Details of the Researcher

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Kazunori Yamada
Section
Unprecedented-scale Data Analytics Center
Job title
Professor
Degree
  • Doctor of Philosophy (The University of Tokyo)

e-Rad No.
20756217

Research Interests 9

  • Techonology Governance

  • Strong Autonomy

  • Agentic AI

  • Autonomous Artificial Intteligence

  • Ethics

  • Reinforcement Learning

  • Artificial intelligence

  • Machine learning

  • Sequence analysis

Research Areas 2

  • Informatics / Intelligent informatics /

  • Informatics / Biological, health, and medical informatics /

Papers 49

  1. Transforming Social Meanings of Rice Produced in Miyagi Prefecture after the Great East Japan Earthquake: An 11-Year Twitter Analysis of Reputational Damage, Reconstruction Support, and Regional Branding International-journal Peer-reviewed

    Okano Y, Yamada KD

    Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus 2026

  2. ConWorldGAN: Generation of Complex Semantic Structures in 3D Voxel Worlds from a Single Example International-journal Peer-reviewed

    Zaiyr S, Yamada KD, Zielewski MR

    Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment 2026

  3. TimePre: Bridging Accuracy, Efficiency, and Stability in Probabilistic Time-Series Forecasting International-journal International-coauthorship Peer-reviewed

    Jiang L, Xu L, Li P, Hou D, Ge Q, Zhuang D, Xing S, Chen W, Gao X, Chen T, Zhan X, Zhang X, Zhang Z, Tu Z, Zielewski MR, Yamada KD, Lin F

    Transactions on Machine Learning Research 2026

  4. A Compact Kolmogorov-Arnold Network Mixer for Long-term Time Series Forecasting International-journal International-coauthorship Peer-reviewed

    Jiang L., Hou D., Wang Y., Su Y., Xing S., Chen W., Zhang X., Tu Z., Zhang Z., Lin F., Zielewski MR, Yamada KD

    Scientific Reports 2026

  5. The Emergence of Concept Cafe Culture in Japan: An Ontology-inspired Analysis based on Original Concept Cafe Data and Anime Role Images International-journal Peer-reviewed

    Okano Y, Yamada KD

    East Asian Journal of Popular Culture 2026

  6. Text-Guided Object Removal for Drone-Based 3D Reconstruction with Gaussian Splatting International-journal Peer-reviewed

    Kikuchi Y, Yamada KD, Koike A

    IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops 2026

  7. NexusFlow: Unifying Disparate Tasks under Partial Supervision via Invertible Flow Networks International-journal International-coauthorship Peer-reviewed

    Lin F, Wang Y, Guo Y, Huang Z, Huang X, Zhang H, Yamada KD, Tu Z, Ren L, Zhang Z

    IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2026

  8. Physics-Aware Video Instance Removal Benchmark International-journal International-coauthorship Peer-reviewed

    Li Z, Chen X, Jiang L, Hou D, Yamada KD, Lin F, Gao X, Tu Z

    IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops 2026

  9. Procedural Content Generation via Generative Artificial Intelligence International-journal International-coauthorship Peer-reviewed

    Mao X., Yu W., Okawara Y., Zhan X., Yamada KD, Zielewski MR

    Interdisciplinary Information Sciences 2026

  10. Simulating Metabolic Pathways to Enhance Interpretations of Metabolome Genome-wide Association Studies International-journal Peer-reviewed

    Kodate S, Sato M, Hishinuma E, Kojima K, Motoike IN, ToMMo Study Group, Koshiba S, Yamamoto M, Yamada KD, Kinoshita K

    Scientific Reports 2025

  11. Effect of Cumulative Exposure on the Efficacy of Paroxetine: a Population Pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic and Machine Learning Analyses International-journal Peer-reviewed

