Tomoki NAKAYA, BSc, MSc, Ph.D.

Professor

Department of Geography, Ritsumeikan University
56-1 Tojiin-kita-machi, Kita-ku Kyoto, 603-8577, Japan

Research Centre for Disaster Mitigation of Urban Cultural Heritage, Ritsumeikan University
58 Komatsubara-kitamachi, Kita-ku, Kyoto 603-8341, Japan

Email: nakayalt.ritsumei.ac.jp

Last update: 8 November 2012


Research Themes

Mathematical, Statistical & Computational Modelling in Human Geography

Spatial statistics (spatially varying parameter modelling, spatial regression modelling, local stat., MAUP, clustering & geodemographics, ets.)

Geographical mathematical modelling (spatial interaction modelling, urban/landuse modelling, zoning, etc.)

Geovisualisation/Geocomputation (census mapping, disease/crime mapping, 3D/4D GIS, space-time cube visualisation, cartogram, etc.)

Analytical Health Geography

Geographic modelling of epidemics (geographic analysis based on theoretical epidemiology)

Spatial epidemiology (disease mapping, spatial regression, cluster detection, etc.)

Geographical social epidemiology (measuring geographic inequality in health, social capital and geography, etc.)

Health GIS (GIS supporting healthy & safe community activities)


Academic Training

Department of Geography, Faculty of Science, Tokyo Metropolitan University, 1988-97

Ph.D. Thesis: An Information Statistical Approach to the Modifiable Areal Unit Problem in Map Analysis: Searching for the Informative Geographical Aggregation of an Incidence Rate Map. (March 1997)

MSc Thesis: A Theoretical Analysis of Spatial Aggregation in the Huff Model: with Special Reference to Bias of Distance Decay Parameter. (March 1994)

BSc Thesis: A Spatio-temporal Model for an Influenza Epidemic. (March 1992)

( All the dissertation works were supervised by Prof. Dr. Yoshio SUGIURA .)


Academic Appointment

Full-time position

April 2012 - Present
Professor in Department of Geography at Ritsumeikan University

April 2000 - March 2012
Associate Professor in Department of Geography at Ritsumeikan University

April 1997 - March 2000
Assistant Professor in Department of Geography at Ritsumeikan University

Classes Taught (selection): 'introduction to quantitative geography', 'introduction to geographical information science', 'seminars of geographical information course (supervising dissertations for 3rd and 4th year students)', 'fundamentals of computer usage in human geography (Excel and ArcGIS usage for social area analysis)', 'advanced GIS practice (landuse analysis and 3D visualisation by ArcGIS)', 'advanced topics in geographical information sciences and practices', 'statistics for geographers (SPSS)', 'advanced topics in quantitative geography (ArcGIS & GeoDa)', 'Computer Drawing and Cartography (Photoshop & Illustrator and ArcGIS)', 'Remote Sensing (Idrisi Kilimanjaro)'

Visiting position (no teaching duty)

July 2009 – September 2009
Visiting Fellow in Department of Geography, University of Sheffield

April 2009 – July 2009
Visiting Fellow in the National Centre for Geocomputation at the National University of Ireland Maynooth

April 2003 - September 2004
Visiting Fellow in Geography at University of Newcastle upon Tyne

October 2002 - March 2003
Distinguished Visiting Fellow in School of Geography at University of Leeds

Part-time position

April 2000 - March 2001, April 2006 - March 2007
Part-time Lecturer in Department of Geography at Kyoto University for the lecture of 'GIS and Spatial Analysis'

September 2004, 2005, 2006
Part-time Lecturer in Faculty of Letters at Hiroshima University for the lecture of 'GIS and spatial analysis' (1 week crush course)

April 2005 - September 2005
Part-time Lecturer in Faculty of Letters at Osaka University for the lecture of 'GIS and spatial analysis'

April 2000 - March 2002, April 2004 - March 2005
Part-time Lecturer in Liberal Arts College at Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine for the lecture of 'Human Geography and Medical Geography'

April 1996 - March 1997
Teaching Assistant of 'practices for Human Geography' in Department of Geography at Tokyo Metropolitan University


Awards, Grants and Scholarships
(Research project grants that I am not the reader are not shown)

July 2012 Award
SAG (Special Achievement in GIS) Award 2012 Esri International User Conference (with Yano, K., Kawasumi, T., Muranaka, A., Hanaoka, K., Kirimura, T., Seto, T., Tsukamoto, A., Matsumoto, A. and Akaishi, N.)

