This is Bandai Toshiyuki’s personal homepage. 日本語のページはこちら.
Current Position
Research Engineer
NTT Space Environmental Energy Lab
Resilient Environmental Adaptation Research Project, Extreme Weather Future Forecast Group
Biography (CV is available from here)
- 2025-present: Research Engineer, NTT Space Environment Energy Lab
- 2023-2025: 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
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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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