    Shigetome K, Egarashi T, Tomita T, Higa N, Iwashita K, Morita K, Nishimura M, Kankeko T, Maeda H, Yamada KD, Kajiwara-Morita A, Oniki K, Yasui-Furukori N, Saruwatari J

    Pharmacometrics and Systems Pharmacology 2025

  12. GPS: A Probabilistic Distributional Similarity with Gumbel Priors for Set-to-Set Matching International-journal International-coauthorship Peer-reviewed

    Lin F, Liu H, Zhang Z, Morales J, Zhang HK, Yamada KD, Kolachalama V, Saligrama V

    International Conference on Learning Representations 2025

  13. Learning Random Numbers to Realize Appendable Memory System for Artificial Intelligence to Acquire New Knowledge after Deployment International-journal International-coauthorship Peer-reviewed

    Kubota A, Kodate S, Li Y, Lin F, Fukuda H, Baladram MS, Yamada KD

    Interdisciplinary Information Sciences 2025

  14. Loss Distillation via Gradient Matching for Point Cloud Completion with Weighted Chamfer Distance International-journal International-coauthorship Peer-reviewed

    Lin F, Liu H, Zhou H, Hou S, Yamada KD, Fischer GS, Li Y, Zhang H, Zhang Z

    IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems 2024

  15. Question generation for English reading comprehension exercises using Transformers International-journal Peer-reviewed

    Maas A, Yamada KD, Nagahama T, Kawada T, Horita T

    Letters on Informatics and Interdisciplinary Research 2024

  16. InfoCD: A contrastive chamfer distance loss for point cloud completion International-journal International-coauthorship Peer-reviewed

    Lin F, Yue Y, Zhang Z, Hou S, Yamada KD, Kolachalama VB, Saligrama V

    Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 2023

  17. Hyperbolic chamfer distance for point cloud completion International-journal International-coauthorship Peer-reviewed

    Lin F, Yue Y, Hou S, Yu X, Xu Y, Yamada KD, Zhang Z

    International Conference on Computer Vision 2023

  18. Serum fatty acid composition balance by fuzzy c-means method in individuals with or without metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease International-journal Peer-reviewed

    Nagase Y, Satoh T, Shigetome K, Tokumaru N, Matsumoto E, Yamada KD, Imafuku T, Watanabe H, Maruyama T, Ogata Y, Yoshida M, Saruwatari J, Oniki K

    Nutrients 15 (4) 809-809 2023

    DOI: 10.3390/nu15040809  

    eISSN: 2072-6643

  19. Identifying latent traits of questions for controllable machine generation International-journal Peer-reviewed

    Maas A, Kawada T, Yamada K, Nagahama T, Horita T

    EdMedia + Innovate Learning 2022

  20. Redox imaging of dextran sodium sulfate-induced colitis mice treated with nitric oxide synthase inhibitors International-journal Peer-reviewed

    Yasukawa K, Yamada K, Tokuda H, Koyama S, Utsumi H

    Advances in Redox Research 6 100047-100047 2022

    DOI: 10.1016/j.arres.2022.100047  

    ISSN: 2667-1379

  21. Relation is an option for processing context information International-journal Peer-reviewed

    Yamada KD, Baladram MS, Lin F

    Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence 5 2022

    DOI: 10.3389/frai.2022.924688  

    eISSN: 2624-8212

  22. Cosmos Propagation Network: Deep learning model for point cloud completion International-journal Peer-reviewed

    Lin F, Xu Y, Zhang Z, Gao C, Yamada KD

    Neurocomputing 507 221-234 2022

    DOI: 10.1016/j.neucom.2022.08.007  

    ISSN: 0925-2312

  23. Progress in research on implementing machine consciousness International-journal Peer-reviewed

    Yamada KD, Baladram MS, Lin F

    Interdisciplinary Information Sciences 28 (1) 95-105 2022

    DOI: 10.4036/iis.2022.r.02  

    ISSN: 1340-9050

    eISSN: 1347-6157

  24. An effective convolutional neural network for visualized understanding transboundary air pollution based on Himawari-8 satellite images International-journal Peer-reviewed

