Saito began teaching at the Department of Mathematics at the
University of California, Davis in 1997, where he is currently a distinguished professor and a director of the UC Davis TETRAPODS Institute of
Data Science, one of
National Science Foundation's Transdisciplinary Research In Principles Of Data Science (TRIPODS) Institutes, which brings together the theoretical computer science, electrical engineering, mathematics, and statistics communities to develop the theoretical foundations of data science. He was also Chair of the Graduate Group in Applied Mathematics at UC Davis from 2007 to 2012. He is a senior member of
IEEE as well as a member of
IMS,
SIAM, and
JSIAM. He served as Chair of the SIAM Activity Group on Imaging Science from 2013 to 2015, and is a member of the editorial board of
Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis,
Inverse Problems and Imaging, and
Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision. as well as the
Henri Doll Award from
Schlumberger (1997), Young Investigator Award from the
ONR (2000), and the
Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) (2000). as well as the
Lake Tahoe Sonification Project in 2014. == References ==