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- Senior Lecturer
- Dept of Civil, Environ &Geomatic Eng
- Faculty of Engineering Science
After completion of my Master, I was working at East Japan Railway Company as a civil engineer. I was fortunate to be involved in (and to manage a part of) the redevelopment of stations, such as Shinjyuku, Ikebukuro and Naoetsu. Some of the station infrastructure (including the new #0 platform of Shinjyuku) has my name in its records because I was the designer for it.
I started my PhD in 2002 at Centre for Transport Studies, UCL and continued my PhD research while I started working as a Research Assistant in 2004. As a Research Assistant, I was engaged in various pedestrian-related projects, including Designing Platform Humps for London Underground and Investigation into Train Dwell Time for Thameslink.
I became a lecture in 2009, and started my own group: Resilience Research Group www.ucl.ac.uk/resilience-research.
Qualifications
- 2009: Doctor of Philosophy, University College London
- 1997: Master of Science, Waseda University
- 1995: Bachelor of Science, Waseda University
- Ageing
- Environment
- Population Health
- Risk & Security
- Sustainable Cities
- Systems Engineering
- Transport


My recent research interest includes the resilience of infrastructure including transport systems.
I have projects in the following areas.
- Design of Transport Environments and Behaviour of Users, especially vulnerable users.
- Resilience of National Infrastructure and User Responses
- Railway Infrastructure and Operation. Integration of user elements into operation systems.
For the details of the projects I manage/supervise, please visit www.ucl.ac.uk/resilience-research
Undergraduate
Module coordinator: Transport Studies
Module coordinator: Scenario 4 (CIVIL1009 Change Cluster)
Module coordinator: Public Transport
Lectures on railway and public transport
MSc in Rail Integrated Design Management
Course coordinator
MAR-2020 | Member of Editorial Board | Municipal Engineer | Institution of Civil Engineers, United Kingdom |
OCT-2016 | External Examiner | Institute for University to Business Education | Glasgow Caledonian University, United Kingdom |
2013 – 2014 | Member of Graduate School Major Award Funding Committee | Graduate School | UCL, United Kingdom |
01-OCT-2011 | Departmental Graduate Tutor | Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering | University College London , United Kingdom |
OCT-2011 | Co-Director | Centre for Urban Sustainabilty and Resilience | UCL, United Kingdom |
2009 | Doctor of Philosophy | University College London | |
1997 | Master of Science | Waseda University | |
1995 | Bachelor of Science | Waseda University |