Current Students and Researchers
Doctoral Course Students (Ph.D.)
Name: Chen Xinyu
Country: China
Academic Background: M. Sc. Environmental Science, Hokkaido University, Japan.
Research Topic: Remote Sensing of Deforestation and Forest Degradation.
Name: Md. Alamgir Hossen Bhuiyan
Country: Bangladesh
Academic Background: M. Sc. in Geography and Environment, Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Research Topic: Urban ecosystem monitoring and role of geospatial data and vertical building height.
Name: Santosh Pandey
Country: India
Academic Background: MBA
Research Topic: Agrobusiness in India and environmental governance
Name: Rajat
Country: India
Academic Background: M. Tech. Geoinformatics
Research Topic: Forest biomass estimation using SAR data
Name: Stephanus Albertus Louw
Country: South Africa
Academic Background: M.Sc. Environmental Science, Hokkaido University, B. Sc. Honors in Mathematics, Stellenbosch University, South Africa.
Research Topic: Landfill monitoring by remote sensing.
Name: Shivaang Sinha
Country: India
Academic Background: M.A. in International Affairs, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore.
Research Topic: Climate Change Impacts on Transnational River Basin: Redefining Water Institutions and Cooperation in the Face of Fragility.
Name: Sudip Pandey
Country: Nepal
Academic Background: M.Sc. in Public Health and Disaster Engineering from Pokhara University, Nepal
Research Topic: Probable Maximum Precipitation (PMP) in Nepal
Name: Hrushikesh Galagali
Country: India
Academic Background: MSc. Environmental Science, Fergusson College, Pune University
Research Topic: Human Wildlife Conflict
Name: Bateswar Das
Country: India
Academic Background: MSc Disaster Management, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, BSc Geography, Jadavpur University
Research Topic: Spatial Analysis of Urban Extreme Heat Sensitivity and Impact on Multi-layered vulnerabilities in Kolkata Metropolitan Area for Sustainable Development.
Master Course Students (M.Sc.)
Name: Carla Juliana Monroy Rozo
Country: Colombia
Academic Background: Civil Enginner. Specialization in Water and Environmental Health.
Research topic: Water Quality Monitoring with Satellite Data.
Name: Peng Liuyi
Country: China
Academic Background: B.Eng. Computer Science and Technology, Nanchang University, China.
Research Topic: Segment-Based Remote Sensing Classification Using Self-Supervised Learning Techniques
Name: Zhou Ziqi
Country: China
Academic Background:
Name: Aishwarya
Country: India
Academic Background: MSc-Environmental Science, Pune University
Research Topic:
Name: Su Yicheng
Country: China
Academic Background: Huazhong Agriculture University
Research Topic: Predicting the distribution of reef-associated fish in the South and East China Seas based on DDPM
Research and Exchange Students
NAME: Espie Praca
COUNTRY: Philippines
Academic Background: B. Sc. Agriculture major in Entomology
Research Topic: Correlation of Climate Change and Anthropogenic Activities to the Population of Pine Beetles
Name: Jamella M. de Castro
Country: Philippines
Academic Background: MS Environmental Science Major in Environmental Biology University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB)
Research Topic: Assessing Urban Landscape Factors Controlling Seasonal Land Surface Temperatures: Urban Function Zones in Baguio City, Philippines
Visiting Researchers
Name: Dr. Ashwani Kumar
Country: India
Academic Background: Ph.D., University of Tokyo, Japan
Associate Professor, SLIET, India
Research Area: Computer vision and image processing
Name: Dr. Priyanka Singh
Country: India
Academic Background: Ph. D.
Research Area: Remote Sensing of Vegetation and Ecosystem
Name: Dr. Raveena Raj
Country: India
Academic Background: Ph.D., Hokkaido University, .M. Sc. Environmental Science, Banaras Hindu University, India.
Research Area: Environmental assessment of gully erosion susceptibility of Indian Ravines with the help of Geospatial data and machine learning
Name: Dr. Deepak Singh
Country: India
Academic Background: Ph.D., Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.