    Lin F, Gao C, Yamada KD

    IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters 19 1-5 2022

    DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2021.3102939  

  25. Developing a novel recurrent neural network architecture with fewer parameters and good learning performance International-journal Peer-reviewed

    Yamada KD, Lin F, Nakamura T

    Interdisciplinary Information Sciences 27 (1) 25-40 2021

    DOI: 10.4036/iis.2020.r.01  

    ISSN: 1340-9050

    eISSN: 1347-6157

  26. Introduction to supervised machine learning for data science International-journal Peer-reviewed

    Baladram MS, Koike A, Yamada KD

    Interdisciplinary Information Sciences 26 (1) 87-121 2020

    DOI: 10.4036/iis.2020.a.03  

    ISSN: 1340-9050

    eISSN: 1347-6157

  27. In vivo redox imaging of dextran sodium sulfate-induced colitis in mice using Overhauser-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging International-journal Peer-reviewed

    Yasukawa K, Hirago A, Yamada K, Tun X, Ohkuma K, Utsumi H

    Free Radical Biology and Medicine 136 1-11 2019

    DOI: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2019.03.025  

  28. MAFFT online service: multiple sequence alignment, interactive sequence choice and visualization International-journal Peer-reviewed

    Katoh K, Rozewicki J, Yamada KD

    Briefings in Bioinformatics 20 (4) 1160-1166 2019

    DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbx108  

    ISSN: 1467-5463

    eISSN: 1477-4054

  29. De novo profile generation based on sequence context specificity with the long short-term memory network International-journal Peer-reviewed

    Yamada KD, Kinoshita K

    BMC Bioinformatics 2018

    DOI: 10.1186/s12859-018-2284-1  

  30. Parallelization of MAFFT for large-scale multiple sequence alignments International-journal Peer-reviewed

    Nakamura T, Yamada KD, Tomii K, Katoh K

    Bioinformatics 34 (14) 2490-2492 2018

    DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bty121  

    ISSN: 1367-4803

    eISSN: 1460-2059

  31. Derivative-free neural network for optimizing the scoring functions associated with dynamic programming of pairwise-profile alignment International-journal Peer-reviewed

    Yamada KD

    Algorithms for molecular biology 2018

    DOI: 10.1186/s13015-018-0123-6  

  32. Designing better diffracting crystals of biotin carboxyl carrier protein from Pyrococcus horikoshii by a mutation based on crystal-packing propensity of amino acids International-journal Peer-reviewed

    Yamada KD, Kunishima N, Matsuura Y, Nakai K, Naitow H, Fukasawa Y, Tomii K

    Acta Crystallographica Section D 73 (Pt 9) 757-766 2017

    DOI: 10.1107/S2059798317010932  

  33. Identification of the sequence determinants of protein N-terminal acetylation through a decision tree approach International-journal International-coauthorship Peer-reviewed

    Yamada KD, Omori S, Nish H, Miyagi M

    BMC Bioinformatics 18 (1) 289-289 2017

    DOI: 10.1186/s12859-017-1699-4  

  34. Protein sequence-similarity search acceleration using a heuristic algorithm with a sensitive matrix International-journal Peer-reviewed

    Lim K, Yamada KD, Frith MC, Tomii K

    Journal of Structural and Functional Genomics 17 (4) 147-154 2016

    DOI: 10.1007/s10969-016-9210-4  

  35. Application of the MAFFT sequence alignment program to large data - reexamination of the usefulness of chained guide trees International-journal Peer-reviewed

    Yamada KD, Tomii K, Katoh K

    Bioinformatics 32 (21) 3246-3251 2016

    DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btw412  

    ISSN: 1367-4803

    eISSN: 1460-2059

  36. Structural characterization of single nucleotide variants at ligand binding sites and enzyme active sites of human proteins International-journal Peer-reviewed

