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  YUKI SHIMAHARA

  Dr. Shimahara completed his graduate studies and Ph.D. at the Graduate School of Frontier Sciences at the University of Tokyo. Dr. Shimahara started his career at GREE Inc., where he took part in business strategy and human resources management. At the second IT firm, he gained experience in global business development. Dr. Shimahara later established LPIXEL Inc. in March 2014 along with his two colleagues studying in the same university laboratory. Dr. Shimahara was selected to join the Next Innovator 2015 Project in Silicon Valley, which was hosted by the Japan METI. Dr. Shimahara was also featured in Forbes Asia 30 under 30.

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  NATSUMARO KUTSUNA

  Dr. Kutsuna completed his graduate studies and Ph.D. at the Graduate School of Frontier Sciences at the University of Tokyo. Dr. Kutsuna also serves as an Associate Professor at the University of Tokyo. In 2001, Dr. Kutsuna participated in a study which was adopted by Exploratory IT Human Resources Project (IPA). Dr. Kutsuna’s works have also received honorable mentions in business competitions in Japan. Aside from academia, Dr. Kutsuna has won in Japanese computer Shogi competitions.

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  KAZUMI HAKAMADA

  Dr. Hakamada received his Ph. D. from the Graduate School of Systems Life Sciences at Kyushu University. Dr. Hakamada served as assistant professor at University of Tokyo and Osaka University. At both universities, he researched the relationship between gene expression and cell division by using time lapse imagings of cells. Prior to joining LPIXEL, Dr. Hakamada served as senior researcher at IVD company and researched recognition of pathological images by deep learning. Dr. Hakamada was hornored with the excellent paper award at the Society for Biotechnology Japan in 2011.

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  HIROKI KAWAI

  Dr. Kawai completed his graduate studies and Ph.D. at the Graduate School of Frontier Sciences at the University of Tokyo, where Dr. Kawai engaged in a research of homeostatic regulation of neural stem cells. Dr. Kawai performed as a research fellow at the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (DC1), as well as a researcher at the University of Tokyo conducting research on neural stem cells. Dr. Kawai currently serves as a visiting researcher at the University of Tokyo.

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  KO SUGAWARA

  As a Ph.D. holder, as well as a pharmacist, from the University of Tokyo in Pharmaceutical Sciences, Dr. Sugawara currently works as a researcher in the field of biophysics. His research revolves around the nanoscale localization and dynamics analysis of intracellular mRNA using single-molecule fluorescence microscopy.

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  CHANGHEE HAN

  Dr. Han obtained his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from The University of Tokyo in 2020. Changhee has expertise in Machine Learning, especially Deep Learning for Medical Imaging and Bioinformatics, where he is working on 2D/3D MR/CT image augmentation/classification/detection/segmentation, and operon optimization, as a project leader of several international projects in collaboration with various institutes.

Our team that consists of employees with a variety of experiences such as engaging in RA/QA of one of the largest medical device companies, and working for a medical system provider and a pharmaceutical company accelerate partners’ business together.