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Computer Science
Japan
2026

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Computer Science

D-Index
73
Citations
40102
World Ranking
1540
National Ranking
10

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Computer Science in Japan Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Japan Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Japan Leader Award
  • 2021 - Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) For significant contributions and leadership in robotics, massively parallel AI, and the use of AI for scientific discovery and systems biology.

Overview

Hiroaki Kitano is affiliated with the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology in Japan. Their research spans fields primarily within Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a focus on areas such as Molecular Biology, Computational Theory and Mathematics, Infectious Diseases, Ecology, and Artificial Intelligence.

The scientist's work emphasizes several main topics, including:

  • Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
  • Computational Drug Discovery Methods
  • Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology
  • Cell Image Analysis Techniques
  • Gene Regulatory Network Analysis
  • Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research

Hiroaki Kitano has contributed to multiple recent publications with the following selected papers:

  • "Outracing champion Gran Turismo drivers with deep reinforcement learning", 2022, Nature
  • "SBML Level 3: an extensible format for the exchange and reuse of biological models", 2020, Molecular Systems Biology
  • "COVID-19 Disease Map, building a computational repository of SARS-CoV-2 virus-host interaction mechanisms", 2020, Scientific Data
  • "Nobel Turing Challenge: creating the engine for scientific discovery", 2021, npj Systems Biology and Applications
  • "Elucidating gene expression adaptation of phylogenetically divergent coral holobionts under heat stress", 2021, Nature Communications

The scientist collaborates frequently with other researchers, including:

  • Ayako Yachie-Kinoshita
  • Samik Ghosh
  • Olaf Wolkenhauer
  • Alfonso Valencia
  • Charles Auffray

The venues where Hiroaki Kitano most often publishes include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Scientific Reports
  • Nature
  • npj Systems Biology and Applications
  • Scientific Data

Recognition for the scientist's contributions includes the award of Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) in 2021, cited for significant contributions and leadership in robotics, massively parallel AI, and the use of AI for scientific discovery and systems biology.

Best Publications

  • Systems biology: a brief overview.

    Hiroaki Kitano

  • The systems biology markup language (SBML): a medium for representation and exchange of biochemical network models.

    M. Hucka;A. Finney;H. M. Sauro;H. Bolouri;H. Bolouri

  • Computational systems biology

    Hiroaki Kitano

  • A comprehensive pathway map of epidermal growth factor receptor signaling

    Kanae Oda;Yukiko Matsuoka;Akira Funahashi;Hiroaki Kitano

  • RoboCup: The Robot World Cup Initiative

    Hiroaki Kitano;Minoru Asada;Yasuo Kuniyoshi;Itsuki Noda

  • The Systems Biology Graphical Notation

    Nicolas Le Novere;Michael Hucka;Huaiyu Mi;Stuart Moodie

  • Towards a theory of biological robustness.

    Hiroaki Kitano

  • The PANTHER database of protein families, subfamilies, functions and pathways.

    Huaiyu Mi;Betty Lazareva-Ulitsky;Rozina Loo;Anish Kejariwal

  • RoboCup: A Challenge Problem for AI

    Hiroaki Kitano;Minoru Asada;Yasuo Kuniyoshi;Itsuki Noda

  • CellDesigner: a process diagram editor for gene-regulatory and biochemical networks

    Akira Funahashi;Mineo Morohashi;Hiroaki Kitano;Naoki Tanimura

  • Visualization of omics data for systems biology

    Nils Gehlenborg;Seán I O'Donoghue;Nitin S Baliga;Alexander Goesmann

  • Foundations of systems biology

    Hiroaki Kitano

  • RoboCup Rescue: search and rescue in large-scale disasters as a domain for autonomous agents research

    H. Kitano;S. Tadokoro;I. Noda;H. Matsubara

  • A Robustness-based Approach to Systems-oriented Drug Design

    Hiroaki Kitano

  • Cancer as a robust system: implications for anticancer therapy.

    Hiroaki Kitano

  • CellDesigner 3.5: A Versatile Modeling Tool for Biochemical Networks

    A. Funahashi;Y. Matsuoka;A. Jouraku;M. Morohashi

  • Using process diagrams for the graphical representation of biological networks.

    Hiroaki Kitano;Akira Funahashi;Yukiko Matsuoka;Kanae Oda

  • Combining machine learning systems and multiple docking simulation packages to improve docking prediction reliability for network pharmacology.

    Kun-Yi Hsin;Samik Ghosh;Hiroaki Kitano

  • The RoboCup Synthetic Agent Challenge 97

    Hiroaki Kitano;Milind Tambe;Peter Stone;Manuela M. Veloso

  • A comprehensive map of the toll-like receptor signaling network

    Kanae Oda;Hiroaki Kitano

  • The transcriptional network that controls growth arrest and differentiation in a human myeloid leukemia cell line

    Harukazu Suzuki;Alistair R.R. Forrest;Erik Van Nimwegen;Carsten O. Daub

Frequent Co-Authors

Hiroshi G. Okuno
Hiroshi G. Okuno Waseda University
Minoru Asada
Minoru Asada Osaka University
Kazuhiro Nakadai
Kazuhiro Nakadai Tokyo Institute of Technology
Manuela Veloso
Manuela Veloso Carnegie Mellon University
Hideharu Amano
Hideharu Amano Keio University
Michael Hucka
Michael Hucka California Institute of Technology
John C. Doyle
John C. Doyle California Institute of Technology
Yoshihiro Kawaoka
Yoshihiro Kawaoka University of Tokyo
Falk Schreiber
Falk Schreiber University of Konstanz
Masahiro Fujita
Masahiro Fujita Sony (Japan)

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