Hiroko Kato Solvang
Curriculum Vitae
EDUCATION
1995 Ph.D in Statistics, The Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Graduate University for Advanced Studies. Japan
1988 MS in Educational Physics and Computer Physics. Department of Physics, Tokyo Gakugei University. Japan
1986 BS in Physics. Department of Mathematical and Physical Science, Japan Women’s University
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2024 Special guest professor, Tokyo University of Science, Japan
2019-2022 Special appointment professor, Hiroshima University, Japan
2013-present Senior Researcher (Forsker 1183), Marine mammalian research group, Institute of Marine Research, Norway
2013 Visiting researcher at CEES, University of Oslo, Norway
2012-2013 20% Statistician at Institute of Healthe and Society, University of Oslo, Norway
2007-2012 Scientist at Department of Genetics, Oslo Universityhospital, Radiumhospitalet, Norway
2007-2011 10% Research position at Department of Biostatistics, University of Oslo, Norway
1998-2007 Research Scientist at NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan
1996-1998 Research Associate at Department of Applied Mathematics, Hiroshima University, Japan
1995-1996 Research Associate at Advanced Telecommunication Research, Japan
JOINT AND GRANT PROJECTS – past ten years
2023-2024 The Scandinavia-Japan Sasakawa Foundation.GA23-NO-0066.’Statistical Methodology for Investigation of Marine Ecosystem in The Barents Sea’
2023-2024 The Scandinavia-Japan Sasakawa Foundation.GA23-NO-0024.’Computational Framework for Enhanced Seasonal-to-Decadal (S2D) Predictions of Spatial Fish Dynamics’
2021-2023 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Bilateral Program with Hiroshima University JPJSBP 120219927. ‘A statistical spatiotemporal estimation method for integrated ecosystem assessment in the Barents Sea’
2019-2022 The Research Council of Norway, Project number 277192. ‘Assessing risks of cumulative impacts on the Barents Sea ecosystem and its services’
2019-2020 The Scandinavia-Japan Sasakawa Foundation. GA19-NOR-0081.‘Computational Methodologies for Identifying Causal and Associated Relationships in Marine Ecosystems’
2018 The Scandinavia-Japan Sasakawa Foundation. GA18-NOR-0036. ‘Development of statistical methodology for investigation marine ecosystem and climate change’
2016 The Scandinavia-Japan Sasakawa Foundation ‘Collaboration with Hiroshima Statistics Group on methodology for exploring conditions on marine mammals’
EDUCATIONAL EXPERISNCES – past ten years
2024 Global lecturer, Tokyo University of Science, Japan
2022 Autumn semester ‘Data Science’, Hiroshima University, Japan
2021 Autumn semester ‘Biostatistics’, Hiroshima University, Japan
2020 Intensive course ‘Applied Statistics’, Hiroshima University, Japan
2015 Invited lectures for the Intensive course ‘Applied Statistics’, Hiroshima University, Japan
2008-2013 Supervising PhD student (Bioinformatics), Radiumhospitalet, Norway
Publications
Academic articles
2025
Risk assessment to Barents Sea ecosystem services: an expert-based approach
Frontiers in Marine Science
12
2024
Previous, current and future monitoring and management of common minke whales in Norway
NAMMCO scientific publications
13
2024
PREVIOUS, CURRENT AND FUTURE MONITORING AND MANAGEMENT OF COMMON MINKE WHALES IN NORWAY
NAMMCO scientific publications
13
2024
Flagged observation analyses as a tool for scoping and communication in integrated ecosystem assessments
PLOS ONE
19
2024
Categorical data analysis using discretization of continuous variables to investigate associations in marine ecosystems
Environmetrics
2024
Categorical data analysis using discretization of continuous variables to investigate associations in marine ecosystems
Environmetrics
e2867
2023
trec: An R package for trend estimation and classification to support integrated ecosystem assessment of the marine ecosystem and environmental factors
SoftwareX
21
2022
RECENT TRENDS IN TEMPORAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION IN BLUBBER THICKNESS OF COMMON MINKE WHALES (BALAENOPTERA ACUTOROSTRATA ACUTOROSTRATA) IN THE NORTHEAST ATLANTIC
NAMMCO scientific publications
12
2022
Recent trends in temporal and geographical vatiation in blubber thickness of common minke whales (Balenoptera Acutorostrata Acutorostrata) in the Northeast Atlantic
NAMMCO Scientific Publications
12
2022
Successive extreme climatic events lead to immediate, large-scale, and diverse responses from fish in the Arctic
Global Change Biology
28
p. 3728-3744
2022
Working Group on the Integrated Assessments of the Barents Sea (WGIBAR)
ICES Scientific Reports