    Yamada KD, Nishi H, Nakata J, Kinoshita K

    Biophysics and Physicobiology 13 157-163 2016

    DOI: 10.2142/biophysico.13.0_157  

  37. Identification of hepta-histidine as a candidate drug for Huntington’s disease by in silico-in vitro-in vivo-integrated screens of chemical libraries International-journal International-coauthorship Peer-reviewed

    Imamura T, Fujita K, Tagawa K, Ikura T, Chen X, Homma H, Tamura T, Mao Y, Taniguchi JB, Motoki K, Nakabayashi M, Ito N, Yamada K, Tomii K, Okano H, Kaye J, Finkbeiner S, Okazawa H

    Scientific Reports 6 33861-33861 2016

    DOI: 10.1038/srep33861  

  38. Intrinsically disordered region of influenza A NP regulates viral genome packaging via interactions with viral RNA and host PI(4,5)P2 International-journal Peer-reviewed

    Kakisaka M, Yamada K, Yamaji-Hasegawa A, Kobayashi T, Aida Y

    Virology 496 116-126 2016

    DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2016.05.018  

  39. Prediction of homo- and hetero-protein complexes by protein docking and template-based modeling: a CASP-CAPRI experiment International-journal International-coauthorship Peer-reviewed

    Lensink MF, Velankar S, Kryshtafovych A, Huang SY, Schneidman-Duhovny D, Sali A, Segura J, Fernandez-Fuentes N, Viswanath S, Elber R, Grudinin S, Popov P, Neveu E, Lee H, Baek M, Park S, Heo L, Rie Lee G, Seok C, Qin S, Zhou HX, Ritchie DW, Maigret B, Devignes MD, Ghoorah A, Torchala M, Chaleil RA, Bates PA, Ben-Zeev E, Eisenstein M, Negi SS, Weng Z, Vreven T, Pierce BG, Borrman TM, Yu J, Ochsenbein F, Guerois R, Vangone A, Rodrigues JP, van Zundert G, Nellen M, Xue L, Karaca E, Melquiond AS, Visscher K, Kastritis PL, Bonvin AM, Xu X, Qiu L, Yan C, Li J, Ma Z, Cheng J, Zou X, Shen Y, Peterson LX, Kim HR, Roy A, Han X, Esquivel-Rodriguez J, Kihara D, Yu X, Bruce NJ, Fuller JC, Wade RC, Anishchenko I, Kundrotas PJ, Vakser IA, Imai K, Yamada K, Oda T, Nakamura T, Tomii K, Pallara C, Romero-Durana M, Jiménez-García B, Moal IH, Férnandez-Recio J, Joung JY, Kim JY, Joo K, Lee J, Kozakov D, Vajda S, Mottarella S, Hall DR, Beglov D, Mamonov A, Xia B, Bohnuud T, Del Carpio CA, Ichiishi E, Marze N, Kuroda D, Roy Burman SS, Gray JJ, Chermak E, Cavallo L, Oliva R, Tovchigrechko A, Wodak SJ

    Proteins 84 (S1) 323-348 2016

    DOI: 10.1002/prot.25007  

    ISSN: 0887-3585

    eISSN: 1097-0134

  40. Systematic exploration of an efficient amino acid substitution matrix: MIQS International-journal Peer-reviewed

    Tomii K, Yamada K

    Methods in Molecular Biology 2016

    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-3572-7_11  

  41. A new genotype of bovine leukemia virus in South America identified by NGS-based whole genome sequencing and molecular evolutionary genetic analysis International-journal International-coauthorship Peer-reviewed

    Polat M, Takeshima SN, Hosomichi K, Kim J, Miyasaka T, Yamada K, Arainga M, Murakami T, Matsumoto Y, de la Barra Diaz V, Panei CJ, González ET, Kanemaki M, Onuma M, Giovambattista G, Aida Y

