Dr. Shunichi Koshimura is a Professor at International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku University. His research focuses on "Real-time Disaster Science" that aims to assess social impacts of natural disasters by fusion of numerical modeling, earth observation and geo-informatics with HPCI (High Performance Computing Infrastructure). Koshimura is also a Co-Founder and CTO of RTi-cast, university-based technology start-up to offer real-time tsunami inundation damage forecast services to government organizations and commercial clients. RTi-cast is officially licensed by JMA to provide tsunami forecast services.