Daisuke Kihara
Professor, Department of Computer Science and Department of Biological Sciences
Purdue University
Dr. Kihara is a full professor in the Department of Biological Sciences and the Department of Computer Science at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. He received the B.S. degree from the University of Tokyo, Japan in 1994 and the Ph.D. degree from Kyoto University, Japan in 1999. After studying as a postdoctoral researcher with Prof. Jeffrey Skolnick he joined Purdue University in 2003 and was promoted to full professor in 2014. Since 2018 he holds an adjunct professor position at the Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati. He has worked on various topics in protein bioinformatics. His current research covers the development of algorithms for protein protein docking, protein tertiary structure prediction, structure modeling from low resolution image data, structure and sequence based protein function prediction, and computational drug design. He has published over 150 research papers and book chapters, with support from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and industry. He has served on the program committee of various bioinformatics conferences including the Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB), where he is a track chair in 2019. In 2013 he was named a University Faculty Scholar by Purdue University.
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