This is Bandai Toshiyuki’s personal homepage. 日本語のページはこちら.
Current Position
Postdoctoral Scholar
Earth and Environmental Scieces Area at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Supervisor: Dr. Carl Steefel
Biography (CV is available from here)
- 2023-present: Postdoctoral Scholar, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- 2018-2022: Ph.D., Environmental Systems, University of California, Merced, Soil Physics Laboratory
- 2022: Summer intern for the Next Generation Workforce – Ingenuity Internship program, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- 2017-2018: Research Fellow DC1, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan
- 2015-2017: M.S., Biological and Environmental Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Japan, Soil Physics and Soil Hydrology Laboratory
- 2016: Junior Visiting Research Fellow, UNSW Sydney, Australia
- 2011-2015: B.S., Department of Agriculture, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Announcements
- 7/3/2024: A new paper on integrating neural networks into a physcs-based model (Richards’ equation) is published in Water Resources Research. The link is here.
- 6/27/2024: I gave a guest lecture at Water Summer School hosted by Texas A&M. The recording is avaialble form here.
- 6/24/2024: A paper on reactive transport paper is published in PNAS. The link is here I contributed to the software development for unsaturated flow.
- 5/29/2024: I am attending Hydro ML symposium at PNNL!
- 3/29/2024: Chapter 4 of my PhD dissertation is published in Journal of Hydrology. The link is here.
- 12/15/2023: I will talk about our latest work on differentiable modeling at AGU. The abstract is avaialbe from here.
- 12/11/2023: I will attend AGU Fall meeting in San Francisco. Contact me if you want to talk about research!
- 08/12/2023: My doctoral dissertation is finally electonically available on ProQuest.
- 07/11/2023: A perspective paper on differentiable modeling in Geosciences is publisehd on Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. I mainly contributed to adjoint methods in the paper.
- 05/22/2023: I am attending HydroML symposium at Berkeley!
- 03/03/2023: My Master’s study on laboratory experiment of thermal non-equilibrium in porous media was accepted by Journal of Groundwater Hydrology. The link is here.
- 02/01/2023: I started a postdoc position at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory!
- 01/23/2023: I gave a resaerch and outreach talk at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology. Thank Dr. Hirotaka Saito for hosting the seminar!
- 12/05/2022: I defended my dissertation on World Soil Day!
Publications
Google Scholar is very smart. Please also see the CV above.
Other notes
Other notes can be found in here.
Research Interests
- Extracting soil hydraulic properties from soil moisture data
- Large scale inverse modeling using differentiable modeling
- Unsaturated water flow in arid regions
- Reactive transport model
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