4
2022
Dynamic spatio-temporal zero-inflated Poisson models for predicting capelin distribution in the Barents Sea
Japanese Journal of Statistics and Data Science (JJSD)
2022
Successive extreme climatic events lead to immediate, large-scale, and diverse responses from fish in the Arctic
Global Change Biology
2021
Measurement error model for the Norwegian common minke whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata acutorostrata) surveys 2008-2013
Journal of Cetacean Research and Management
2021
Consideration of measurement errors for the Norwegian common minke whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata acutorostrata) surveys
Journal of Cetacean Research and Management
22
p. 1-16
2021
Distribution of rorquals and Atlantic cod in relation to their prey in the Norwegian high Arctic
Polar Biology
44
p. 761-782
2021
Consideration of measurement errors for the Norwegian common minke whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata acutorostrata) surveys
Journal of Cetacean Research and Management
22
2021
Distribution of rorquals and Atlantic cod in relation to their prey in the Norwegian high Arctic
Polar Biology
44
p. 761-782
2020
Estimation and classification of temporal trends to support integrated ecosystem assessment
ICES Journal of Marine Science
77
p. 2529-2540
2020
Extending balance assessment for the generalized propensity score under multiple imputation
Epidemiologic Methods
9
2019
INTEGRATING HAWKES PROCESS- ND BIOMASS MODELS TO CAPTURE IMPULSIVE POPULATION DYNAMICS
DCDIS Series B: Applications & Algorithms
2019
Integrating hawkes process- And biomass models to capture impulsive population dynamics
26
p. 153-170
2019
Investigation of statistical property in residual series after detrending
13-15 Dec
p. E1521
2019
An improved methodology for quantifying causality in complex ecological systems
PLOS ONE
14
p. 1-19
2019
Causal inference for marine ecosystem based on the total power contribution
Proceedings of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics
2019
An improved methodology for quantifying causality in complex ecological systems
PLOS ONE
14 (1)
2018
Statistical Portfolio Estimation
Chapman & Hall
2018
Causal inference for marine ecosystem based on total power
Proceedings of the Institute of Statistial Mathematics
66
p. 319-337
2018
Integrating Hawkes process and biomass models to capture impulsive population dynamics
Dynamics of continuous, discrete and impulsive systems
2018
Evolution of root apical meristem structures in vascular plants: plasmodesmatal networks
American Journal of Botany
105
p. 1453-1468
2018
Causal Drivers of Barents Sea Capelin (Mallotus villosus) Population Dynamics on Different Time Scales
ICES Journal of Marine Science
75
p. 621-630
2017
Portfolio estimation for spectral density of categorical time series data
Far East Journal of Theoretical Statistics
53
p. 19-33
2017
Temporal and geographical variation in body condition of common minke whales (Balaenoptera acutorostrata acutorostrata) in the Northeast Atlantic
Polar Biology
40
p. 667-683
2017
Whole genome resequencing reveals diagnostic markers for investigating global migration and hybridization between minke whale species
BMC Genomics
18:76
p. 1-11
2017
Temporal and geographical variation in body condition of common minke whales (Balaenoptera acutorostrata acutorostrata) in the Northeast Atlantic
Polar Biology
40
p. 667-683
2017
Microarray Analysis Using Rank Order Statistics for ARCH Residual Empirical Process
Open Journal of Statistics
7
p. 54-71
2016
Gene expression analysis supports tumor threshold over 2.0 cm for T-category breast cancer
EURASIP Journal on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
2016
2016
A systematic comparison of copy number alterations in four types of female cancer
BMC Cancer
16
2016
Canonical Correlation Analysis for Geographical and Chronological Responses
Procedia Computer Science
96
p. 1351-1360
2015
Canine Mammary Tumours Are Affected by Frequent Copy Number Aberrations, including Amplification of MYC and Loss of PTEN
PLOS ONE
10
2014
Investigating population genetic structure in a highly mobile marine organism: The minke whale balaenoptera acutorostrata acutorostrata in the north east atlantic
PLOS ONE
9
2014
DNA copy number profiles during tumor progression in breast cancer
Journal of Medical Statistics and Informatics
2
2014
Integrated analysis of high-resolution DNA methylation profiles, gene expression, germline genotypes and clinical end points in breast cancer patients
International Journal of Cancer
134
p. 2615-2625
2013
