AGENDA
Venue: International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku University
DAY 1: 15 FEBRUARY 2024
| Room: | Main hall of the IRIDeS building (1F) | |||
| Emcee: | Madhavi Pundit | |||
| 9:30-10:00
AM | Opening
session Toshiya Ueki, Vice President, Tohoku University Albert Park, Chief Economist, Asian Development Bank Shinichi Kuriyama, Director, International Research Institute of Disaster Science Christina Schönleber, Chief Strategy Officer, Association of Pacific Rim Universities | |||
| 10:00-10:20 AM | Coffee break and group photo | |||
| 10:20-11:00 AM | Keynote Talk: “Enabling
Resilient Cyber-Human-Infrastructure: Emerging Technologies” by Nalini Venkatasubramanian, Professor, University of California, Irvine | |||
| 11:00-11:40
AM | Keynote
Talk: “Beyond
Volume: Refining Big Data for Disaster Resilience” by David Lallemant, Assistant Professor, Nanyang Technological University | |||
| 11:40-1:00 PM | Lunch Break | |||
| 1:00-2:30 PM | Room 1 Chair: Christina Schönleber | Room 2 Chair: Belinda Hewitt | Room 3 Chair: Takako Izumi | Room 4 Chair: Edward Charles Anderson |
| Demand, impacts and the consequences of mis-designed crop insurance program: Evidence from administrative data of nationwide program in Thailand Boontida Sa-ngimnet Discussant: Miloud Lacheheb | Designing a nationwide crop insurance program in Thailand using big data and mobile technology Jose Velarde Morales and Surasak Choedpasuporn Discussant: W B Roshen Piumal Sachindra Fernando | A Model Analysis Approach for Reassessment of the Cyclone Shelter Plan Focusing both on Accessibility and Accommodation Capacity for Local Communities - Case Study of Khulna, Bangladesh Mohammad Ismail Hossain and Md Jubaer Arefin Discussant: Tomoko Sugiura | Leveraging
Earth Observation Data and Products to create a Comprehensive Tsunami Loss
Estimation Platform – Impacts in a Changing Climate Ronald T. Eguchi Discussant: Pritha Ghosh | |
| Impact of Tropical Cyclones on Fishing Activity
in the Philippines Miloud Lacheheb Discussant: Erwin Knippenber | Global
Economic Consequences of the Physical Climate Impacts on Agriculture and
Energy W B Roshen Piumal Sachindra Fernando Discussant: Md Nahid Ferdous | Modeling
suitability of evacuation shelter for extreme event-induced multi-hazard
scenarios using Bayesian Optimized CNN Somnath Bera Discussant: Noriel Christopher C. Tiglao | Modeling
dynamics of landslide hazard and exposed population under climate change
scenario using deep learning Pritha Ghosh Discussant: Yifan Yang | |
| Nowcasting the impact of the 2022 floods in
Pakistan on household welfare Erwin Knippenberg Discussant: Chonnakan Rittinon | Rapid
assessment of landslide induced vegetation damage using Disaster Vegetation
Damage Index (DVDI) Md Nahid Ferdous Discussant: Elodie Blanc | Analyzing
Poverty Incidence and Disaster Vulnerability of Informal Settlements in
Baguio City, Philippines using Spatial Microsimulation Approach Noriel Christopher C. Tiglao Discussant: Keiko Saito | Small-Grid
Urban Flood Prediction Model Using Twitter Data and Population GPS Data - An
example of the 2019 Nagano City Flood Yifan Yang Discussant: Ronald T. Eguchi | |
| 2:30-3:00 PM | Coffee break | |||
| 3:00-4:30 PM | Room 1 Chair: John Gibson | Room 2 Chair: Madhavi Pundit | Room 3 Chair: Ilan Noy | Room 4 Chair: Abdul Abiad |
