Prof. Sameh Ahmed Kantoush has been a Professor at the Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI), Kyoto University since 2014. He received his Master’s and Doctorate degrees in civil and environmental engineering from Saga University in Japan and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland, respectively. Before joining Kyoto, he served at The German University in Cairo (GUC) in the capacity of an Associate Professor in the Civil Engineering Program. His research interests span the fundamentals of shallow flow and sediment transport, Wadi Flash Flood, sustainability in reservoirs, and Transboundary Rivers. Prof. Sameh Ahmed Kantoush is collaboratively leading research for developing monitoring techniques such as Large Scale Particle Image Velocimetry (LSPIV) and image techniques, turbidity, sediment deposition thickness, and sediment transport rate, for experimental and prototype investigations. In addition, he is a member of the Japan Society of Civil Engineers (JSCE) and the Syndicate of Engineers in Egypt. His industrial expertise is predominantly pertinent to infrastructure projects at multinational consulting firms in many countries.