Quantitative DNA methylation analyses reveal stage dependent DNA methylation and association to clinico-pathological factors in breast tumors
BMC Cancer
13
2013
Treating lateral epicondylitis with corticosteroid injections or non-electrotherapeutical physiotherapy: a systematic review
BMJ Open
3
2013
Gene Expression Profile Analysis of T1 and T2 Breast Cancer Reveals Different Activation Pathways
ISRN Oncology
2013
2012
Let-7 miRNA-binding site polymorphism in the KRAS 3 ' UTR; colorectal cancer screening population prevalence and influence on clinical outcome in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer treated with 5-fluorouracil and oxaliplatin +/- cetuximab
BMC Cancer
12
2012
Tumor initiating but differentiated luminal-like breast cancer cells are highly invasive in the absence of basal-like activity
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
109
p. 6124-6129
2011
Allele-specific disparity in breast cancer
BMC Medical Genomics
4
p. 85-85
2011
Methylation profiling with a panel of cancer related genes: Association with estrogen receptor, TP53 mutation status and expression subtypes in sporadic breast cancer
Molecular Oncology
5
p. 61-76
2011
Linear and non-linear dependencies between copy number aberrations and mRNA expression reveal distinct molecular pathways in breast cancer
BMC Bioinformatics
12
2010
DNA methylatoin profiling in doxorubicin treated primary locally advanced breast tumors identifies novel genes associated with survival and treatment response
Molecular Cancer
9
2010
Methylation and mRNA expression profile provide supplementary information about the molecular characteristics of breast cancer tumours with clinical implications
European Journal of Cancer
8
p. 221-221
2010
Allele-specific aberrations and two dimensional disparity of copy number alterations in breast cancer
European Journal of Cancer
8
p. 207-207
2010
UGT-expression in breast tissue from healthy women is associated with mammographic density
European Journal of Cancer
8
p. 38-38
2010
SNPs in genes coding for ROS metabolism and signalling in association with docetaxel clearance
The Pharmacogenomics Journal
10
p. 513-523
2010
Frequent aberrant DNA methylation of ABCB1, FOXC1, PPP2R2B and PTEN in ductal carcinoma in situ and early invasive breast cancer
Breast Cancer Research
12
2010
DNA methylation profiling in doxorubicin treated primary locally advanced breast tumours identifies novel genes associated with survival and treatment response
Molecular Cancer
9
2010
Expression levels of uridine 5'-diphospho-glucuronosyltransferase genes in breast tissue from healthy women are associated with mammographic density
Breast Cancer Research
12
2010
Genotypes and haplotypes in the insulin-like growth factors, their receptors and binding proteins in relation to plasma metabolic levels and mammographic density
BMC Medical Genomics
3
2009
Frequent aberrant DNA methylation of ABCB1, FOXC1, PPP2R2B, and PTEN in DCIS and early invasive breast cancer
Breast Cancer Research
12
p. R3
2009
Frequency-domain Pearson distribution approach for independent component analysis (FD-Pearson-ICA) in blind source separation
IEEE transaction Audio, Speecha dn Language Processing
17
p. 639-649
2009
Frequency-Domain Pearson Distribution Approach for Independent Component Analysis (FD-Pearson-ICA) in Blind Source Separation
IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing
17
p. 639-649
2008
Generalized information criteria in model selection for locally stationary processes
Journal of the Japan Statistical Society
38
p. 157-171
2008
Classification and similarity analysis for fundamental frequency patterns in infant spoken language acquisition
Statistical Methodology
5
p. 187-208
2008
Voice activity detection based on adjustable linear prediction and GARCH models
Speech Communication
50
p. 476-486
2007
A voice activity detection based on an AR-GARCH model
The Institute of Elections, Information and Communication Engineers, D-II
p. 3210-3220
2007
Longitudinal developmental changes in the spectral peaks of vowels in a Japanese infant
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
121
p. 2272-2282
2006
A feature for voive activity detection derived from speech analysis with the exponential autoregressive model
ICASSP
ICASSP2006
2005
Statistical analysis for multiplicatively modulated nonlinear autoregressive model and its application to electrophysiological signal analysis in human
IEEE Transactions, Signal Processing
54
p. 3414-3425
2005
Multiplicatively modulated exponential autoregressive model for corticomuscular functional coupling
Signal Processing
85
p. 1287-1300
2002
