Resume - Takemasa Miyoshi

Curriculum Vitae

2005 Ph.D. in Meteorology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA (Dissertation PDF)
2004 M.S. in Meteorology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA (Scholarly Paper PDF)
2000 B.S. in Physics, Faculty of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

2012-present Team Leader, Data Assimilation Research Team, RIKEN, Japan
2011-present Assistant Professor, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland
2009-2011 Research Assistant Professor, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland
2009 Visiting Assistant Researcher, University of California, Los Angeles, California
2005-2008 Scientific Official, Numerical Prediction Division, Japan Meteorological Agency
2003-2005 Graduate Student, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland
2002-2003 Scientific Official, Numerical Prediction Division, Japan Meteorological Agency
2000-2002 Technical Official, Planning Division, Japan Meteorological Agency

2008 Yamamoto-Syono Award, Meteorological Society of Japan
2006 Accepted participant of the ESF-JSPS Frontier Science Conference Series for Young Researchers, Nynashamn, Sweden (official URL)(Japanese report)
2003-2005 Japanese Government Long-term Fellowship
1996 First Japanese Delegate of National Youth Science Camp, WV, USA

2009-2012 (3 yrs) "Data Assimilation and Predictability Studies for Improving Tropical Cyclone Intensity Forecasts", funded by NOPP

2011-2014 (4 yrs) Co-PI, "Mars Data Assimilation and Reanalysis", PI: Professor Eugenia Kalnay, funded by NASA
2009-2012 (3 yrs) Co-PI, "Multimodel Ensemble Reanalysis System (MERS)", PI: Professor Kayo Ide, funded by NOAA

2002 Certified Weather Forecaster, Japanese Government Certification
2001 Certified Software Design and Development Engineer, Japanese Government Certification
1999 First-class National Government Employee with specialty in Physics, National Personnel Authority, the Government of Japan

October 2012 Invited Presentation, International Symposium on Data Assimilation, German Weather Service (DWD), Offenbach, Germany.
July 2011 Invited Presentation, Session J-M02: Data assimilation and ensemble forecasting for weather and climate, IUGG 2011, Melbourne, Australia.
August 2010 Invited Presentation, Session IN04: Inverse problems in geosciences, The Meeting of the Americas of the American Geophysical Union, Foz do Iguacu, Brazil. (also invited to "Session A06: Data assimilation techniques" and "Session OS20: Operational ocean prediction and data assimilation")
May 2010 Invited Presentation, The 5th international workshop on ensemble Kalman filter for model updating, Bergen, Norway.
November 2008 Invited Award Lecture, Biannual Meeting of the Meteorological Society of Japan, Sendai, Japan.
November 2008 Invited Presentation, WMO/WWRP/THORPEX Workshop on 4D-VAR and ensemble Kalman filter inter-comparisons, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
May 2008 Invited Presentation, Session J245: Advances in inversion techniques, Japan Geosciences Union Meeting 2008, Makuhari, Japan.
January 2008 Invited Presentation, Third WMO/WCRP International Conference on Reanalysis, Tokyo, Japan.

2013-2016 Member of the Annual Meeting Oversight Committee, Americal Meteorological Society
2008-2009 Member of the International Scientific Organizing Committe, The 5th WMO Symposium on Data Assimilation (WMODA5)
2006-present Member of the Meeting Planning Committee, Meteorological Society of Japan
February 2003 Member of the Local Organizing Committee, The International Workshop on NWP Models for Heavy Precipitation in Asia and Pacific Areas, JMA, Tokyo, Japan

February 2013 Convener, AICS International Workshop on Data Assimilation, Kobe, Japan
May 2012 Co-convener, 5th EnKF Workshop, Albany, NY
March 2009 Co-convener, Atsushi Numaguchi 3rd memorial symposium on interdisciplinary research of meteorology and climate, Kashiwa, Japan
November 2008 Co-convener, Data assimilation and predictability, Special session, Biannuarl meeting of the Meteorological Society of Japan, Sendai, Japan

Spring 2012-Fall 2012 Chair of the Seminar Committee (a.k.a. Seminar Coordinator)
Fall 2011-Spring 2012 Co-Chair of the Computer Committee

September 2010 Session chair at the First International Workshop on Nonhydrostatic Numerical Models
April 2010 Session chair at the 4th EnKF Workshop
April 2008 Session chair at the 3rd Workshop on Ensemble-based Data Assimilation
January 2008 Session chair at the 3rd WMO/WCRP International Conference on Reanalysis
2005-2007 Seminar organizer of the Numerical Prediction Division (NPD) Colloquium, JMA
November 2005 Session chair at the biannual meeting of the Meteorological Society of Japan