Career Profile

My primary background is in financial administration and financial law. Another background is in natural sciences. I learned about finance in Japan and internationally through my work as a government official. I also acquired skills in natural science and data analysis through graduate school and corporate work.

Career

Visiting Researcher

2019 - Present
Alan Turing Institute, London, the U.K.

I am engaged in applying statistics to analyze physical phenomena and evaluate its uncertainty.

Chief

2018 - 2019
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, Japan

I worked as a data scientist as a member of the team. The team handled analyzing data provided by client companies, creating presentation materials, and making proposals to clients based on the results of the analysis.

  • Power Point, Python, R

Deputiy Director

2017 - 2017
Financial Services Agency, the Government of Japan, Tokyo, Japan

As a staff of the Inspection Bureau, our team was responsible for the deconstruction of the Inspection Bureau and the abolition of the Financial Inspection Manual. I also served concurrently in the Supervisory Bureau, where I negotiated and coordinated between the Inspection Bureau and the Supervisory Bureau; I managed more than 10 subordinates as I served in all three concurrent positions.

  • Inspection Manual
  • Management

Section Chief

2015 - 2016
Financial Services Agency, the Government of Japan, Tokyo, Japan

As a staff of the financial markets division in Planning and Coordination Bureau, I worked on a project to revitalize the Japanese corporate bond market and conducted research on high-frequency traders. Our team conducted meetings and surveys in New York, Chicago, Washington D.C., Berkeley, etc. for market research.

  • Financial Instruments and Exchange Act

Section Chief

2014 - 2015
Financial Services Agency, the Government of Japan, Tokyo, Japan

As a person in charge of Japanese financial law in the financial markets division in Planning and Coordination Bureau, I worked with the international department and negotiated with foreign authorities to introduce globally consistent regulations. Other areas I was involved in included the licensing of foreign clearing houses, new regulations for repo transactions, and the establishment of a securities exchange in Myanmar.

  • Financial Instruments and Exchange Act
  • Companies Act
  • Civil Code
  • Bankruptcy Act
  • The Corporate Reorganization Act

Section Chief

2013 - 2014
Financial Services Agency, the Government of Japan, Tokyo, Japan

As a staff of the financial system stabilization planning office in Planning and Coordination Bureau, I was engaged in revising laws and regulations to implement an orderly resolution of financial institutions.

  • Deposit Insurance Act
  • Companies Act

Section Chief

2012 - 2013
Financial Services Agency, the Government of Japan, Tokyo, Japan

As a member of a team in the securities business division in the Supervisory Bureau, I was involved in a wide range of management tasks, such as assigning staff for the cases, coordinating schedules and so on, as the entire department was involved in emergency cases.

  • Financial Instruments and Exchange Act

Analyst

2011 - 2012
Financial Services Agency, the Government of Japan, Tokyo, Japan

As a staff of the supervisory planning office in Supervisory Bureau, I was engaged in financial analysis for major financial institutions in Japan. I also worked on the Financial Sector Assessment Program by IMF.

  • Accounting

Research Assistant

2008 - 2010
The Institute for Solid State Physics of the University of Tokyo, Chiba, Japan

I was engaged in analysis of electron-lattice interactions by simulation.

  • Quantum Monte Carlo simulation
  • C++

Education

PhD in Statistical Science

2019 - Present
University College London

Analysis of Disturbances Caused by Acoustic Waves Induced by Tsunamis

  • INLA-SPDE, Gaussian Process, History Matching, Functional Data Analysis
  • Python, R

MSc in Statistical Science

2016 - 2018
University College London

Analysis of satellite-captured earthquake precursor signals

  • Functional Data Analysis
  • Python, R, C++

MSc in Applied Physics

2008 - 2011
The University of Tokyo

Development of algorithms to calculate entanglement entropy.

  • Quantum Monte Carlo method
  • Quantum mechanics
  • C++

BSc in Applied Physics

2004 - 2008
The University of Tokyo

Experiments in semiconductor thin layer fabrication. Verification of luminescence properties of thin layers of GaSb.

  • Solid-State physics
  • Band theory

Publications

preparing

  • Robust uncertainty quantification of the volume of tsunami ionospheric holes for the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake: towards low-cost satellite-based tsunami warning systems
  • Ryuichi Kanai, Masashi Kamogawa, Toshiyasu Nagao, Alan Smith, Serge Guillas
    Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 22, 849–868, (2022)

    Presentation

    The Uncertainty Quantification: Recent Advances in
    the Mathematics of Information

    June 2022
    Cambridge, the U.K.

    The 5th International Workshop of China Seismo-Electromagnetic
    Satellite mission

    October 2021
    Beijing, China

    The 30th the International Tsunami Symposium

    July 2021
    Miyagi, Japan

    The 12th International Conference of the ERCIM WG on
    Computational and Methodological Statistics

    December 2019
    London, the U.K.

    The 6th conference of Earthquake Prediction Society
    of Japan (*Invited Speaker)

    December 2019
    Tokyo, Japan

    CTR Wilson General Assemblies

    November 2019
    Bath, the U.K.

    The 4th International Workshop of China Seismo-Electromagnetic
    Satellite mission (*Invited Speaker)

    October 2019
    Changsha, China.

    ISSP Workshop ISSP-CMSI-Nano Project Joint Workshop

    January 2011
    Chiba Japan

    FIRST program, Quantum Information Processing Project
    General Meeting

    December 2010
    Shizuoka, Japan

    The Autumn Meeting of the Physical Society of Japan 2010

    September 2010
    Osaka, Japan

    CMSI workshop Research Group 1 Basic Science of Novel
    Quantum States / New Materials

    April 2010
    Chiba, Japan

    CREST 2010 international symposium on physics of
    quantum technology

    April 2010
    Tokyo Japan

    The 65th Annual Meeting of the Physical Society of Japan

    March 2010
    Okayama, Japan

    Next-Generation Integrated Nanoscience Simulation Software
    4th Open Symposium

    March 2010
    Chiba, Japan

    Next generation workshop of condensed matter physics
    "New material and Energy"

    March 2010
    Chiba, Japan

    ISSP Workshop Supercomputer Joint Use Activity Report 2009

    December 2009
    Chiba, Japan.

    The Autumn Meeting of the Physical Society of Japan 2009   

    September 2009
    Kumamoto, Japan.

    The 64th Annual Meeting of the Physical Society of Japan

    March 2009
    Tokyo, Japan.

    Next-Generation Integrated Nanoscience Simulation Software
    3rd Open Symposium

    March 2009
    Chiba, Japan.

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