Takahiko Uchide

• Planning Officer, Research Strategy Planning Office, Research Strategy Planning Department, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan,
  also at Geological Survey of Japan, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan. 

• Nickname: Taka 

• Nationality: Japanese 

• Sex: Male (he/him/his)

• ORCID: 0000-0001-5106-1186

• researchmap: uchide

• ResearcherID: D-2093-2009

• Google Scholar: Takahiko Uchide

• E-mail: t_uchide/aist_go_jp

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  • E-mails in English or Japanese are welcome. 

Research Field

• Earthquake Seismology

  • Earthquake Source Physics

  • Seismicity Studies

• Data Analysis

  • Time-series Data and Spectral Analyses for Seismograms

  • Statistical Analysis for Earthquake Catalog

  • Seismic Data Processing Supported by Seismic Sonification

  • Seismic Data Processing by Machine Learning

Education

• Doctor (Science), The University of Tokyo, Japan, March 2009. 

  • Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Graduate School of Science 

  • Dissertation: "Observational study on the self-similarity of earthquake rupture growth in Parkfield area" [The University of Tokyo Library] 

  • Advisor: Prof. Satoshi Ide 

• Masters (Science), The University of Tokyo, Japan, March 2006. 

  • Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Graduate School of Science 

  • Advisor: Prof. Satoshi Ide 

• Bachelor (Science), The University of Tokyo, Japan, March 2004. 

  • Department of Earth and Planetary Physics, Faculty of Science

• Graduated from Tsuchiura 1st High School, Ibaraki, Japan, in March, 1998. 

Employment

• Apr 2013 - present: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan. 

  • Oct 2023 - present: Planning Officer, Research Strategy Planning Office, Research Strategy Planning Department

  • Oct 2023 - present: also at Seismotectonics Research Group, Research Institute of Earthquake and Volcano Geology, Geological Survey of Japan (GSJ) 

  • Apr 2022 - Sep 2023: Chief Senior Researcher, Seismotectonics Research Group, Research Institute of Earthquake and Volcano Geology, Geological Survey of Japan (GSJ)

  • Oct 2017 - Mar 2022: Senior Researcher, Seismotectonics Research Group, Research Institute of Earthquake and Volcano Geology, Geological Survey of Japan (GSJ)

  • Apr 2014 - Sep 2017: Researcher, Seismotectonics Research Group, Research Institute of Earthquake and Volcano Geology, Geological Survey of Japan (GSJ)

  • Apr 2013 - Mar 2014: Researcher, Seismogenic Process Research Team, Active Fault and Earthquake Research Center, Geological Survey of Japan (GSJ)

• Apr 2022 - Sep 2022: Adjunct Lecturer, Faculty of Science, Shizuoka University, Japan.

  • Intensive lectures in Sep 2022.

• Apr 2010 - Mar 2013: Kyoto University, Japan. 

  • JSPS Research Fellow (PD), Earthquake Hazards Division, Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI) 

  • Host Researcher: Prof. James J. Mori 

• Jun 2009 - Sep 2011: University of California, San Diego (UCSD), USA. 

  • Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP), Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO)

  • Advisor: Prof. Peter M. Shearer 

• Apr 2008 - Mar 2010: The University of Tokyo, Japan. 

  • Apr 2009 - Mar 2010: JSPS Research Fellow (PD), promotion due to the acquisition of Doctorate Degree. 

  • Apr 2008 - Mar 2009: JSPS Research Fellow (DC2), Department of Earth and Planetary Science Graduate School of Science

  • Host Researcher: Prof. Satoshi Ide 

• 1 Sep - 1 Oct, 2006: Oversea Internship of 21COE Program, the University of Tokyo 

  • Host Institute: Earthquake Seismology Group, Department of Geophysics, School of Earth Sciences, Stanford University, USA. 

  • Host Researcher: Prof. Gregory C. Beroza 

Awards

• 4 Feb 2020: Excellent Reviewer, Earth, Planet, and Space (EPS)

• 30 Apr 2014: Young Scientist Award, Seismological Society of Japan. 

• 20 Feb 2013: Presentation Award of DPRI Annual Meeting, Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, Japan. 

• 23 Mar 2009: Research Encourage Award (Doctor), Graduate School of Science, the University of Tokyo, Japan. 

Teaching Experience

• Intensive Lecture at Faculty of Science, Shizuoka University, Japan (28 Sep 2022 - 29 Sep 2022)

Mentoring Experience

• Graduate Students

  • Mariano Supino (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy; AIST Technical Trainee) (2 Jul  2018 - 20 Aug 2018)

    • Currently a Researcher at INGV, Italy.

