Present Position: Professor, Faculty of Agriculture, Tottori University, JAPAN
Education:
2001 Ph.D. Agriculture, Graduate School, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan
1998 Master of Agriculture, Agricultural Engineering, Graduate School, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan
1996 Bachelor of Agriculture, Agricultural Engineering, Faculty of Agriculture, Osaka Prefecture University
Main Fields of Specialization:
On-farm water management, Flood mitigation, Micro hydropower
Professional Development/Affiliations:
Japanese Society of Irrigation, Drainage and Rural Engineering
Japanese Association of ICID (JN-CID)
International Society of Paddy and Water Environment Engineering
Japanese Society of Hydrology and Water Resources
Japanese Society of Sand Dune Research
Japanese Association for Arid Land Studies
Employment Record (from present to past)
2006 - Present Faculty of Agriculture, Tottori University
2003 - 2006 National Institute for Rural Engineering, Japan
2001 - 2003 International Water Management Institute
Research Studies
- Study on water level control to mitigate floods damage at irrigation ponds 2016-present
- Development emergency discharge device and early warning system for irrigation ponds 2014-2017
- Assessment of Hydropower potential using farm pond and its usage in Tottori, Japan 2010- 2014
- Irrigation performance assessment in different countries such as China, Kazakhstan, and Egypt (2008 - at present)
- Soil salinization in the check-dam farmland in Loess Plateau, China (2008- 2016)
- Analyzing irrigation engineering and hydrological part under the project on Global Water Circle Change on Food Production and its Countermeasure Scenario 2003-2006
- Assessing performance benefit of the Dual Canal Irrigation System in the Left Bank of Uda Walawe, Sri Lanka. Monitoring and Evaluation of Tank irrigation systems, 2002-2003
- Analyzing irrigation engineering and hydrological part under the project on “Sustaining land and water productivity under rice-wheat consortium in Pakistan and India”, 2001-2003
- Analyzing Irrigation water management under the rice-upland crop rotation agriculture in the lower Syr-darya river basin, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, 2000-2001
- On-farm water management in the left bank of the Kzylorda region, Kazakhstan, 1997-1999
Awards:
- Awards of Excellent Poster -8th International Conference of Environment and Rural Development (ICERD) the title of the paper “Comparison of Land and Water Improvement Projects and the Management System between Japan and Nigeria”, 2016 (co-authored Dayyabu, M. Z., and Yoshioka, Y.)
- Awards of Excellent Paper -7th International Conference of Environment and Rural Development (ICERD) the title of the paper “Development of an Emergency Discharging Device and an Early Warning System for Floods at Irrigation Ponds”, 2015 (co-authored Fukuda, Y. and Yoshioka, Y.)
- Awards of Excellent Paper -6th International Conference of Environment and Rural Development (ICERD) the title of the paper “Potential and Applications of Micro Hydroelectricity Using Irrigation Ponds”, 2015
- Poster Award of Annual Conference of the Japanese Society of Hydrology and Water Resources (JSHWS) the title of the poster “Simulation of Inundation Processes in Low-lying Floodplains by a 2D-FEM Model”, pp.154-155 (co-authored Pham T. Hai and Masumoto T., 2005)
- UNU Akino Memorial Fellow Scholarship, 2000
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