KAWASAKI AKIYUKI

Prof. Kawasaki is Project Professor of Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Tokyo. His current research focuses on water-related disaster risk and poverty reduction in Asian from interdisciplinary applications of engineering and social science approach. He is leading several interdisciplinary research projects in China, India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka and Thailand in collaboration with experts in various fields, such as economics, cultural anthropology, historiography, and informatics using GIS as a collaboration platform.

As a member of the Earth Observation Data Integration & Fusion Research Initiative (EDITORIA) of The University of Tokyo, he contributes to the development of the Data Integration and Analysis System (DIAS), a global environmental data platform supported by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT). He stayed at Harvard during 2008-2009 as a Visiting Scholar at Center for Geographic Analysis (CGA) and School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and will again stay at CGA from Aug. 2019 to Jul. 2020.