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Naoki Masuda is a professor at the University of Michigan, with tenure in both the Gilbert S. Omenn Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics and the Department of Mathematics, a position he has held since July 2025.

His research interests in the biomedical application of networks encompass brain networks using neuroimaging data, genomic data analysis, social networks in public health, and collective behavior of animals. His theoretical work centers on topics such as nonlinear dynamics, random walks, temporal networks, and multilayer networks.

Before joining U-M, he served at the University at Buffalo from 2019 to 2025 as a professor in the Department of Mathematics. Before his move to the United States, Dr. Masuda was a tenured faculty member at the University of Tokyo from 2006 to 2014 and at the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom from 2014 to 2019.

He earned his doctoral degree in mathematical engineering from the University of Tokyo. Dr. Masuda is an expert in network science and mathematical biology. He received the Junior Akira Okubo Prize in 2019, jointly awarded by the Society for Mathematical Biology and the Japanese Society for Mathematical Biology.