Dr. Mohamed Rasmy is a Senior Researcher at the International Centre for Water Hazard and Risk Management under the auspices of UNESCO (ICHARM), Public Works Research Institute, Tsukuba, Japan, and an Adjunct Professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), Japan. He completed his BSc studies in Engineering with first-class honors at the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka in 2002, MSc studies in Engineering at the University of Tokyo, Japan in 2006, and PhD studies in Civil Engineering at the University of Tokyo, Japan in 2010. His research interests include hydrological modeling and prediction, satellite remote sensing, water resources management, weather and climate predictions, and satellite data assimilation methods.