BIOGRAPHY

Tomoya Kawasaki is a Lecturer at the Department of Systems Innovation, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Japan. He received his Doctor of Engineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan in 2012. He has been a researcher at the Japan Maritime Center, an Assistant Professor at Nihon University, and an Assistant Professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, and has been in his current position since August 2020. He specializes in logistics systems engineering, supply chain management, and logistics data analysis. He received best paper awards from the Japan Logistics Society (2014, 2020), the Japan Society of Logistics and Shipping Economics (2014) and the T-LOG (2018, 2020).

Associate Professor (The University of Tokyo)
Department of Systems Innovation, School of Engineering, Tokyo, Japan.
April 2024 to date

Lecturer (The University of Tokyo)
Department of Systems Innovation, School of Engineering, Tokyo, Japan.
August 2020 to March 2024

Assistant Professor (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Department of Transdisciplinary Science and Engineering, School of Environment and Society, Tokyo, Japan.
April 2016 to July 2020

Assistant Professor (Nihon University)
Department of Transportation Systems Engineering, College of Science and Technology, Chiba, Japan.
April 2013 to March 2016

Researcher (Japan Maritime Center)
Planning and Research Department, Tokyo, Japan.
October 2011 to March 2013

Visiting Position

Visiting Researcher (Waterfront Vitalization and Environment Research Foundation, WAVE)
December 2018 to 2020

Visiting Researcher (Japan Maritime Center)
April 2013 to March 2020

HONOURS/AWARDS

1. Best paper award of Japan Society of Logistics and Shipping Economics
   “Evaluation of Japanese port policies through network analysis” (Awarded with Mr. Mr. Yoshihiro Mr. Yoshihiro Sugimura),  Transport Policy
   October 2023,
2. Emerald Literati Awards
   Outstanding Reviewer Award in Maritime Business Review, Emerald, December 2021
3. Best paper award of Journal of Japan Society of Civil Engineers, Ser. D3 (Infrastructure Planning and Management)
   “Logistics Facility Location Choice Analysis based on Supply Chain in Tokyo Metropolitan Area (Awarded with Dr. Kumiko Nakamichi, Prof. Shinya Hanaoka, Ms. Tianzi Lu, Dr. Yasukatsu Hagino, Mr. Takeshi Kenmochi, Dr. Hideki Oka), Committee of Infrastructure Planning and Management,
   April 2021, Tokyo, Japan.
4. Best paper award of Japan Logistics Society
   “An empirical analysis on effect of incentive-subsidies on the Japanese local container port” (Awarded with Mr. Toshihiro Watanabe and Prof. Takuma Matsuda), Japan Society of Logistics,
   September 2020, Japan
5. OCDI Award for Young Researchers
   “Bi-level optimization model for designing Point to Point or Hub and Spoke maritime network: Case study on East Asian ports (Awarded with Mr. Hoshi Tagawa and Prof. Shinya Hanaoka), 7th International Conference on Transport and Logistics (T-LOG),
   September 2018, Dalian, China.
6. OCDI Takeuchi Yoshio Logistics Award
   “Optimization approach for modelling intra-port coopetition” (Awarded with Dr. Chathumi Ayanthi Kavirathna and Prof. Shinya Hanaoka), 7th International Conference on Transport and Logistics (T-LOG)
   September 2018, Dalian, China.
7. Best Research in Maritime & Logistics
   “Competitive dynamics among cross regional hub ports: Generalised cost approach” (Awarded with Dr. Chathumi Ayanthi Kavirathna and Prof. Shinya Hanaoka), 2nd International Conference on Research for Transport & Logistics Industry (R4TLI)
   July 2017, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
8. Young researcher award of Tokyo Institute of Technology
   “Micro econometric analysis for consolidation and privatization of ports in proximity”
   January 2017, Tokyo, Japan
9. Best paper award of Japan Society of Logistics and Shipping Economics
   “An Essay on the Bulk Cargo Containerization -The Ferrous Scrap Import by Transpacific Westbound-” (Awarded with Dr. Takuma Matsuda), Japan Society of Logistics and Shipping Economics
   October 2014, Osaka, Japan
10. Best paper award of Japan Logistics Society
    “An Impact Duration of Economic Indicator on Container Movement” (Awarded with Dr. Takuma Matsuda), Japan Society of Logistics
    September 2014, Chiba, Japan
11. Young researcher award of Japan Logistics Society
    “The valuation of shipment time variability in Greater Mekong Subregion” (Paper published in Transport Policy), Japan Logistics Society
    March, 2014, Tokyo, Japan

RESEARCH AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION

1. Supply chain management
2. Maritime transport and port planning
3. International logistics
4. Logistics sensing

RESEARCH SOCIETY

1. International Association of Maritime Economists (IAME)
2. Eastern Asia Society for Transport Studies (EASTS)
3. Japan Society of Civil Engineers (JSCE)
4. Japan Logistics Society (JLS)
5. Japan Society of Logistics and Shipping Economics (JSLSE)
6. Japan Society of Transportation Economics (JSTE)
7. Society for Serviceology
8. Association for Planning and Transportation Studies
9. Scheduling Society of Japan