Dr. Shunichi Koshimura is a deputy director and a professor at the International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku University. At Tohoku, he is also a professor of the Graduate School of Engineering. Koshimura teaches classes on Disaster Management, Coastal Engineering, Numerical Modeling, and Remote Sensing. His research focuses on "Real-time Disaster Science" that aims to enhance disaster resilience by fusion of numerical modeling, earth observation and geo-informatics with HPCI (High Performance Computing Infrastructure).

Koshimura is a co-founder and CTO of RTi-cast, a university-based technology start-up to offer real-time tsunami inundation damage forecast services to government organizations and commercial clients. RTi-cast is officially licensed by JMA (Japan Meteorological Agency) to provide a unique private-based tsunami forecast services.

Koshimura received Ph.D. degree from the Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University in 2000. After graduating Tohoku University, he started his career as a JSPS research fellow in Earthquake Research Institute, the University of Tokyo, and in Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL), NOAA, USA. In 2005, He joined the Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University as an associate professor, then in 2012, International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku University, as a full professor.