Dr Tomoya Shibayama is a Professor of Coastal Engineering at Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan. He is one of the top leaders of tsunami and storm surge disasters and their mitigation studies in Japan. He uses hydraulic laboratory experiments, field surveys and numerical simulations for the study. He served as team leaders of survey teams for all major tsunami and storm surge events in these fifteen years. He is the winner of 2019 Hamaguchi International Award For Enhancement of Tsunami/Coastal Disaster Resilience.