Director of AI and New Frontier Group
Research Topics & Areas of Expertise
- Artificial intelligence (AI) for sustainability decision support
- Machine learning for disaster forecasting, risk assessment, and resilience planning
- Geographic information system (GIS) spatial analysis
- Remote-sensing data analytics for environmental monitoring and disaster-impact assessment
- Natural language processing (NLP) for causal mapping, knowledge extraction, and systems analysis
- Network analysis, systems thinking, and integrated systems modelling
- AI-enabled knowledge systems, interactive analytics, and decision-support tools
- Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) indicators, interlinkages, and integrated assessment
- Climate-policy assessment, green-economy transitions, and environmental governance
- Energy-system scenario modelling and low-carbon transition pathways
- Water–food–energy nexus analysis and integrated resource planning
- Climate change, disaster risk reduction, and urban resilience
- Data integration, environmental information systems, and policy-relevant sustainability science
Education
i) Ph.D in Environmental Studies, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University, Japan;
ii) Master Degree in Environmental Science, College of Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China;
iii) Bachelor Degree in Applied Mathematics, Department of Applied Mathematics and Physics, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, China
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Research Report
This report presents findings from a project jointly implemented by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES). The project reviewed 50 Voluntary National Reviews (VNRs) on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) from 36 Asia and the Pacific countries from 2016 to 2021. In this...
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Training or Learning Material
This lecture was given to the training programme on “Teaching Sustainability and Localising the Sustainable Development Goals in the Hindu Kush Himalaya”, 13 December 2022, online. The training programme was organized by the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), Himalayan University Consortium (HUC), and Potsdam...
Conference Paper
TT12 Session, 2022 International Forum for Sustainable Asia and the Pacific (ISAP)
In 2022, UNEP conducted a regional review of the Voluntary National Reviews (VNR) in Asia-Pacific covering 36 countries and 50 VNRs from an environmental perspective. For indicators, we developed a framework to review the environment-related indicators and data that were used in the VNRs. We found that t he overall coverage of the environment...
Conference Proceeding
JSPS-ICSSR Seminar on Understanding and Addressing Systemic Risks Behind the Socio-economic Impacts of COVID-19 in Japan and India: Developing a Roadmap for a Resilient and Sustainable Future
Starting as a health emergency, the COVID-19 pandemic has evolved into a global crisis impacting health, the economy, society, the environment and institutions. The crisis reveals that building a resilient and sustainable society is important and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) is urgently needed. It is imperative to ensure that...
Conference Proceeding
AAAI 2022 Fall Symposium on the Role of AI in Responding to Climate Challenges
Climate action, Goal 13 of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), cuts across almost all SDGs. Achieving climate goals can reinforce the achievements in many other goals, but at the same time climate mitigation and adaptation measures may generate trade-offs, such as levelling the cost of energy and transitioning away from fossil fuels...
Conference Paper
TIFAC-IIASA International Conference on Systems Analysis for Enabling Integrated Policy Making
The UN 2030 Agenda charts out 17 interlinked Sustainable Development Goals that require a systems approach to their implementation. However, such a systems approach is new and challenging due to the broad coverage of social, economic and environmental dimensions and complex relations among 169 targets. There is a big knowledge gap about how the...
Peer-reviewed Article
In Sustainability Science
The sustainable development goals (SDGs) were adopted by the United Nations on 25th September 2015 and are now mid-way to the target implementation deadline of 2030. A set of 17 goals with 169 targets are being used to guide all UN Member States in implementing the challenging 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. From the beginning, it was...
Non Peer-reviewed Article
In Energy Review: The Energy and Climate Observer
Development of renewable energy (RE) systems provides a practical solution to achieve a transition towards a low-carbon society. By replacing fossil fuel-based technologies and enabling access to clean energy through decentralised energy systems, RE can generate multiple synergies with achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), particularly...
Commissioned Report
本報告書は環境省委託業務のうち、以下4項目について取りまとめたものである。 ①各国のNDC更新及び長期戦略策定並びに各都市の長期低炭素発展戦略策定を見据えたAIMモデルを活用したシナリオ分析支援 ②シナリオ分析を活用した途上国等に対する脱炭素に向けた制度構築支援 ③途上国における研究者・政策担当等のネットワーク会合の開催 ④業務成果の広報活動
Submission to Policy Process
持続可能な開発目標（ SDGs ）が定めた 2030 年という期限を前に、世界はすでに「決定的な 10 年」とも言うべき期間に突入している。これは、持続可能な未来の実現に向けた残り時間がなくなりつつあることを示している。 2022 年のハイレベル政治フォーラム（ HLPF ）、アジア太平洋持続可能な開発フォーラム（ APFSD ）および関連フォーラムでは、 SDGs の 5 つの目標（ SDG 4 、 5 、 14 、 15 、 17 ）についての詳細な検討が予定されている。「すべての人の持続可能な未来を実現するためのプラネタリー・バウンダリーを超えない暮らし」を実現するために、これらの目標の達成に向けて、 IGES 、政策立案者、企業、市民社会、その他の関係者が取るべき方策を...
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