Dr. Shunichi Koshimura

Dr. Shunichi Koshimura is a Professor of International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku University and the founding deputy director of the Co-creation Center for Disaster Resilience. Tohoku University. At Tohoku, he is also a Professor of the Graduate School of Engineering. Koshimura teaches classes on Disaster Management, Coastal Engineering, and Numerical Modeling. His research focuses on "Real-time Disaster Science" that aims to assess social impacts of natural disasters by fusion of numerical modeling, earth observation and geo-informatics with HPCI (High Performance Computing Infrastructure). He is also an inventor with 6 patents. Koshimura is a Co-Founder and CTO of RTi-cast, university-based technology start-up to offer real-time tsunami inundation damage forecast services to government organizations and commercial clients. Koshimura received Ph.D. degree from the Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University in 2000. After graduating Tohoku University, he started his career as a JSPS research fellow in Earthquake Research Institute, the University of Tokyo, and in Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL), NOAA, USA. In 2005, He joined the Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University as an associate professor, then in 2012, International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku University, as a full professor.