Sadao Ota's Biography

Sadao Ota, Associate Professor, University of Tokyo

Sadao Ota is an associate professor at RCAST of University of Tokyo. Sadao leads the networked biophotonics and microfluidics group, which creates new physical tools to probe biological structures and approaches of networking biological measurements across different instruments. Sadao also directs laboratories of systems biology and medicine, a virtual collaborative institute of more than ten life science groups, around RCAST. Sadao is also a chief scientific officer of ThinkCyte Inc, which commercializes his AI-driven ultrafast image-free imaging cytometry technologies, and develops its biomedical and pharmaceutical application with partnerships worldwide.

Sadao received his Ph.D. with studies in optics and biophysics from University of California Berkeley in 2013, worked as an assistant professor in 2014-2015 and as a Sakigake scholar in 2015-2018 at University of Tokyo, launched Thincyte in 2016, and the academic group in 2018.