Shunichi Koshimura is a professor at the International Research Institute of Disaster Science at Tohoku University. At Tohoku, he is also a professor at the Graduate School of Engineering. Koshimura teaches classes on disaster management, coastal engineering, numerical modeling, and remote sensing. 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 High Performance Computing Infrastructure.
Koshimura is a co-founder and CTO of RTi-cast, a university-based technology start-up that offers real-time tsunami inundation damage forecast services to government organizations and commercial clients. RTi-cast is officially licensed by the Japan Meteorological Agency to provide tsunami forecast services.
Koshimura received his PhD from the Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University in 2000. After graduating from Tohoku University, he started his career as a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science research fellow at the Earthquake Research Institute at the University of Tokyo and the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. In 2005, he joined the Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, as an associate professor. In 2012, he joined the International Research Institute of Disaster Science at Tohoku University as a full professor.
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