Welcome to Hiroki’s Page!

Contact

Email: [hirokiando@arizona.edu] or [hirokiando.res@gmail.com]
CV: PDF

Education

• August 2023 - Present: University of Arizona (USA), Ph.D. program in Environmental Health Sciences

• April 2021 - March 2023: University of Hokkaido (Japan), Enviromental Engineering (Master in Engineering)

  • Supervisor: Dr. Masaaki Kitajima
  • Advisors: Dr. Satoshi Okabe & Dr. Mamoru Oshiki
  • Thesis’s title: Development of highly sensitive detection methods and mathematical models to understand viral infectious disease prevalence through wastewater surveillance

• April 2017 - March 2021: University of Hokkaido (Japan), Enviromental Engineering (Bachelor in Engineering)

Research interests

Wastewater and environmental water surveillance for infectious diseases: an interdisciplinary discipline between environmental engineering and public health.

• Development of detection methods for pathogens in wastewater and environmental water
• Fate and transportation of pathogens in the environment
• Time series analysis of wastewater surveillance data
• Mathematical infectious disease modeling using wastewater surveillance data

Skills

• Wastewater concentration, Nucleotide extraction, PCR
• R programming
• Time series analysis; state-space modeling
• Stochastic (infectious disease) modeling
• Deterministic infectious disease modeling
• Quantitative microbial risk assessment
• Geographic information technology (learning)
• Machine learning (learning)

Awards

10. Best Research Award at the 8th International Society for Food and Environmental Virology (9-14 June, 2024)

9. Awardee for One Health Pilot Grants, sponsored by UA's One Health Research Initiative ($50,000/ May 2024)

8. Adopted as a scholarship student by the Funai Foundation for Information Technology (Sep-tember 2023 – August 2025)

7. Adopted as a scholarship student by the Nishihara cultural foundation (April 2022 ‒ March 2023)

6. Presentation award at the 55th Japan Society on Water Environment (Kurita award, 2022 March)

5. Presentation award at the 14th interim presentation of master’s thesis (2021 December)

4. Environmental technology and project award at the 58th Environmental Engineering Re-search Forum (2021 October)

3. Poster award at the 7th Cross-Departmental Symposium of Hokkaido University (2021 Octo-ber)

2. Poster award at the 55th Japan Society on Water Environment (Lion award, 2021 March)

1. Dean of Engineering Award (The highest GPA in the Environmental Engineering course in Hokkaido University, 2021 March)