Research Area: Environmental science-policy
Name: Dr. Asma Kouser
Country: India
Academic Background: Ph.D., Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.
Research Area: Innovations and Sustainable Economic Systems
Name: Yin Min Thant
Country: Myanmar
Academic Background: M.Sc ( Environmental Science, Policy and Management- MESPOM)
Research Topic: Interrelation Between Land Use Land Cover Change and Climate in Mekong River Basin
Past Post Doctoral Researchers
Name: Dr. Nirmal Kumar
Country: India
Academic Background: Remote Sensing and GIS applications in natural resource management
Name: Dr. Xiao Juan
Country: China
Academic Background: M. Sc. & Ph.D. Environmental Science, Hokkaido University, Japan.
Research Topic: Integrating UAV and high-resolution satellite data to improve agriculture practices.
Past Students
Name: Dang Guansan
Country: China
Academic Background: B. Tech.
Research Topic: Geospatial data and
surface water quality
Name: Stanley Anak Suab
Country: Sarawak, Malaysia
Academic Background: M. Sc. Environmental Science, Hokkaido University, Japan.
Research Topic: Multi-sensors Remote Sensing & Geospatial Technique for Sustainable Tropical Forest & Plantations Management .
Name: Hitesh Supe
Country: India
Academic Background: M. Sc. Environmental Science, Hokkaido University, Japan.
Research Topic: Solar Energy
Name: Shruti Ganbote
Country: India
Academic Background: B. Dental Surgery
Name: Akari Fujiwaka
Country: Japan
Academic Background:
Research Topic:
Name: Vidhulekha Tiwari
Country: India
Academic Background: Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB)
Name: Vatsal Arya
Country: India
Academic Background: B. Tech. Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM)
Name: Aniket Raut
Country: India
Academic Background: B. Eng. Mechanical, Mumbai University, India.
Research Topic: Geospatial data and air pollution monitoring
Name: Nabin Bhattarai
Country: Nepal
Academic Background: M Sc. Forestry, Tribhuvan University, Nepal.
Ph D title: Studies on Addressing Challenges and Enhancing Community Engagement in REDD+ Implementation in Nepal and India
Name: Zheng Shilei
Country: China
Academic Background: B.A. in Environmental Science, University of California, Irvine, United States of America.
Research Topic: Urban microclimate and urban expansion.
Name: Yoshito Shimizu
Country: Japan
Academic Background: B. Sc. Agriculture
Research Topic: UAVs applications in forestry
Name: Ma Peilun
Country: China
Academic Background: B. Sc. Environmental Science, Hebei University of Science and Technology, China.
Research Topic: UAVs applications in precision agriculture and forestry
Name: Xiao Zezhong
Country: China
Academic Background: B. Sc.
Research Topic: Remote sensing and UAV data image fusion
Name: Schneider Pascal Daniel
Country: Switzerland
Academic Background: M. Sc.
Biogeochemistry & Pollutant Dynamics, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
Name: Fu Jinjin
Country: China
Research Topic: Applications of UAVs in the Field of Environmental Monitoring
Name: Mandvikar Kaushik Vilas
Country : India
Academic Background: B. Tech. in Mechanical Engineering, Manipal University, Jaipur, India.
Research Topic: Mapping urban flooding using Remote Sensing & Geospatial Technology.
Name: Kanchanit Kamolrattanakul
Country: Thailand
Academic Background: M.S. Environmental Science, Kasetsart University, Thailand.
Name: Deha Agus Umarhadi
Country: Indonesia
Academic Background: B. Sc. Geographic Information Science, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia.
Research Topic: Remote Sensing for Tropical Peatlands Monitoring
Name: Dr. Nguyen Hong Duc
Country: Vietnam
Academic Background: Ph.D., Hokkaido University, Master of Sustainability, University of Adelaide, Australia.
Research Area: System Dynamic Approach and GIS for the Urban and Peri-urban Water Resources Management.
