Toshiyuki Bandai

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Current Position

Postdoctoral Scholar
GO-Energy Geoscience Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Supervisor: Dr. Carl Steefel

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

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!
08/30/2022: The latest work on the application of physics-informed neural networks to soil moisture dynamics is published on HESS. The code is available from here.

Google Scholar is very smart. Please also see the CV above.

Other notes can be found in here.

Unsaturated water flow in arid regions
Hysteresis phenomena
Extracting soil hydraulic properties by inverse modeling
Large-scale simulation of water and chemical transport in watersheds
Neural networks (not just for easy use; there must be some interesting properties we can exploit!)