| Machine-learning Approaches to Enhance Tsunami Damage Modeling for Coastal Roads: Lessons from the 2011 Great East Japan Event Anna Rita Scorzini Discussant: Bhuwan Awasthi | The Impact of Natural Disasters on Light-based Geospatial Income Inequality Jaqueson K. Galimberti Discussant: J.C. Albert C Peralta I | Quantifying Traffic Responses under the Highest-Level Warning and Extreme Rainstorm in Beijing Ziying Zhou and Xiaoyan Liu Discussant: Jonas Gunkel | Framing of Disasters in Digital Media using NLP: A Case Study on Flood Management Hannah Bailon Discussant: Ivan Harris Tanyag | |
| Predictive Analytics for Road Safety
Enhancement on Mugling-Narayanghat Road Section Bhuwan Awasthi Discussant: Nattapong Puttanapong | The Project CCHAIN Dataset: Linking Village-Level Data on Climatic Impact-Drivers, Socioeconomic Vulnerability, and Environmental Conditions to Health Impacts across 12 Philippine Cities J.C. Albert C Peralta I Discussant: Paul Jasper | Machine Learning for Disaster Mobility Modeling: Methods and Data Jonas Gunkel Discussant: Makoto Okumura | Agent-Based
Modelling of Systemic Risk in Disaster Response in the Philippines Using
Emotional Contagion Analysis Ivan Harris Tanyag Discussant: Qi Zhao | |
| An Integrated Framework for Satellite-based Flood Mapping and Socioeconomic Risk Analysis: A Case of Thailand Nattapong Puttanapong Discussant: Anna Rita Scorzini | Temperature variability as a driver of poverty in low- and middle-income countries Paul Jasper and Ida Brzezinska Discussant: Jaqueson K. Galimberti | Quantification
of urban mobility, based on big data of population locations Makoto Okumura Discussant: Ziying Zho | Factors determining risk perception among university students
in the face of an infectious disease outbreak Qi Zhao Discussant: Hannah Bailon | |
DAY 2: 16 FEBRUARY 2024
| Room: | Main hall of the IRIDeS building (1F) | |||
| Emcee: | Madhavi Pundit | |||
| 9:30-10:10 AM | Keynote Talk: “The
outline of the national project ‘SIP’ to tackle with natural disasters” by Koichi Kusunoki, Professor, University of Tokyo | |||
| 10:10-10:30 AM | Coffee break | |||
| 10:30-11:30 AM | Panel Discussion: Big data and disasters: Linkages between research, practice and policy | |||
| Moderator: Abdul Abiad, Director, Asian Development Bank Edward Charles Anderson, Senior Technology and Resilience Specialist, World Bank Belinda Hewitt, Senior Disaster Risk Management Specialist, Asian Development Bank Ilan Noy, Chair in the Economics of Disasters and Climate Change, Victoria University of Wellington | ||||
| 11:30-1:00 PM | Lunch break | |||
| 1:00-2:30 PM | Room 1 Chair and Commentator: Christina Schönleber | Room 2 Chair and Commentator: Belinda Hewitt | Room 3 Chair: Abdul Abiad | Room 4 Chair: Shunichi Koshimura |
| Are disaster impact estimates distorted by errors in popular night-time lights data? John Gibson Discussant:Renzo Roel Tan | The Relation between Entrepreneurs’ Social Identity and Venture Success in Times of Crisis Syrine Adala Discussant: Joshua Panganiban | Monitoring social media dynamics to predict peak electricity demand for crisis mitigation Isabella Nunes Grieser Discussant: Zhaowen Wang | Leveraging Big Data for Enhanced Disaster Response and Management: A Case Study of BRAC's Initiatives in Bangladesh Naimul Islam Discussant: Sahara Sedhain | |
| Twitter-Derived Measures of Economy and Uncertainty for the Philippines Renzo Roel Tan and Benedict Ryan Tiu Discussant: Jun Rentschler | Towards High-resolution Simulation of Post-Disaster Economies Utilizing Firm-level Data Joshua Panganiban Discussant: Yoshihisa Maruyama | Navigating Drought: Analyzing Panama Canal Transit Disruptions Using AIS Big Data Zhaowen Wang Discussant: Zhenyu Yang | Explainable Impact-Based Forecasting for Tropical Cyclones Sahara Sedhain Discussant: Yasemin Palta | |