Name: Md. Mustafizur Rahman
Country: Bangladesh
Academic Background: M. Sc. Urban and Regional Planning, Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh.,
M. Sc. Environmental Science, Hokkaido University, Japan.
Research Topic: Spatial growth of city and its impact on urban climate.
Name: Apisai Rinamalo Vakacegu
Country: Fiji
Academic Background: B. Sc. Hons. International Tropical Forestry, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Malaysia.
Research Topic: Remote Sensing applications in sustainable forest management.
Name: Nujaira Hafeza
Country: Bangladesh
Academic Background: B. A. Hons. English Literature, Stamford University, Bangladesh.,
M. Sc. Environmental Science, Hokkaido University, Japan.
Research Topic: Assessment of aquaculture ponds using satellite images and GIS.
Name: Molekoa Mmasabata Dolly
Country: South Africa
Academic Background: B. Sc. Env. & Resource Studies, University of Limpopo, S. A.,
M. Sc. Environmental Science, Hokkaido University, Japan.
Research Topic: Assessment of spatio-temporal variations in Doorndraai dam water quality for sustainable water resource management
Name: Sudha Suresh
Country: India
Academic Background: B.Sc. Agriculture, Tamilnadu Agriculture University, India, M. Sc. Environmental Science, Hokkaido University, Japan.
Research Topic: Climate change impacts on agriculture in Coimbatore Tamilnadu, India.
Name: Dr. Manish Ramaiah
Country: India
Academic Background: M. Sc. (IPADS), University of Tokyo, Japan.,
Ph.D. Environmental Science, Hokkaido University, Japan.
Research Topic: Green Spaces, Smart Cities and Sustainable Water Management.
Name: Saurabh Tripathi
Country: India
Academic Background: B.Sc. Mechanical Eng., M. Sc. Environmental Science, Hokkaido University, Japan.
Research Topic: Energy-Urbanization-Population Nexus
Name: Xiang Qianyi
Country: China
Academic Background: Bachelor of Electrical Engineering
Research Topic: Temperature Increasing Impact on Residents' Health in the Context of Urban Heat Island Effects
Name: Ma GengChen
Country: China
Academic Background: Macau University of Science and Technology (undergraduate)
Research Topic: Analysis of the Diversity and Spatial Patterns of Ancient Trees in Tokyo
Past Internship Students
Name: Aryan Kumar
Country: India
Academic Background: B.Tech. Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM)
Name: Jay Jain
Country: India
Academic Background: B.Tech. Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM)
Name: Shinie Aggarwal
Country: India
Academic Background: Computer science and Engineering undergraduate
List of Ph. D. and M.Sc. thesis supervised
Past Students at Hokkaido University, Japan
A) Ph. D. Students supervised [Total:5]
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Stanley Anak Suab (Malaysia) "Multi-sensor remote sensing techniques for sustainable management of tropical forest and plantations in Northern Borneo" (2021-2024) (DX Scholarship)
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Xiao Juan (China) "Enhancing crop monitoring using unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) images and deep learning" (2020-2023)
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Raveena Raj (India) "Environmental Monitoring of Ravenous land of Central India using Geospatial data" (2019 - 2022)
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Ngyuen Hong Duc (Vietnam) "Applications of Robust decision making (RDM) framework in assessing policy measures on urban water management" (2019 - 2022) (JICA fellowship)
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Manish Ramaiah (India) "Addressing Climate Change Adversities Through Sustainable Urban Green Spaces Using Treated Wastewater" (2018 - 2021)
B) Ph. D. Student co-supervised: [Total:3]
1. Huynh Vuong Thu Minh (Vietnam) "Effects of multi-dyke protection systems on water quality and land use change in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta" (2016-2019) (JICA fellowship)
2. Huynh Thi Cam Hong (Vietnam) "Role of mangrove ecosystem in the sustainability of communities in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta: a case study in Soc Trang and Bac Lieu provinces" (2016-2020) (JICA fellowship)
3. Nabin Bhattarai (Nepal) "Studies on Addressing Challenges and Enhancing Community Engagement in REDD+ Implementation in Nepal and India" (2021-2024) (JSPS Ronpaku)