  • Junyu Yu (University of Tsukuba, Japan; AIST Research Assistant) (1 May 2019 - 31 March 2020)

  • Amane Sugii (Kanazawa University, Japan; AIST Technical Trainee) (21 Aug 2023 - 1 Sep 2023)

  • Masaki Orimo (Tohoku University, Japan; AIST Technical Trainee) (4 Sep 2023 - 8 Sep 2023)

• Postdocs

  • Ryo Okuwaki (Geological Survey of Japan, AIST; JSPS Research Fellow (PD)) (1 Apr 2019 - 15 Jun. 2019)

    • Currently an Assistant Professor at University of Tsukuba, Japan.

  • Yuta Amezawa (Postdoc at Geological Survey of Japan, AIST) (1 April 2022 - 31 Aug 2023)

    • Currently an Assistant Professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan.

  • Kodai Sagae (Postdoc at Geological Survey of Japan, AIST) (1 April 2022 - present)

  • Yasunori Sawaki (Postdoc at Geological Survey of Japan, AIST) (1 April 2023 - present)

  • Admore Phindani Mpuang (Postdoc at Geological Survey of Japan, AIST) (1 April 2024 - present)

Research Grant

• Sep 2021 - present (Mar 2026): Grand-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A), KAKENHI, TU as a Collaborator.

  • Research Project: "Science for Slow-to-Fast Earthquakes"

  • Principal Investigator: Satoshi Ide (Univ. Tokyo)

• Jul 2021 - present (Mar 2026): STAR-E Project, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), Japan

  • Research Project: "Exploration of underground faults by seismic wave big data using signal processing and machine learning"

  • Principal Investigator (PI): Takahiko Uchide (AIST)

  • Co-Investigators: Drs. Jun Ogata, Haruo Horikawa, Satoru Fukayama, Takahiro Shiina, Yuta Amezawa (from Mar 2022), and Yoshihiro Sato (from Mar 2022) (AIST)

  • Research Collaborator: Prof. Hiroki Kuroda (Ritsumeikan University → Nagaoka University of Technology)

  • Budget: about 21 million Japanese Yen for Fiscal Year 2021

• Oct 2018 - Sep 2019: Natural Science Research Grant, Mitsubishi Foundation

  • Research Project: "Development of the Automatic Process System for Seismograms based on the Deep Learning Technique."

  • 4 million Japanese Yen in total

• Apr 2017 - Mar 2020: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B), KAKENHI, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)

  • Research Project "Quantitative Evaluation of Earthquake Triggerability by Dynamic Stress Perturbation" as a Principal Investigator

  • 3.2 million Japanese Yen for three years

• Sep 2013 - Mar 2015: Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up, KAKENHI, JSPS

  • Research Project "Statistics of P-wave Polarization and Development of High-Sensitivity Detection Method of Earthquakes" as a Principal Investogator

  • 1.5 million Japanese Yen for two years

• Jul 2012: Travel Grant for the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, JSPS

• Apr 2010 - Mar 2013: Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows, KAKENHI, JSPS

  • Research Project "Transition of Frequency Contents of Seismic Radiation during Earthquake Rupture"

  • 2.8 million Japanese Yen for three years

• Dec 2009 - Mar 2010: Oversea Research Grant for Excellent Young Researchers, JSPS

  • Host Institute: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego

  • Host Researcher: Prof. Peter M. Shearer

• Apr 2008 - Mar 2010: Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows, KAKENHI, JSPS

  • "Scaling Law of Earthquake Rupture Growth"

  • 1.2 million Japanese Yen for two years

• Dec 2007: Oversea Travel Grant, Seismological Society of Japan

  • 2007 AGU Fall Meeting at San Francisco

• Apr 2006 - Mar 2008: Research Assistantship, 21COE Program, The University of Tokyo

Research Achievement

• The lists of peer-reviewed papers and reports are here.

