Kimito Funatsu (船津 公人, Funatsu Kimito, born December 3, 1955)[1] is a Japanese chemist specializing in chemoinformatics and data-driven chemistry, a Professor Emeritus at University of Tokyo, and the research director of the Data Science Center at Nara Institute of Science and Technology.
[3] After he served as an Associate Professor at Toyohashi University of Technology, he became a Professor at Department of Chemical System Engineering, School of Engineering, University of Tokyo in 2004.
[3] The Division of Chemical Information of the American Chemical Society gave him the Herman Skolnik Award in 2019 for his contributions to structure elucidation, de novo structure generation and applications of cheminformatics methods to materials design and chemical process control.
[4][5] He also received the Chemical Society of Japan Award for Creative Work (日本化学会 学術賞) for 2020.
[6] In 2021, he retired from University of Tokyo at mandatory age[7] and was given the title of Professor Emeritus.