Credentials

I completed my doctoral degree at the University of Queensland, Australia, in 2018. I accepted a postdoctoral position at Sam Houston State University in Texas, the US, in 2019. I was the chair and developed the program on Disaster Risk and Resilience at Singapore University of Social Sciences in 2020. I have then relocated to Kyushu, Japan, where I have been teaching online for TUJ since 2021. Currently, I also serve as a guest speaker for the Institute of Sustainability Studies in Ireland and collaborate on digital design projects with IADE|UNIDCOM in Portugal. I am affiliated to the Climate Social Science Network. I also work as a consultant for the East-West Center leadership programs in Honolulu, Hawai'i.

Before starting my doctoral degree in Australia, I completed a Master's in Public Administration at the University of Hawaii at Manoa (UHM) with a certificate in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance at the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at UHM. I was also a research assistant at Umeå University in Sweden (see the beauty of color change here) and a visiting research at Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. I am an alumnus of Asia Pacific Leadership Program at the East-West Center, and a scholarship recipient of the Worldwide Uchinanchu Business Association.

Finally, I am passionate about entrepreneurship, leadership, and creative media. I have been advising local businesses and communities in Japan on how to make their presence felt in the digital world to inform and attract customers. My work with grassroots communities have drawn over fifty million views on Google. I was also the first graduate student at UQ to be awarded with the Career Development Scholarship, which allowed me to engage with innovators and creators in Australia and launch a startup on artificial intelligence powered by natural language processing to sort and classify online reviews. This enterprise was supported by UQ Ventures and CSIRO.