Societies

• Japan Geoscience Union (JpGU) (Regular Member in Solid Earth Sciences Section) 

• Seismological Society of Japan (SSJ) (Regular Member) 

• American Geophysical Union (AGU) (Regular Member) 

• Seismological Society of America (SSA) (Regular Member) 

• The Physical Society of Japan (JPS) (Regular Member) 

Professional Services

• Journal Editor

  • Guest Editor, Special Issue on Improving Measurements of Earthquake Source Parameters, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

• Journal Paper Review (See Web of Science)

  • Geophysical Research Letters

  • Reviews of Geophysics

  • Geophysical Journal International

  • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth

  • International Journal of Earth Sciences

  • Earth, Planets and Space

  • Nature Geoscience

  • Seismological Research Letters

  • Scientific Reports

  • Nature Communications

  • Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

  • Science Advances

  • Tectonophysics

  • Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (TAO)

  • Annals of Geophysics

  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters

  • Pure and Applied Geophysics

  • Geosciences

  • Solid Earth

  • Journal of Geodynamics

  • Journal of Disaster Research

  • Artificial Intelligence in Geosciences

• Committee Membership 

  • Oct. 2019 - Oct. 2020: Chair, Committee for the 2020 Seismology Summer School, Seismological Society of Japan

  • Oct. 2019 - Mar. 2020: Member, Editorial Board of the 6th Monograph, Seismological Society of Japan

  • Jun. 2018 - Jun. 2020: Member,  Conference for the Public Relations of Seismology, Seismological Society of Japan

  • May 2018 - Jun. 2020: Board Member, Seismological Society of Japan

  • Apr. 2017 - Mar. 2023: Editorial Committee of News Letter, Seismological Society of Japan

    • Apr. 2020 - Mar. 2023: Member

    • Apr. 2018 - Mar. 2020: Chair

    • Apr. 2017 - Mar. 2018: Member

  • Apr. 2016 - present (- Mar. 2026): Delegate, Seismological Society of Japan

  • May 2015 - Jul. 2023: Liaison person for AIST, Seismological Society of Japan

• Session Convener at Conferences

  • Co-Convener, Japan Geoscience Union (JpGU) Meeting 2024, S-SS04 "New Trends in Data Acquisition, Analysis and Interpretation of Seismicity" with Francesco Grigoli (Primary Convener), Bogdan Enescu, and Yosuke Aoki.

  • Primary Convener, Japan Geoscience Union (JpGU) Meeting 2022, S-SS04 "Seismic Spectra for Source, Subsurface Structure, and Strong-motion Studies" with Rachel E. Abercrombie, Kuo-Fong Ma, and Kazuhiro Somei.

  • Primary Convener, Seismological Society of Japan (SSJ) Fall Meeting 2021, S21 "Seismic Spectral Analyses for Earthquake Source Physics, Earth Structure Estimation, and Strong Motion Assessment" with Kazuhiro Somei and Junichi Nakajima.

  • Primary Convener, Seismological Society of Japan (SSJ) Fall Meeting 2019, S22 "Potentiality of Machine Learning in Seismology" with Yuki Kodera and Hisahiko Kubo.

  • Primary Convener, Japan Geoscience Union (JpGU) Meeting 2019, S-CG62 "Potentiality of Machine Learning in Solid Earth Sciences" with Hirokuni Oda.

  • Convener, 2019 Seismological Society of America (SSA) Annual Meeting, "Machine Learning in Seismology", with Youzuo Lin (corresponding convener), Sepideh Karimi, Qingkai Kong, Dario Baturan, Zhigang Peng, Ting Chen, Andrew Delorey, Min Chen, Chengping Chai, and Paul Johnson. 

  • Primary Convener, 2018 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, S11B, S12B, S13A, & S21C, "Earthquake Source Physics Inferred from Macroscopic Source Parameters and Seismicity Parameters" with Marine Denolle and Hiroki Sone.

  • Primary Convener, 2017 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, S31C, S33E, & S34B, "Earthquake Source Properties inferred from Macroscopic Earthquake Source Parameters and Seismicity Parameters" with Xiaowei Chen and Hiroki Sone.

  • Primary Convener, JpGU-AGU Joint Meeting 2017, S-SS06, "From Earthquake Source and Seismicity Parameters to Fault Properties and Strong-motion Assessment" with Bogdan Enescu and Hiroki Sone. (Posters, Oral #1, and #2)

  • Primary Convener, 2016 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, S13A & S21E "Macroscopic Earthquake Source Parameter Studies: from Basic to Application" with Xiaowei Chen and Germán Prieto

  • Primary Convener, 2015 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, S43E, S44A, & S51A "Earthquake Source Studies: Advances in Investigation of Parameters of Simple Source Models" with Xiaowei Chen and Germán Prieto 

• Judge for Awards 

  • Outstanding Student Presentation Award, American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting (2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2018) 

  • Student Outstanding Presentation Awards, Solid Earth Sciences Section, JpGU Meeting (2013, 2014) 

  • Student Outstanding Presentation Awards, Seismological Society of Japan (SSJ) Fall Meeting (2016, 2017, 2018)