
Dr. Jun Seita is Team Director (Principal Investigator) at RIKEN, Japan, where he leads 5 laboratories; Medical Science Deep Learning Team, Laboratory for Integrative Genomics, Proteomics Unit, Medical Data Deep Learning Special Team, and Medical Data Sharing Unit. He received his M.D. from the University of Tsukuba in 1996 and after completion of residency in cardiovascular surgery, he studied stem cell biology and received his Ph.D. in Medicine from the University of Tokyo. From 2006 to 2016, he was at Stanford University studying single cell biology, systems biology, data-driven science and machine learning. His research interests cover the areas where AI meets biology, medicine, and beyond. He is also professor at the University of Tsukuba, advisor to avatarin inc. and member of the AI Governance Alliance, the World Economic Forum.