Doctor Masakazu Hashimoto is an associate professor at the Department of Civil, Environmental and Applied Systems Engineering, Kansai University. Previously, he was an assistant professor at the School of Engineering, Tohoku University (2018– 2023). He completed his PhD study in Integrated River Basin Management at the University of Yamanashi in 2014. He has received multiple awards, including the Excellent Presentation Award from the Society for Regional Safety in 2022 and the Academic Presentation Award from the Japan Society for Natural Disaster Prevention (2014, 2015, 2017, 2019, and 2021). He has several academic professional memberships, including the Japan Society for Natural Disaster Science and the International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research. His research interests include Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing, Health Risks, Riverbed Fluctuations, Flooding Analysis, and River Bank Erosion.