Yoshimitsu Tajima, Ph.D.
Professor, the University of Tokyo,
School of Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering,
Coastal Engineering Laboratory

Hongo 7-3-1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
113-8656
phone:+81-3-5841-6111
Fax: +81-3-5841-8503
e-mail: yoshitaji@coastal.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Personal Statement
Dr. Tajima has experience of coastal engineering both in academic research and practical engineering jobs since 1995. As a
research engineer at the Institute of Penta-Ocean Construction, he was involved in various coastal projects such as designs andenvironmental assessment of the newly extended runway of Tokyo International Airport. After moving back to the University ofTokyo in 2005, he effectively integrated practical experiences and academic background of nearshore hydrodynamics to extend
his research focus to various aspects of coastal vulnerabilities, e.g., storm surge disasters due to Hurricane Katrina and Cyclone
Sidr, tsunami deposits in Sri Lanka, locally concentrated coastal damages due to multi-specter stormy waves, and interactive
wave-current field and dynamic erosions around the Tenryu river mouth. Besides various numerical approaches, he has strength
in experiences of laboratory and field studies. As a key member of JSCE field survey team, for example, he carried out disastersurveys of Katrina, Sidr, Haiyan, Pam, Meranti and 2011 Tohoku earthquake tsunami. His recent study is further extended tosatellite-based nearshore monitoring system for evaluations of large-scale coastal vulnerability under collaborative research
project with JAXA, Japanese space agency.
Education
Doctor of Philosophy in Environmental Fluid Mechanics
Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, June 2004
Master of Science
Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, June 2001
Bachelor of Engineering
Dept. of Civil Engineering, The University of Tokyo, March 1996
Professional Experience
Researcher, Penta-Ocean Construction, Co., Ltd, Apr.1996-Aug.1999, Feb.2004-Aug.2005
Research Assistant, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sep.2001-Jan.2004
Assistant professor, the University of Tokyo, Sep.2005-Mar.2007
Associate professor, the University of Tokyo, Apr.2007-Mar. 2013
Professor, the University of Tokyo, Apr.2013-present
Selected Publications (171 peer reviewed full papers as of March, 2022)
Tajima, Y., & O. S. Madsen：Modeling near-shore waves, surface rollers, and undertow velocity profiles, J. of Waterway, Port,Coast. and Ocean Eng., 132(6), pp. 429-438， 2006. doi: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-950X(2006)132:6(429).
Shimozono, T., S. Sato, A. Okayasu, Y. Tajima, M. F. Hermann, H. Liu & T. Takagawa: Propagation and inundation characteristicsof the 2011 Tohoku tsunami on the central Sanriku coast, Coast. Eng. J., 54(1), 2012.
Tajima, Y., T. Yasuda, B.M. Pacheco, E.C. Cruz, et al., Initial report of JSCE-PICE Joint Survey on storm surge disaster causedby typhoon Haiyan, Coast. Eng. J., 56, 1450006, doi:10.1142/S0578563414500065, 2014.
Shimozono, T., Tajima, Y., Kennedy, A.B., Nobuoka, H., Sasaki, J. & S. Sato, Combined infragravity wave and sea-swell runup
over fringing reefs by super typhoon Haiyan, J. of Geo. Res. Oceans, 120, doi:10.1002/2015JC010760, 2015.
Tajima, Y., Gunasekara, K.H., Shimozono, T. & E.C. Cruz, Study on locally varying characteristics induced by super typhoon
Haiyan. Part I: Dynamic behavior of storm surge and waves around San Pedro Bay, Coast. Eng. J., 58(1), 1640002,
doi:10.1142/S0578563416400027, 2016.
Tajima, Y., Shimozono, T., Gunasekara, K.H., & E.C. Cruz, Study on locally varying characteristics induced by super typhoon
Haiyan. Part II: Deformation of storm waves on the beach with fringing reef along the east coast of Eastern Samar, Coast. Eng. J.,
58(1), 1640003, doi:10.1142/S0578563416400039, 2016.
Hussain, M.A. & Y. Tajima: Numerical investigation of surge-tide interactions in the bay of Bengal along the Bangladesh coast,
Natural Hazards, vol.86, issue2, pp.669-694, doi: 10.1007/s11069-016-2711-4, 2016.
Tajima, Y., Lapidez, J.P., Camelo, J., Saito, M., Matsuba, Y., Shimozono, T., Bautista, D., Turiano, M. & E. Cruz: Post-Disaster
Survey of Storm Surge and Waves along the Coast of Batanes, the Philippines, caused by Super Typhoon Meranti / Ferdie,Coastal Engineering Journal, DOI: 10.1142/S0578563417500097, 2017.
Tajima, Y., Gunasekara, K. & H. T. Nguyen: Satellite-based monitoring of contrasting characteristics of suspended sediment
discharged from the Red and the Ma river systems along the northern coast of Vietnam, Int. J. of Sediment Research,doi:10.1016/j.ijsrc.2018.08.004, 2018.
Tajima, Y., Takagawa, T., Sato, S. & S. Takewaka: Collapse and recovery process of the sand spit at the Tenryu River mouth on
the Pacific Coast of Japan, Coastal Engineering Journal, DOI: 10.1080/21664250.2018.1546264.
Tajima, Y., Wu, L., Fuse, T., Shimozono, T. & S. Sato: Study on shoreline monitoring system based on satellite SAR imagery,Coastal Engineering Journal, 2019, doi: 10.1080/21664250.2019.1619252.
Tajima, Y., Wu, L. & K. Watanabe: Development of a shoreline detection method using an Artificial Neural Network based onsatellite SAR imagery, Remote Sensing 13(12) 2254-2254, 2021, doi:10.3390/rs13122254