• Professional Career

2019: Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA)
2019-2020: Postdoctoral Researcher, Universidad de Ingeniería y Tecnología (Lima, Peru)
2021-2024: Researcher, International Centre for Water Hazard and Risk Management (ICHARM), Public Works Research Institute (PWRI)
2024- : Senior Researcher, International Centre for Water Hazard and Risk Management (ICHARM), Public Works Research Institute (PWRI)
2024- : Associate Professor (joint-appointment), National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS)

• Selected publications

Serrano, J. S., Herrera, E. C., & Naito, K. (2024). Hydraulic Analysis of the Marikina River Flood During Typhoon Vamco using Numerical Modelling. PIAHS, 386, 121-126.

Herrera, E. C., & Naito, K. (2024). Hydrodynamic Investigation of Laguna Lake, Philippines for Water Security and Flood Risk Management of Metro Manila. PIAHS, 386, 95-100.

Moodie, A. ..., Naito, K., ... (2022). SedEdu: software organizing sediment- related educational modules. Journal of Open Source Education, 5(56), 129, doi: 10.21105/jose.00129.

Ruben, L. D., Naito, K., Gutierrez, R. R., Szupiany, R., & Abad, J. D. (2021). Meander Statistics Toolbox (MStaT): A toolbox for geometry characterization of bends in large meandering channels. SoftwareX, 14, 100674.

Naito, K., and Parker, G. (2020). Adjustment of self-formed bankfull channel geometry of meandering rivers: modelling study. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 45(13), 3313-3322, doi:10.1002/esp.4966.?

Naito, K., Guerrero, L., Valverde, H., Estrada, Y., Fuentes, F., Santillan, B., Valvidia, and Abad, J.D. (2020). Upstream channel degradation triggered by a meander cutoff: potential replacement for channel dredging. Proceedings of the 10th Conference on Fluvial Hydraulics, RIVER FLOW 2020, 510-516, ISBN 978-0-367- 62773- 7.?

Naito, K., and Parker, G. (2019). Can Bankfull Discharge and Bankfull Channel Characteristics of an Alluvial Meandering River be Co-specified From a Flow Duration Curve? Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface 124(10), 2381-2401, doi:10.1029/2018JF04971.?

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