Akinori Sato

Akinori Sato

Specially Appointed Assistant Professor

Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST) ARWIT Promotion Center (cross-appointed with Data-driven Science Creative Center)

Member of the Chemoinformatics Laboratory

Specialty: Cheminformatics

I develop data-driven methods and foundation models to accelerate molecular discovery and design.

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Molecular Foundation Models

Molecular Foundation Models

Foundation models that learn universal representations from large-scale molecular data.

Chemical Language Models

Chemical Language Models

Language models over chemical strings (e.g., SMILES) for molecular generation and prediction.

Data-driven Molecular Design

Data-driven Molecular Design

Molecular design and optimization combining experimental data with machine learning.