016-)
  • The Biophysical Society of Japan (BSJ, FY2019-)
  • Japanese Society for Bioinformatics (JSBi, FY2020-)
  • The Protein Science Society of Japan (PSSJ, FY2022-)

Hobbies

  • Playing the cello (chamber music / orchestra)
  • Photography
  • Cycling
    • Road Bike (MERIDA SCULTURA400)