    Retrovirology 13 2016

    DOI: 10.1186/s12977-016-0239-z  

    eISSN: 1742-4690

  42. Refinement of Amino Acid Substitution Matrix for Detecting Distant Relationships of Proteins Peer-reviewed

    Yamada K, Tomii K

    Seibutsu Butsuri 55 (3) 133-136 2015

    DOI: 10.2142/biophys.55.133  

    ISSN: 0582-4052

    eISSN: 1347-4219

  43. A novel antiviral target structure involved in the RNA binding, dimerization, and nuclear export functions of the influenza A virus nucleoprotein International-journal Peer-reviewed

    Kakisaka M, Sasaki Y, Yamada K, Kondoh Y, Hikono H, Osada H, Tomii K, Saito T, Aida Y

    PLOS Pathogens 11 (7) e1005062 2015

    DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1005062  

  44. PoSSuM v.2.0: data update and a new function for investigating ligand analogs and target proteins of small-molecule drugs International-journal Peer-reviewed

    Ito JI, Ikeda K, Yamada K, Mizuguchi K, Tomii K

    Nucleic Acids Research (NAR) 2015

    DOI: 10.1093/nar/gku1144  

  45. Comparative analysis of seven viral nuclear export signals (NESs) reveals the crucial role of nuclear export mediated by the third NES consensus sequence of nucleoprotein (NP) in influenza A virus replication International-journal Peer-reviewed

    Chutiwitoonchai N, Kakisaka M, Yamada K, Aida Y

    PLOS ONE 9 (8) e105081 2014

    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0105081  

  46. Revisiting amino acid substitution matrices for identifying distantly related proteins International-journal Peer-reviewed

    Yamada K, Tomii K

    Bioinformatics 2014

    DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btt694  

  47. Importin α3/Qip1 is involved in multiplication of mutant influenza virus with alanine mutation at amino acid 9 independently of nuclear transport function International-journal Peer-reviewed

    Sasaki Y, Hagiwara K, Kakisaka M, Yamada K, Murakami T, Aida Y

    PLOS ONE 8 (1) e55765 2013

    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0055765  

  48. Identification of a novel compound with antiviral activity against influenza A virus depending on PA subunit of viral RNA polymerase International-journal Peer-reviewed

    Yamada K, Koyama H, Hagiwara K, Ueda A, Sasaki Y, Kanesashi SN, Ueno R, Nakamura HK, Kuwata K, Shimizu K, Suzuki M, Aida Y

    Microbes and Infection 14 (9) 740-7 2012

    DOI: 10.1016/j.micinf.2012.02.012  

  49. Discovery of novel antiviral agents directed against the influenza A virus nucleoprotein using photo-cross-linked chemical arrays International-journal Peer-reviewed

    Hagiwara K, Kondoh Y, Ueda A, Yamada K, Goto H, Watanabe T, Nakata T, Osada H, Aida Y

    Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 394 (3) 721-7 2010

    DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2010.03.058  

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    System: 科学研究費補助金:挑戦的研究(萌芽)

    2026 - 2028

  2. 機械学習を用いた組合せ構造の構成への試み

    原田昌晃, 山田和範, 新谷誠

    System: 科学研究費補助金:挑戦的研究(萌芽)

    2025 - 2027

  3. 効率的な分解誘導薬創成に向けた分子設計AIの基盤開発

    富井健太郎, 椿真史, 池田修巳, 山田和範

    System: NEDO先導研究プログラム

    2023 - 2024

  4. 人工知能で目指すアミノ酸配列類似性検索法の高速化および高感度化研究 Competitive

    山田和範

    System: 科学研究費補助金:若手研究

    2018 - 2020

  5. MAFFT多重アラインメントプログラムの大量配列データへの対応と機能拡張 Competitive

    加藤和貴, 山田和範, 富井健太郎

    System: 科学研究費補助金:基盤研究C

    2016 - 2020