Dr. Nick Barua (ニック・バルア) is a physicist, researcher, and technology executive based in Hyogo, Japan. He serves as Chairman and CEO of AN Holdings Co., a director of New Space Intelligence Inc., and Executive Chairman of Hucha Co., Ltd. He holds a B.Sc. in Physics from Yale University, an M.Sc. in Astrophysics from Caltech, and a Ph.D. from the University of Hertfordshire. He is a Visiting Professor at Shiga University of Medical Science (Department of Legal Medicine), Kobe Gakuin University (Department of Social Studies of Disaster Management), and the University of Science and Technology, Chittagong. His research bridges forensic biomechanics, multimodal sensor fusion, and ISO 26262-aligned functional safety, focusing on detecting and protecting non-upright pedestrians and improving electric-vehicle battery state-of-health monitoring as a safety variable. He has authored seven peer-reviewed journal articles, five as first or sole author, including work in Scientific Reports, Vehicles, Sensors, and Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine, and holds one pending Japanese patent application (特願2025-167440) for a multimodal sensor-fusion system. Earlier work spans computational astrophysics and galactic evolution. His current research programme includes the Unified Fatality Risk Model and the AFODS (Automated Fallen Object Detection System) framework, connecting forensic evidence to proactive vehicle-safety decision systems.