Dr. Tomoya Kawasaki is a Lecturer at the Department of Systems Innovation, School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo, Japan. He received a DEng from the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan in 2012 and an MEng from the Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand in 2008, as well as a BEng from Nihon University, Tokyo, Japan in 2006. He worked as a researcher at the Japan Maritime Center from 2011–2013, and was Assistant Professor at Nihon University from 2013–2016, as well as Assistant Professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology from 2016–2020. His research interests are supply chain management, transport logistics, and maritime transport. He received Best Paper awards from the Japan Logistics Society (2014, 2020), the Japan Society of Logistics and Shipping Economics (2014) and the International Conference on Transport and Logistics (T-LOG) (2018, 2020).