English/Japanese

Taro L. Saito

Affiliation

Assistant Professor at Morishita Laboratory (Bioinformatics & Database Systems)

Department of Computational Biology, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences University of Tokyo

Address & Phone

5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa City Chiba Pref. 277-8562, JAPAN

Phone: +81-47-136-4065

Curriculum Vitae (CV)

March 2002 : Bachelor of Science (Department of Information Science, Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo, Japan)
March 2004 : Master of Information Science and Technology (Department of Computer Science, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, University of Tokyo, Japan)
April 2005 - March 2007 : Research fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
March 2007 : Ph. D. (Department of Computer Science, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, University of Tokyo, Japan)
April 2007 - (current) : Assistant Professor (Department of Computational Biology, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo, Japan)

Research Interests

XML Database Management System (Xerial)

• Relational-Style XML Query (see Publications)
• XML Query Optimization
• Update-tolerant XML Indexing
• Transaction management for XML (lock protocols, concurrency control)

Database Implementation

• Transaction processing
• Query optimization
• Database Storage & Indexes

Biological Databases

• UTGB (University of Tokyo Genome Browser)
• SCMD (Saccharomyces Cerevisiae Morphological Database)
• etc...

Publications

• see Publications