Details of the Researcher

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Vescovo Ruben
Section
International Research Institute of Disaster Science
Job title
Assistant Professor

Professional Memberships 3

  • Japan Society of Civil Engineers

    2024/09 - Present

  • American Geophysical Union

    2024/09 - Present

  • European Geoscience Union

    2024/09 - Present

Research Interests 8

  • Tsunami damage inference

  • Machine learning

  • Control theory

  • Complex systems

  • Agent based models

  • Probabilistic modelling and inference

  • Decision making

  • Bayesian Mechanics

Papers 7

  1. Probabilistic tsunami fragility: an uncertainty-aware framework for disaggregated building damage estimation

    Ruben Vescovo, Bruno Adriano, Erick Mas, Shunichi Koshimura

    Scientific Reports 2026/09/12

    DOI: 10.1038/s41598-026-70348-1  

  2. Leveraging LLMs for rapid disaster impacts assessment through News Media: A case study of the 2025 Myanmar Earthquake

    Ruben Vescovo, Xuanyan Dong, Sesa Wiguna, Chia Yee Ho, Bruno Adriano, Erick Mas, Shunichi Koshimura

    International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 2026/07

    DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2026.106195  

  3. The 2024 Noto Peninsula earthquake building damage dataset: Multi-source visual assessment

    Ruben Vescovo, Bruno Adriano, Sesa Wiguna, Chia Yee Ho, Jorge Morales, Xuanyan Dong, Shin Ishii, Kazuki Wako, Yudai Ezaki, Ayumu Mizutani, Erick Mas, Satoshi Tanaka, Shunichi Koshimura

    2025/03/05

    DOI: 10.5194/essd-2024-363  

  4. The 2004 Noto Peninsula Earthquake Tsunami - It's Generation, Propagation, Inundation, and Impact

    Shunichi Koshimura, Bruno Adriano, Ayumu Mizutani, Erick Mas, Yusaku Ohta, Shohei Nagata, Yuriko Takeda, Ruben Vescovo, Sesa Wiguna, Takashi Abe, Takayuki Suzuki

    2025/01/20

    DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu24-22527  

  5. The Impact of the 2024 Noto Peninsula Earthquake Tsunami

    Shunichi Koshimura, Bruno Adriano, Ayumu Mizutani, Erick Mas, Yusaku Ohta, Shohei Nagata, Yuriko Takeda, Ruben Vescovo, Sesa Wiguna, Takashi Abe, Takayuki Suzuki

    2025/01/20

    DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu24-22523  

  6. Building Damage Mapping of the 2024 Noto Peninsula Earthquake, Japan, Using Semi-Supervised Learning and VHR Optical Imagery

    Wiguna, S., Adriano, B., Vescovo, R., Mas, E., Mizutani, A., Koshimura, S.

    IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters 21 2024

    DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2024.3407725  

    ISSN: 1558-0571 1545-598X

  7. Beyond tsunami fragility functions: experimental assessment for building damage estimation

    Ruben Vescovo, Bruno Adriano, Erick Mas, Shunichi Koshimura

    Scientific Reports 13 (1) 2023/08/31

    Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media {LLC}

    DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-41047-y  

    ISSN: 2045-2322

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Presentations 3

  1. Digital DMAT: Towards Fully Coupling a Digital Multi-agent Model of Japan’s Disaster Medical Assistance Teams Through Real Time Medical Data Feedback

    Ruben Vescovo, Erick Mas, Bruno Adriano, Shunichi Koshimura

    Asia Oceania Geosciences Society 2026/08

  2. Investigating group decision making and survival under time pressure - An agent based perspective

    Ruben Vescovo, Erick Mas, Shunichi Koshimura

    The 18th Aceh International Workshop and Expo on Sustainable Disaster Recovery

  3. Expert Perspective: Closing Gaps and Creating Opportunities Together: Developing the TyphoonCommittee’s Future Strategy Invited

    XIANG Chunyi, ADRIANO Bruno, VESCOVO Ruben, YAMAGUCHI Munehiko

    ESCAP/WMO Typhoon Committee 2025/12/02

Research Projects 2

  1. How do emergent characteristics of group decision-making contribute to group survival in disasters? An agent-based perspective

    VESCOVO Ruben, MAS Erick, KOSHIMURA Shunichi

    Institution: International Research Institute of Disaster Science

    2025/10 - 2026/04

  2. Enabling Human-Centered Digital Twin for Community Resilience

    Shunichi Koshimura, Nalini Venkatasubramanian, Erick Mas, Bruno Adriano, Shohei Nagata, Shinji Kataya, Naomichi Kuwahara, Sharad Mehrotra, Magaly Koch, Ronald Eguchi, Julie Rousseau, Zhenghui Hu, Georgiana Esquivias, Ruben Vescovo

    Institution: Tohoku University

    2024/04 - 2026/03