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Kenji Yasuoka

Kenji Yasuoka

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Chemistry

D-Index
43
Citations
7334
World Ranking
17174
National Ranking
1356

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2009 - ACM Gordon Bell Prize 42 Tflops Hierarchical N-body Simulations on GPUs with Applications in both Astrophysics and Turbulence

Overview

Kenji Yasuoka is affiliated with Keio University in Japan, where their research encompasses various aspects within materials science. Their work spans multiple subfields, including molecular biology, materials chemistry, biomedical engineering, atomic and molecular physics, and optics, as well as artificial intelligence.

The scientist's research topics cover a broad range of subjects such as protein structure and dynamics, machine learning applications in materials science, nanopore and nanochannel transport studies, material dynamics and properties, computational drug discovery methods, block copolymer self-assembly, and RNA research and splicing.

Kenji Yasuoka has contributed to several papers, including:

  • Natural quantum reservoir computing for temporal information processing (2022), published in Scientific Reports
  • Differences in ligand-induced protein dynamics extracted from an unsupervised deep learning approach correlate with protein-ligand binding affinities (2022), published in Communications Biology
  • Coarse-Grained Model of Disordered RNA for Simulations of Biomolecular Condensates (2025), published in Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
  • The acidic tail of HMGB1 regulates its secondary structure and conformational flexibility: A circular dichroism and molecular dynamics simulation study (2020), published in Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal
  • Mechanism for H2 diffusion in sII hydrates by molecular dynamics simulations (2020), published in The Journal of Chemical Physics

The scientist frequently publishes in venues such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • The Proceedings of Conference of Kanto Branch
  • Biophysical Journal
  • The Journal of Chemical Physics
  • Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling

Collaborations form an important part of Yasuoka's research. Regular coauthors include Katsuhiro Endo, Eiji Yamamoto, Ikki Yasuda, Yoshinori Hirano, and Paul E. Brumby.

Kenji Yasuoka received the ACM Gordon Bell Prize in 2009 for work described as "42 Tflops Hierarchical N-body Simulations on GPUs with Applications in both Astrophysics and Turbulence."

Best Publications

  • Coexistence and transition between Cassie and Wenzel state on pillared hydrophobic surface

    Takahiro Koishi;Kenji Yasuoka;Shigenori Fujikawa;Toshikazu Ebisuzaki

  • Molecular dynamics of homogeneous nucleation in the vapor phase. I. Lennard-Jones fluid

    Kenji Yasuoka;Mitsuhiro Matsumoto

  • Water proton configurations in structures I, II, and H clathrate hydrate unit cells.

    Fumihito Takeuchi;Masaki Hiratsuka;Ryo Ohmura;Saman Alavi

  • Statistical study of clathrate-hydrate nucleation in a water/hydrochlorofluorocarbon system: Search for the nature of the memory effect

    Ryo Ohmura;Mikio Ogawa;Kenji Yasuoka;Yasuhiko H. Mori

  • Molecular dynamics of homogeneous nucleation in the vapor phase. II. Water

    Kenji Yasuoka;Mitsuhiro Matsumoto

  • Measurement of contact-angle hysteresis for droplets on nanopillared surface and in the Cassie and Wenzel states: a molecular dynamics simulation study.

    Takahiro Koishi;Kenji Yasuoka;Shigenori Fujikawa;Xiao Cheng Zeng

  • Structure of cold nuclear matter at subnuclear densities by Quantum Molecular Dynamics

    Gentaro Watanabe;Katsuhiko Sato;Kenji Yasuoka;Toshikazu Ebisuzaki

  • Evaporation and condensation at a liquid surface. I. Argon

    Kenji Yasuoka;Mitsuhiro Matsumoto;Yosuke Kataoka

  • Nanoscale hydrophobic interaction and nanobubble nucleation.

    T. Koishi;S. Yoo;K. Yasuoka;Xiao Cheng Zeng

  • Simulation of transitions between "pasta" phases in dense matter.

    Gentaro Watanabe;Toshiki Maruyama;Katsuhiko Sato;Kenji Yasuoka

  • Hardware accelerator for molecular dynamics: MDGRAPE-2

    Ryutaro Susukita;Toshikazu Ebisuzaki;Bruce G. Elmegreen;Hideaki Furusawa

  • Non-Gaussian fluctuations resulting from power-law trapping in a lipid bilayer

    Takuma Akimoto;Eiji Yamamoto;Kenji Yasuoka;Yoshinori Hirano

  • Self-assembly of surfactants and polymorphic transition in nanotubes.

    Noriyoshi Arai;Kenji Yasuoka;Xiao C Zeng

  • Molecular mechanisms of how mercury inhibits water permeation through aquaporin-1: understanding by molecular dynamics simulation.

    Yoshinori Hirano;Noriaki Okimoto;Ikuko Kadohira;Makoto Suematsu

  • From kesterite to stannite photovoltaics: Stability and band gaps of the Cu2(Zn,Fe)SnS4 alloy

    Taizo Shibuya;Yosuke Goto;Yoichi Kamihara;Masanori Matoba

  • Evaporation and condensation at a liquid surface. II. Methanol

    Mitsuhiro Matsumoto;Kenji Yasuoka;Yosuke Kataoka

  • Origin of subdiffusion of water molecules on cell membrane surfaces

    Eiji Yamamoto;Takuma Akimoto;Masato Yasui;Kenji Yasuoka

  • Formation of Nuclear Pasta in Supernovae

    Gentaro Watanabe;Hidetaka Sonoda;Toshiki Maruyama;Katsuhiko Sato

  • A smooth‐particle mesh Ewald method for DL_POLY molecular dynamics simulation package on the Fujitsu VPP700

    Kholmirzo Kholmurodov;William Smith;Kenji Yasuoka;Thomas A. Darden

  • Molecular dynamics simulations of vapor/liquid coexistence using the nonpolarizable water models.

    Ryuji Sakamaki;Amadeu K. Sum;Tetsu Narumi;Kenji Yasuoka

  • Oxygen vacancy-originated highly active electrocatalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction

    Shigeto Hirai;Kazuki Morita;Kenji Yasuoka;Taizo Shibuya

Frequent Co-Authors

Xiao Cheng Zeng
Xiao Cheng Zeng City University of Hong Kong
Ryo Ohmura
Ryo Ohmura Keio University
Amadeu K. Sum
Amadeu K. Sum Colorado School of Mines
Aron Walsh
Aron Walsh Imperial College London
Biplab Sanyal
Biplab Sanyal Uppsala University
Francesco Zerbetto
Francesco Zerbetto University of Bologna
Makoto Suematsu
Makoto Suematsu Keio University
Mark S.P. Sansom
Mark S.P. Sansom University of Oxford
Nasser H. Sweilam
Nasser H. Sweilam Cairo University
Bruce G. Elmegreen
Bruce G. Elmegreen IBM (United States)

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