| Urbanization in a changing climate: Evidence from 30 years of global satellite imagery Jun Rentschler Discussant: John Gibson | Numerical simulation for leak detection based on water pressure observation by smart meters Yoshihisa Maruyama Discussant: Syrine Adala | Exploring the Relationship Between Snow Depth and Population Mobility Using Mobile GPS and Weather Data Zhenyu Yang Discussant: Isabella Nunes Grieser | Using AI to Collect Information on Disaster Resilience of Public Financial Management Systems Yasemin Palta Discussant: Naimul Islam | |
| 2:30-2:45 PM | Coffee break | |||
| 2:45-4:45 PM | Room 1 Chair: Takako Izumi | Room 2 Chair: Albert Park | Room 3 Chair and Commentator: Esperanza Martinez | Room 4 Chair: Ilan Noy |
| Monitoring Post-Disaster Reconstruction to Support Evaluation of Early Recovery Frameworks Sabine Chandradewi Loos Discussant: Hiroyuki Miura | Disaster Digital Twin - A Mixed Initiative of Human and Machine for Resilience Shunichi Koshimura Discussant: Eva Brucherseifer | Spatial Analysis of Weather Shocks Vulnerability in Children’s Nutrition: A Comparative Study of Three Ecological Regions in Nepal Prakriti Shakya Discussant: Amanda Guimbeau | From Aspiration to Relocation – Assessing the Impacts of Natural Disasters on Migration using Big Data Lennart Reiners Discussant: Patricia Anne Delmendo | |
| Remote sensing-based approach for estimating insured typhoon-induced economic losses from building damage Hiroyuki Miura Discussant: Shimpei Nakano | A Data Classification Towards the Applicability of the Digital Twin Conceptual Framework in Disaster Management Eva Brucherseifer Discussant: Raymond Freth A. Lagria | Ocean Salinity, Early-Life Health, and Adaptation Amanda Guimbeau Discussant: Martino Pelli | Using Big Data to Improve Prediction and Management of Climate Induced Migration and Displacement in Asia and the Pacific Patricia Anne Delmendo and Bradley Mellicker Discussant: Md Sariful Islam | |
| Inspection of Multi-scale Analysis for Building Damage Extraction by Tsunami Shimpei Nakano Discussant: Md Jubaer Arefin | The Development of CrisisPulse: Text-based Extraction System for Microblogs Raymond Freth A. Lagria Discussant: Masayuki Okugawa | Storms, Early Education and Human Capital Martino Pelli Discussant: Prakriti Shakya | Walking on the Edge: Bangladesh's Erosion Realities, Geophysical Vulnerabilities, and Disproportionate Impacts on Different Demographics and Socioeconomic Groups Md Sariful Islam Discussant: Sabuj Kumar Mandal | |
| Impacts of disasters in conflict settings: Top-down and bottom-up estimations Elodie Blanc Discussant: Sabine Chandradewi Loos | Plant Disaster Prevention Through the Fusion of Robot Technology and Digital Twin Masayuki Okugawa Discussant: Shunichi Koshimura | Data Driven Perspectives on Disaster Induced Migration - Social Network Nexus among Rural Agricultural Households in India Sabuj Kumar Mandal Discussant: Lennart Reiners | ||
DAY 3: 17 FEBRUARY 2024
| 8:45-11:30 AM | Disaster site visit Ruins of the Great East Earthquake: Sendai Arahama Elementary School https://sendai-resilience.jp/en/efforts/government/information/preservation.html | |||
Legend:
Room 1: Seminar room of the IRIDeS building (1F)
Room 2: Seminar room B of the IRIDeS building (2F)
Room 3: Seminar room 5 of the Aobayama commons (2F)
Room 4: Seminar room 6 of the Aobayama commons (2F)
Note: The Aobayama commons is just in front of the IRIDeS building.