- Research Areas: Disaster Prevention Engineering, Hydroengineering, Safety Engineering, Social Systems Engineering, High-performance Computing, Solid Earth Science
- Profile: He is the Deputy Director and a Professor at the International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku University. At Tohoku, he is also a professor in the Graduate School of Engineering. His research focuses on 'Real-time Disaster Science' that aims to enhance disaster resilience by fusion of numerical modeling, earth observation, and geo-informatics with HPCI (High Performance Computing Infrastructure).