Group Members

We are looking for new Postdoc, PhD students, and Master/Bachelor students to join the team (see Join Us page) !

Staff / Students

All research staff members belong to Institute of Industrial Science, while students belong to the Department of Civil Engineering or Grad Program for Environmental Sciences: GPES.

Dai Yamazaki : 山崎 大

PI: Associate professor ( Apr 2018- )
mail: yamadai [at] rainbow.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Xudong Zhou : 周 旭东

Project Assistant Professor ( Sep 2019- )
mail: x.zhou [at] rainbow.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Megumi Watanabe : 渡辺 恵

JSPS Postdoc ( Apr 2019- )
mail: megumi [at] rainbow.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Menaka Revel : මේනක රෙවෙල්

Postdoc ( Nov 2019- )
mail: menaka [at] rainbow.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Gang Zhao : 赵 刚

Postdoc ( May 2022- )
mail: gangzhao [at] rainbow.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp

  • Flood hydrology; Hydrological modelling; Machine learning
  • Research Gate

Yuki Kita : 北 祐樹

Postdoc ( Jul 2021- )
mail: ykita [at] rainbow.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Prakat Modi : प्रकट मोदी

Postdoc ( Oct 2022- )
mail: modi [at] rainbow.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Taishi Yazawa : 矢澤 大志

Postdoc ( Oct 2022- )
mail: yazawa [at] rainbow.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp

  • Runoff simulation; Hydrological frequency analysis; Integrated water resources management; Water diplomacy; Environmental education

Yuki Kimura : 木村雄貴

Collab Researcher ( Oct 2021- )
mail: ykimura [at] rainbow.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Xianmeng Meng : 孟宪萌

Visiting Scholar ( Dec 2022- )
mail: mengxm[at]rainbow.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp

  • Hydrological process simulation; Watershed geomorphology; Groundwater simulation

Shuping Li : 李 庶平

Ph.D student ( Sep 2020- )
mail: shuping [at] rainbow.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Yang Hu : 胡 阳

Ph.D student ( Sep 2020- )
mail: yang.hu [at] rainbow.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Yuki Ishikawa : 石川 悠生

Ph.D student ( Oct 2022- )
mail: yishikawa [at] rainbow.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp

  • At-many-stations Hydraulic Geometry; Remote Sensing; Water resources assessment
  • Google Scholar

Youjiang Shen : 沈友江

Ph.D student ( Oct 2022- )
mail: yjshen2022 [at] rainbow.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Kosuke Hattori : 服部公輔

Master ( Apr 2019- )
mail: khattori [at] rainbow.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp

  • Socio-ecomonic impact from climate change

Uddin Shahab : উদ্দিন শাহাব

Master ( Apr 2021- )
mail: uddin [at] rainbow.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Ikuto Kanbe : 神戸育人

Master ( Apr 2021- )
mail: i.kanbe [at] rainbow.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp

  • Climate change,Flood projection

Takumi Bannai : 坂内 匠

Master ( Apr 2021- )
mail: bannai [at] rainbow.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp

  • Remote sensing, Precipitation estimation, Machine learning

Naho Yoden : 余田 奈穂

Master ( Apr 2022- )
mail: nyoden [at] rainbow.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp

  • Water resources modelling in arid river basins

Shoji Takeshi : 庄司 健

Master ( Apr 2022- )
mail: tshoji [at] rainbow.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp

  • Supply chain impact by flood hazard

Yining Sun : 孙 一宁

Undergrad ( Oct 2022- )
mail: yining [at] rainbow.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp

  • PEAK Program

Xue Xie : 解 雪

Visiting PhD ( Nov 2022- )
mail: xue [at] rainbow.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp

  • CSC scholarship, from Sun Yat-sen University

Ruida Zhong : 钟 睿达

Visiting PhD ( Nov 2022- )
mail: zhongrd3 [at] rainbow.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp

  • CSC scholarship, from Sun Yat-sen University

Xiaohu Yu : 余 晓虎

Exchange student ( Oct 2022- )
mail: xiaohu [at] rainbow.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp

  • UTokyo EAP program, from Tonji University

Mizuki Funato : 船戸 未月

UROP student ( May 2022- )
mail:

  • Mekong River hydrodynamics simulation considering reservoir and climate change

Takaaki Okouchi : 大河内 隆暁

UROP student ( Oct 2022- )
mail:

  • ICESat-2 lidar altimetry for river cross-section shape retrieval

Collaborators / Alumni

Kei Yoshimura : 芳村 圭

( Apr 2018- ) Global Hydrology Group

Yukiko Hirabayashi : 平林 由希子

( Apr 2018- ) Research Fellow

  • Professor @ Shibaura Institute of Technology
  • WebPage

Taikan Oki : 沖 大幹

( Apr 2018- ) Global Hydrology Group

Victor Pellet :

( Jul 2019 - Nov 2020 ) JSPS Fellow

Hiroaki Ikeuchi : 池内 寛明

( Apr 2015 - Mar 2018 ) Ph.D Student

  • River + tide/surge model coupling
  • WebPage

Jida Wang : 王 継達

( Apr 2022 - ) Visiting Scholar

  • Associate Professor @ Kansas State University. Hydrological remote sensing: lake dynamics, hydrosphere-cryosphere interaction, human impacts.
  • WebPage

Etienne Fluet-Chouinard : Etienne Fluet-Chouinard

( June 2022- ) JSPS Postdoc

Dirk Eilander :

( Mar 2019 - May 2019 ) Visitng Ph.D Student

  • Compound flood risk modelling
  • River network upscaling
  • WebPage

Thanh Duc Dang : Đặng Đức Thanh

( Jul 2021-Aug2021 ) JSPS Fellow

Monica Coppo :

( Sep 2022- Dec 2022 ) Visiting PhD student

  • From Technical University of Denmark

Former Students

Prakat Modi : प्रकट मोदी
PhD, 2022Sep

Sawa Shimokawa : 下川さわ
MA, 2022Mar

Ruiqi Li : 李 瑞琪
MA, 2021Sep

Kota Adachi : 足立幸太
MA, 2021Mar

Kotaro Hamada : 浜田 光太郎
MA, 2021Mar

Robuil MD Islam : মোঃ রবিউল ইসলাম
MA, 2020Sep

Yuki Ishikawa : 石川 悠生
BA, 2020Mar

Takuto Shiozawa : 塩澤 拓斗
MA, 2020Mar

Yoshiaki Tanaka : 田中 良明
MA, 2020Mar

Ryo Taguchi : 田口諒
MA, 2019Mar

Hiroaki Ikeuchi : 池内 寛明
PhD, 2019Mar

Please also visit the list of student thesis (PhD/MA/BA thesis)

Administrative Support

Minako Yokoyama (m-yoko [at] iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp) and Yuki Tsukada (tsuka [at] rainbow.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp) are helping us (and other groups) with administration.