Tomohiro Yasuda is an associate professor in coastal engineering of Department of Civil, Environmental and Applied Systems Engineering, Kansai University, Japan since 2016. He graduated and received PhD from Kyoto University in 2002. He was an assistant professor in coastal disaster section of Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University from 2004 till 2016. His research topics are climate change impact on coastal disasters, storm surge projection, stochastic modelling of typhoons, performance design of coastal structures, tsunami disaster mitigation, and optimum estimation of coastal defence level considering town planning.