June 2012 Award
Second prize of map gallery contest at the 8th GIS Community Forum in Japan (with Toshikazu Seto, Satoshi Nagao, Keiji Yano and Naoko Itaya)

April 2012 - Present Research Grant
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science for health inequalities associated with deprivation indices at the neighbourhood level

March 2010 Award
Excelent paper of the 68th Annual Meeting of Japanese Society of Public Health (with Tomoya Hanibuchi and Chiyoe Murata)

April 2008 - March 2010 Research Grant
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science for empirical analysis on geographical inequalities of health by micro datasets

April 2005 - March 2008 Research Grant
Grant-in-Aid for Encouragement of Young Scientists from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science for non-parametric spatio-temporal modelling of infectious disease alarming

April 2003 -March 2005 Research Grant
Grant-in-Aid for Encouragement of Young Scientists from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science for developing predictable epidemic model of HIV/AIDS epidemic in Japan

March 2002 Award
Digital Silk Roads PRIZE (poster and demonstrations category) (with Keiji Yano and others)

April 2001- March 2003 Research Grant
Grant-in-Aid for Encouragement of Young Scientists from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science for developing local modelling methodologies in spatial interaction modelling

March 2002 Award
The Encouragement Prize for Young Researchers of the Association of Japanese Geographers in 2001 (with Sano, H.)

April 1998 - March 2000 Research Grant
Grant-in-Aid for Encouragement of Young Scientists from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science for spatial aggregation problems in spatial interaction modelling

April 1997 - March 1998 Research Grant
The Japan Science Society for ethe information statistical analysis for detecting regional mortality changes in the Tokyo metropolitan area

April 1994 - March 1997 Scholarship
The Japan Securities Scholarship Foundation for the Ph.D. thesis work


Academic Activities

Membership of Academic Society

The Association of American Geographers
The Association of Japanese Geographers
Human Geography Society of Japan
The City Planning Institute of Japan
The Geographic Information System Association of Japan
The Japanese Society for AIDS
The Japanese Society of Public Health
Regional Science Association International, Biritish and Irish Section

Boards and Committees

Editorial Board Member of Human Geography (Human Geography Society of Japan), 1997-1998, 2000-2002, 2003-2005, 2007-2009. 2011-present
Special Interest Group committee member of the Geographic Information Systems Association in Japan (Chiri Joho Shisutemu Gakkai), 2004-2006
General committee member of the Geographic Information Systems Association in Japan (Chiri Joho Shisutemu Gakkai), 2009-2011
Program committee, The 8th International Conference on Computers in Urban Planning and Urban Management, 2002-2003.
Scientific committee member of the 17th European Colloquium on Quantitative and Theoretical Geography (ECQTG2011), Harokopio University of Athens
Co-organizer of the space-time integration in Geography and GIScience, symposium of 2011 AAG annual meeting in Seattle
Program committee member of The International Symposium on Spatio-Temporal Analysis and Data Mining (STDM) 2011, University College of London
Program committee member of GeoComputation 2011, University College of London
Program committee member of GIScience 2012, Ohio State University.

Journal Referees

Annals of the Association of American Geographers
Australian & New Zealand Journal of Statistics
Environment and Planning A
Environment and Planning B
Geographical Analysis
GeoJournal
International Journal of Geographic Information Systems
International Journal of Health Geographics
Journal of Geographical Systems

PLoS ONE
Social Science and Medicine

Statistics in Medicine
Urban Studies
Geographical Review of Japan (JE)
Journal of Geography (JE)
Japanese Journal of Human Geography (Human Geography/Jinbun-Chiri) (JE)
Japanese Journal of Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing (JE)
Papers on City Planning (JE)

Theory and Applications of GIS (JE)
and others.

(JE: journal papers are usually written in Japanese with English abstract)