Sawada Group

Associate Professor

yohei.sawada [at] sogo.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Biographical Sketch: Dr. Yohei Sawada received his Ph.D. degree in engineering from the University of Tokyo in 2016. He started his professional career as a post-doctoral researcher at RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science from 2016. From Apr. 2017 to Mar. 2019, he was a researcher at the Japan Meteorological Agency Meteorological Research Institute (JMA-MRI). He is now leading the research group at the University of Tokyo towards his goals of advancing the technology to observe, predict and control social spaces against hydrometeorological disasters.

Research interest: Hydrometeorological disaster prediction, simulation-observation integration

Project Lecturer

leduc [at] sogo.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp

https://sites.google.com/view/le-duc/home 

Biographical Sketch: Dr. Le Duc graduated from Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Vietnam, in 2008 with a PhD in Meteorology. Before moving to Japan in 2011, he served as deputy manager of numerical weather prediction (NWP) at National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting of Vietnam. From 2011 to 2020, he was a researcher at Japan Agency for Marine, Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC). Before joining University of Tokyo, he worked as a researcher at Japan Meteorological Business Support Center (JMBSC). At the same time, he has been a visiting researcher at Japan Meteorological Agency Meteorological Research Institute (JMA-MRI) since 2011. Dr. Le Duc interests in applying mathematics and computational science to understand complex systems.

Research interest: Meteorology, Data assimilation, Numerical Modelling

Project Researcher 

fahim.islam[at] sogo.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp

https://sites.google.com/view/md-rezuanul-islam-fahim/home 

Biographical Sketch: Dr. Md Rezuanul Islam Fahim received his Ph.D. degree in Risk and Disaster Science from the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2021. He was awarded MEXT scholarship funded by the Japan Government during his graduate studies. Before moving to Japan in 2016, he worked for international organizations (Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, ActionAid Bangladesh) as a Research and Geographic Information System Assistant. He completed his MEng. in Risk and Disaster Science from the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2018 and Bachelor of Urban and Regional Planning from Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh in 2014. Dr. Md Rezuanul Islam Fahim is particularly interested in advancing compound hydrometeorological hazard assessment and improving early warning by integrating science, engineering, and humanities.

Research interest: Natural hazards and risk analysis, Environmental data analysis and Trend studies, Disaster resilience and risk management

Project Researcher 

sneha.kulkarni[at] sogo.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp

https://sites.google.com/view/snehakulkarni/home 

Biographical Sketch: Dr. Sneha Shrinivas Kulkarni obtained her Ph.D. in Resources Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India, in 2022. During her doctoral studies, she was awarded the Fulbright-Kalam Climate Doctoral Fellowship and worked as a visiting researcher at the National Drought Mitigation Center Nebraska, USA. Dr. Sneha received her master's degree in Geoinformatics from ITC, the Netherlands, and MSc in Geography (Climatology) from the University of Pune, India. She was the recipient of the Netherland Fellowship Program (NFP) for her masters in the Netherlands. Dr. Sneha has a keen interest in developing remote sensing and GIS techniques for the eco-hydrological and socio-meteorological applications to (re)build resilience in society. Dr. Sneha has also received a diploma in Journalism and is passionate about science popularization; hence apart from research, you can find her writing blogs and magazine articles to bring science to society.

Research Interest: Climate variability, Drought monitoring and prediction, Hazard, Risk, and Vulnerability analysis, Geospatial technology

Project Researcher

kenshi.hibino[at]sogo.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Biographical Sketch: Dr. Kenshi Hibino received his Ph.D. degree in science from Kyoto University in 2013. He started his professional career as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Tsukuba in 2013 and worked for various climate change impact assessments under the SOUSEI Programs of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology of Japan. From Oct. 2016 to May. 2023, he was a project researcher and assistant professor (Oct. 2018~) at the Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo. He was in the developing team of Today’s Earth and was interested in the multi-model and multi-initial-condition impact assessments of extreme weather events. He is now working as a project researcher at the Built Environmental Informatics group at the University of Tokyo to improve tropical cyclone prediction using data-driven techniques, e.g., data assimilation.

Research interest: simulation-observation integration, climate change assessment

Technical Staff

Secretary 

Secretary 

Graduate Student  

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Graduate Student

Undergrad Student

Undergrad Student

Hitomu Kotani (Assistant Professor --> Kyoto University)

Rin Kanai (Undergrad) 

Shuhei Nomura (Undergrad)

Norihiro Miwa (MSc. Graduate Student) 

Takayuki Kimizuka (Undergrad) 

Yuya Kageyama (Technical staff --> Public Works Research Institute)

Futo Tomizawa (MSc. Graduate Student)

Yuki Hirose (Undergrad) 

AdarSha NEUPANE (MSc. Graduate Student) 

Pavithra Neelangi WEERASINGHEE (MSc. Graduate Student) 

Juyoung JO (MSc. Graduate Student) 

Yuta Itsumi (Ph.D. Graduate Student --> Kyusyu University)

Kei Aoki (MSc. Graduate Student)