C) Master’s students supervised [Total:17]
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Akari Fujiwaka (Japan) "Machine learning-based drift ice type classification using geospatial data: a case study in Abashiri" (September-2023)
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Dang Guansan (China) "Dynamic monitoring of eutrophication based on sentinal-2 data in the Barato River, Hokkaido, Japan " (September-2023)
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Shruti Ganbote (India) Assessment of epidemiological relevance of dengue with environmental variables using geospatial data: A case study of Kolhapur district, India (September-2023)
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Aniket Raut (India) "Assessment of nitrogen oxides concentration in the non-attainment areas of Maharashtra, India" (April2021-March2023)
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Stephan Albertus Louw (South-Africa) "An investigation of drone applications to support small-scale agriculture" (2020-2022) (MEXT-fellowship)
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Mandikar Kaushik (India) "Assessment of heat risk in Indian cities using geospatial and socio-ecological data" (2020-2022)
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Fu Jinjin (China) "Tree species classification based on multi-source geospatial data and machine learning" (2020-2022)
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Apisai Rinamalo Vakacegu (Fiji) "Land Use/Land Cover Change Analysis and Prediction of Carbon Sequestration Using InVEST Model in Viti Levu Island, Fiji " (2020-2022) (JICA-SDGs fellowship)
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Chen Xinyu (China) "Geospatial data for assessment of forest damage due to typhoon in Eastern Hokkaido, Japan " (2020-2022)
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Deha Agus Umarhadi (Indonesia) "Monitoring tropical peatland subsidence using time-series InSAR technique in Bengkalis Island, Indonesia" (2020-2022) (MEXT-fellowship)
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Nujaira Hafeza (Bangladesh) "Spatio-temporal monitoring of aquaculture area using Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 data in Satkhira, Bangladesh" (2019-2021)
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Stanley Anak Suab (Malaysia) "Tropical forest plantations canopy height modelling using multi-sensor remote sensing technique" (2019-2021) (JICA-Innovative Asia fellowship)
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Hitesh Supe (India) "Detection of soiling on photovoltaic solar farms using multi-spectral remote sensing in arid regions" (2019-2021)
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Molekoa Mmasabata Dolly (South Africa) "Assessment of spatio-temporal variations in Doorndraai dam water quality for sustainable water resource management" (2019-2021) (JICA-ABE Initiative fellowship)
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Md. Mustafizur Rahman (Bangladesh) "Assessment of spatial development and its impact on urban microclimate: a case study on Dhaka Metropolitan Area (DMA), Bangladesh" (2019-2021)
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Sudha Suresh (India) "Climate change, Land-use/Land-cover change and incidence of infectious diseases in Coimbatore, INDIA (1985-2015)" (2018 – 2020)
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Saurabh Tripathi (India) "Energy industry induced urbanization: A study of energy industry in India with energy-urbanization-population nexus” (2017 – 2019) (MEXT-fellowship)
D) Student exchange programme: [Total:3]
1. Gu Ying (China) Chengdu University of Technology, China (2020)
2. Schneider Pascal Daniel (Switzerland) ETH Zurich, Switzerland (2021)
3. Kanchanit Kamolrattanakul (Thailand), Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand (2022)
E) Ph. D. thesis examination committee member: [Total:7]
1. Adiya Saruulzaya (Mangolia) (2014 – 2017) “Thermokarst lake dynamics in the continuous and isolated permafrost zones, Mangolia”
2. Amit Kumar Batar (India) (2014 – 2017) “Studies on land use/land cover change and forest fragmentation with the implications for landslide occurrence in the Garhwal Himalaya, India.
