Academic Staff and Fellows

TAKABATAKE Tomoyuki: Associate Professor Dr. Eng; Department/Civil and Environmental Engineering　
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Graduate school/Environmental Engineering

We integrate various research methods, including experiments, fluid analysis, AI, AR/VR, field surveys, and questionnaire surveys, to conduct studies aimed at ensuring safety from water-related disasters while creating a rich and attractive human society in harmony with nature and promoting the effective utilization of water resources in the future.

Research Area	Hydraulic Engineering, River Engineering, Coastal Engineering, Disaster Prevention Engineering, Urban Engineering
Teaching (Undergraduate Course)	Hydraulics I, Exercises in Hydraulics I, Continuum dynamics, Coastal Engineering, Disaster Prevention Engineering, KINDAI Seminar 1, KINDAI Seminar 2, Seminar for Bachelor Thesis, Bachelor Thesis, Practices of Elementary Surveying
Teaching (Graduate Course)	Advanced Research on Environmental Engineering, Advanced Coastal and Port Engineering, Advanced Coastal Disaster Prevention, Ph.D. Study in Coastal and Port Engineering, Ph.D. Exercise in Global Environmental Engineering
Research Interests	Development of Hydraulic Engineering Simulators, Development of Pedestrian Flow Simulators, Investigation of Mechanisms of Water-Related Disasters, Elucidation of Soil-Water Interaction Mechanisms, Analysis of Disaster Awareness and Evacuation Behavior, Application of Artificial Intelligence to Hydraulic Engineering, Development of Next-Generation Educational Tools for Hydraulic Engineering, Exploration of Space Civil Engineering
Selected Publications	Optimizing Evacuation Paths Using Agent-based Evacuation Simulations and Reinforcement Learning., International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 117, 105173, 2025. Influence of Road Blockage on Tsunami Evacuation: A Comparative Study of Three Different Coastal Cities in Japan., Internationl Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 68, 102684, 2022. Three-Dimensional Physical Modeling of Tsunamis Generated by Partially Submerged Landslides., Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 127(1), e2021JC017826, 2022.
Research and Achievements	08_takabatake_tomoyuki.pdf
Affiliated Academic Societies	Japan Society of Civil Engineers(JSCE), Japanese Association for Coastal Zone Studies(JACZS), Japan Society for Natural Disaster Science(JSNDS)
External Activity	2023～　Coastal Engineering Journal, Associate Editor 2023～　Journal of JSCE, Editor 2020～　Journal of Coastal and Hydraulic Structures, Associate Editor
Education (Undergraduate Course)	Waseda University（Bachelor, Master, Doctor）
Title of Thesis, Institute, Date	A Study for Improvement of Tsunami Inundation Simulation and Evacuation Simulation, Waseda University, September of 2017
Biography	Researcher working at the Taisei Technology Center（2012-2016） Visiting Researcher at Ottawa University（2017-2018） Assistant Professor at Waseda University（2018-2020） Associate Professor at Kindai University（2021-）
Awards	MEXT Young Scientists' Prize. Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) of Japan (2021) Coastal Engineering Journal Award (Annual Best Paper Award) (2021) Yamada Kazuie Award. The Maeda Engineering Foundation (2019) Best Paper Award for Young Researcher of 2018. Journal of Japan Society of Civil Engineers, Ser. B3 (Ocean Engineering) (2018) Outstanding Presentation Award for Young Researcher of 2015. Annual Conference of Japan Society of Civil Engineers (2015) Outstanding Presentation Award for Young Researcher of 2014. Annual Conference of Japan Society of Civil Engineers (2014) Best Paper Award of 2014. Journal of Japan Society of Civil Engineers, Ser. B2 (Coastal Engineering) (2014) Best Paper Award for Young Researcher of 2013. Report of Taisei Technology Center (2014) Outstanding Presentation Award for Young Researcher of 2013. Annual Conference of Japan Society of Civil Engineers (2013)
Message to Students	Live in the moment!
Books Recommended to Students	Chroniques d'un monde disparu, 1905-1906

Coastal Engineering Laboratory

Office Location	3rd floor of Building No.7, Higashi Osaka Campus, Kindai University
E-mail	takabatake（at）civileng.kindai.ac.jp Note that this e-mail address has replaced the "@" with "(at)" to prevent spam. When e-mailing, replace the "(at)" with "@".
Laboratory URL	https://www.civileng.kindai.ac.jp/laboratory/takabatake/