Keisuke Takahashi is a full professor at Department of Chemistry at Hokkaido University in Japan. He has earned a B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Arizona USA, followed by M.S. at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden and Ph.D. at Hokkaido University, Japan. His research interests are focused on designing catalysts and materials via material and catalysts informatics. Particularly, he integrates experiment, computation, theory and data science to conduct research. He is also the principle investigator for the Catalyst Informatics project as funded by JST-CREST where he conducts research in materials and catalyst informatics.