3. Arafan Traore (Guinea) Ph D thesis committee member (2015 – 2018) “Studies on urban growth in Conakry, Guinea, using geo-spatial data
4. Pranshu Pranjal (India) Ph D thesis examiner of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Dhanbad (2022) “An Assessment of Groundwater Depletion and Land Subsidence in North-West India by Space-borne Geophysical, SAR Interferometry, and Ground-based Observations”
5. Vinayak Nitin Bhanage (India) thesis examiner of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay (2022) “Impacts of Future Urbanization on Urban Microclimate over Mumbai Metropolitan Region, India”
6. Summy Dhiman (India) thesis examiner of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), India (2023) "Transitions in agricultural pest control technological regime in Punjab, India".
7. Jyoti Prabha (India) thesis examiner of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), India (2023) "Development of Sustainable Biofuels in India: A Responsible Innovation Perspective".
F) M. Sc. thesis examination committee member: [Total:10]
1. Sun Yujie (China) (March, 2018) “Tourism impacts on society and land use/land cover changes in Sagarmatha (Mount Everest) National Park, Nepal”
2. Shinxin Mo (China) (March, 2019) "InSAR analysis of changing microtopography around thermokarst lakes in southern fringe of Siberian permafrost, Mongolia"
3. Josef Tuunasoli Pisi (Samoa) (March, 2019) "Assessing the impacts of invasive alien tree species in lowland forest ecosystem in order to improve restoration strategies in Samoa"
4. Jone Ravuci Sassen (Fiji) (March, 2019) "The assessment of human impacts on the distribution patterns of mangroves: a comparative study between the Rewa and Ba delta, Fiji"
5. Song Cui (China) (March, 2020) "Distribution and area changes of glacial lakes in Nepal by Sentinel-2"
6. John Mawenda (Malawi) (March, 2020) "Urban Land Use/Land Cover Changes in Blantyre City, Southern Malawi during the Democratic Era (1994–2018)"
7. Wang Ziheng (China) (March, 2021) “Study on an assessment of water quality of the urban rivers in the case of Suzhou, China and Sapporo, Japan”
8. Liu Wenbo (China) (March, 2021) “Effects of Cd-contaminated soil on growth of radish”
9. Delos Santos Kriselda Anna (Philippines) (March, 2021) “Assessment of mangrove regeneration in abandoned aquaculture ponds using multi-temporal satellite imagery”
10. Deokyonng Han (South Korea) (March, 2022) “Effect of sea surface temperature on precipitation variability in East Asia induced by the boreal summer intra-seasonal oscillation”
Past Students at the United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Studies of Sustainability (UNU-IAS) Japan from 2012-2016
A) Ph. D. Student supervised [Total:1]
1. Akinola Komolafe (Nigeria) (2013-2016) Unified loss functions for pre-flood disaster damage modeling
B) M. Sc. Students supervised [Total:2]
1. Kenichi Tsusaka (Philippines) (2013-2015) An assessment of carbon stock in the Muyong forest management system and the feasibility of REDD-plus in the Nagacadan terrace cluster, Ifuago
2. Hector David Briceno Sanchez (Honduras) (2013-2015) Corporate responses to climate change: comparative analysis of the US, the UK, and Japan using CDP disclosure forms
C) M. Sc. thesis committee member [Total:5]
1. John Boakye-Danquah (Ghana) Master thesis Examiner (2011-2012) The impact of agriculture land use change and farm management practices on soil organic carbon sequestration potential : the case of savannah regions of Northern Ghana
2. Nisile Cosmas (Nigeria) Master thesis Examiner (2012-2013) Sustainable livelihoods on small islands : the case of Likoma Island, Malawi
3. Ruby Mensah (Ghana) Master thesis Examiner (2013-2015) Assessment of land use change effect on plant biodiversity in a savannah agro-ecological zone : case study in the Tolon District, northern Ghana
4. Aditi Kodke (India) Master thesis Examiner (2014-2016) Landscape measures for flood adaptation and water resource management : case study of Malwathu Oya River Basin, Sri Lanka
5. Mario Alipio Soriano Jr. (Philippines) Master thesis Examiner (2014 – 2016) Evaluation of the impact of climate and land use change on the hydrologic response and stability of the Ifugao rice terraces