Short- and Long-term changes in joint co-contraction associated with motor learning as revealed from surface EMG
Journal of Neurophysiology
88
p. 991-1004
2002
Adding data process feedback to the nolinear autoregressive model
Signal Processing
82
p. 1189-1204
1998
An application of the Bayesian time series model and statistical system analysis for F0 control
Journal of Speech Communication
24
p. 325-339
1996
A statistical system analysis for nonstationary bometric time series
Japanese Journal Medical Electronics and Biological Engineering
10
p. 36-42
1996
A Bayesian multivariate nonstationary time series model for estimating mutual relationships among variables
Journal of Econometrics
75
p. 147-161
1995
Economic system analysis
Mathematical Sicence
389
p. 50-57
1994
A study of human body balance by new multivariate feedback models with common low frequency components
Japanese Journal of Biometrics
15
p. 41-57
1991
Time series analysis of EEG: local weak stationary, self-similarity, normality
Insformation and Communication Engineers D-II
10
p. 1466-1471
Other journal contributions
2018
Correction: A systematic comparison of copy number alterations in four types of female cancer
BMC Cancer
18
2010
Allele-specific aberrations and two dimensional disparity of copy number alterations in breast cancer
European Journal of Cancer
8
p. 207-207
2010
Methylation and mRNA expression profile provide supplementary information about the molecular characteristics of breast cancer tumours with clinical implications
European Journal of Cancer
8
p. 221-221
2010
UGT-expression in breast tissue from healthy women is associated with mammographic density
European Journal of Cancer
8
p. 38-38
2009
Allele-specific aberrations and two dimensional disparity of copy number alterations in breast cancer
European Journal of Cancer
7
p. 317-317
Scientific lectures
2023
Whose fish are they? Opportunities and challenges arising from the range expansion of northern hake
2021
Human activites in the Barents Sea - temporal and spatial trends
2018
Distribution of rorquals and predatory fish in relation to prey in the Norwegian high Arctic
2016
Deriving Causal Drivers of Population Dynamics on Different Time Scales (CM Code–1:242)
2016
Updates 2014-2016: Preliminary abundance estimates of common minke whales in Svalbard 2014, the Norwegian Sea and Jan Mayen 2015, and the Jan Mayen area 2016, with distributional maps for minke, fin, humpback and sperm whales
2015
Abundance estimates of common minke whales in the Northeast Atlantic base don survey data collected over the period 2008-2013
2015
Measurement error model for the Norwegian minke whale surveys 2008-2013
2014
Correlations, Causalities, and the Prediction of Fisheries Time Series
Reports and dissertations
2024
Sjøpattedyrutvalget 2024 - Tilrådning om forskning og forvaltning
Rapport fra havforskningen
2024
Revision of the Norwegian-Russian Barents Sea Ecosystem Survey (BESS) - The current status and revision of the Norwegian sector of the BESS survey
Rapport fra havforskningen
2024
Working Group on the Integrated Assessments of the Norwegian Sea (WGINOR; outputs from 2023 meeting)
ICES Scientific Reports
6
2023
Panel-based Assessment of Ecosystem Condition of Norwegian Barents Sea Shelf Ecosystems
Rapport fra havforskningen
2023
Panel-based Assessment of Ecosystem Condition of Norwegian Barents Sea Shelf Ecosystems - Appendices
Rapport fra havforskningen
2023
Working group on the integrated assessments of the Norwegian Sea (WGINOR, outputs from 2022 meeting)
ICES Scientific Reports
5
2023
Panel-based Assessment of Ecosystem Condition of Norwegian Barents Sea Shelf Ecosystems
2023
Panel-based Assessment of Ecosystem Condition of Norwegian Barents Sea Shelf Ecosystems - Appendices
2023
Panel-based Assessment of Ecosystem Condition of the Norwegian Sea Pelagic Ecosystem
2023
Panel-based Assessment of Ecosystem Condition of the North Sea Shelf Ecosystem
2023
Panel-based Assessment of Ecosystem Condition of the North Sea Shelf Ecosystem - Appendices
Net reports
Net reports
- Sjøpattedyrutvalget 2024
- Revision of the Norwegian-Russian Barents Sea Ecosystem Survey (BESS)
- Panel-based Assessment of Ecosystem Condition of the North Sea Shelf Ecosystem
- Panel-based Assessment of Ecosystem Condition of the North Sea Shelf Ecosystem - Appendices
- Panel-based Assessment of Ecosystem Condition of the Norwegian Sea Pelagic Ecosystem
- Panel-based Assessment of Ecosystem Condition of Norwegian Barents Sea Shelf Ecosystems
- Panel-based Assessment of Ecosystem Condition of Norwegian Barents Sea Shelf Ecosystems - Appendices
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