James Lee

Dr. Natt Leelawat

Lecturer | Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University

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Area of Interest

ICT for Disaster Risk Reduction

Management Information Systems

System Analysis and Design

Disaster Management

Enterprise Engineering

Work Experience

Lecturer - Chulalongkorn University, Thailand (2017 - Present)

Lecturer of Department of Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Engineering

Secretary of Disaster Research Cluster, Faculty of Engineering

Assistant Professor - Tohoku University, Japan (2016 - 2017)

Tsunami Engineering Laboratory, International Research Institute of Technology (IRIDeS)

Postdoctoral Researcher - Tohoku University, Japan (2016)

Tsunami Engineering Laboratory, International Research Institute of Technology (IRIDeS)

Research Assistant - Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan (2013 - 2016)

Information Systems Laboratory, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management

System Analyst - Bank of Thailand (2007 - 2009)

Information Technology Department

Awards

Finalist - Falling Walls Young Innovator of the Year 2016 (2016)

Berlin, Germany

3rd PLACE Award - Falling Walls Lab Sendai (2016)

Miyagi, Japan

Poster Award - First Business Plan Competition (2016)

Tokyo, Japan

Best Presentatin Award - Fourth International Education Forum on Environment and Energy Science (2015)

Hawaii, USA

Best Collaboration Award - Fourth International Education Forum on Environment and Energy Science (2015)

Hawaii, USA

Best Paper Award - 6th International Conference on Sustainable Future for Human Security (2015)

Bali, Indonesia

Dean Award - Graduate School of Decision Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology (2015)

Tokyo, Japan

Best Collaboration Award - Second International Education Forum on Environment and Energy Science (2015)

California, USA

Best Presentation Award - 4th Thailand-Japan International Academic Conference (2011)

Tokyo, Japan

Best Idea Prize - STeLA Leadership Forum (2010)

Beijing, China

Most Popular Vote Prize - STeLA Leadership Forum (2010)

Beijing, China

Honorable Mention of Pra Siam Writing Award - Bank of Thailand (2007)

Bangkok, Thailand

First Class Honours - Thammasat University (2007)

Bangkok, Thailand

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Publications

Peer-reviewed Journals

  • Suppasri, A., Leelawat, N., Latcharote, P., Roeber, V., Yamashita, K., Hayashi, A., Ohira, H., Fukui, K., Hisamatsu, A., Nguyen, D., & Imamura, F. (2017). The 2016 Fukushima earthquake and tsunami: Local tsunami behavior and recommendations for tsunami disaster risk reduction. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 21, 323-330. doi: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2016.12.016 (ISI Impact Factor: 1.242)
  • Suppasri, A., Latcharote, P., Bricker, J. D., Leelawat, N., Hayashi, A., Yamashita, K., Makinoshima, F., Roeber, V., & Imamura, F. (2016). Improvement of tsunami countermeasures based on lessons from the 2011 Great East Japan earthquake and tsunami -- Situation after five years. Coastal Engineering Journal, 58(4), 164001-1-164001-30. doi: 10.1142/S0578563416400118 (ISI Impact Factor: 0.703)
  • Leelawat, N., Suppasri, A., Murao, O., & Imamura, F. (2016). A study on the influential factors on building damage in Sri Lanka during the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. Journal of Earthquake and Tsunami, 10(2), 1640001-1-1640001-11. doi: 10.1142/S1793431116400017 (ISI Impact Factor: 0.333)
  • Leelawat, N., Suppasri, A., Kure, S., Yi, C. J., Mateo, C. M. R., & Imamura, F. (2015). Disaster warning system in the Philippines through enterprise engineering perspective: A study on the 2013 Super Typhoon Haiyan. Journal of Disaster Research, 10(6), 1041-1050. doi: 10.20965/jdr.2015.p1041
  • Suppasri, A., Yi, C. J., Leelawat, N., Watanabe, M., Bricker, J. D., & Imamura, F. (2015). Field survey and analysis of damaged school buildings by the 2013 Typhoon Haiyan and storm surge. Journal of Japan Society of Civil Engineers, Ser. B2 (Coastal Engineering), 71(2), I_1669-I_1674. doi:10.2208/kaigan.71.I_1669
  • Leelawat, N., Suppasri, A., & Imamura, F. (2015). Disaster recovery and reconstruction following the 2011 Great East Japan earthquake and tsunami: A business process management perspective. International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, 6(3), 310-314. doi:10.1007/s13753-015-0066-1
  • Leelawat, N., Suppasri, A., Charvet, I., Kimura, T., Sugawara, D., & Imamura, F. (2015). A study on influential factors on building damage in Kesennuma, Japan from the 2011 Great East Japan tsunami. Engineering Journal, 19(3), 105-116. doi: 10.4186/ej.2015.19.3.105
  • Leelawat, N., Mateo, C. M. R., Gaspay, S. M., Suppasri, A., & Imamura, F. (2014). Filipinos' views on the disaster information for the 2013 Super Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines. International Journal of Sustainable Future for Human Security, 2(2), 16-28.
  • Leelawat, N., Suppasri, A., Charvet, I., & Imamura, F. (2014). Building damage from the 2011 Great East Japan tsunami: quantitative assessment of influential factors. Natural Hazards, 73(2), 449-471. doi:10.1007/s11069-014-1081-z (won Tokyo Tech Graduate School of Decision Science and Technology Dean Award 2014; ISI Impact Factor: 1.719)

Book Chapters

  • Suppasri, A., Charvet, I., Macabuag, J., Rossetto, T., Leelawat, N., Latcharote, P., & Imamura, F. (2015). Building damage assessment and implications for future tsunami fragility estimations. In M. Esteban, H. Takagi, & T. Shibayama (Eds.), Handbook of Coastal Disaster Mitigation for Engineers and Planners (pp. 147-178), Oxford: Elsevier. doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-801060-0.00009-5
  • Leelawat, N., Suppasri, A., & Imamura, F. (2015). The tsunami warning system in Thailand: A part of the reconstruction process after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. In V. Santiago-Fandiño, Y. A. Kontar, & Y. Kaneda (Eds.), Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research: Vol. 44. Post-Tsunami Hazard: Reconstruction and Restoration (pp. 111-119), Cham: Springer International Publishing. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-10202-3_8

Technical Reports

  • Leelawat, N. (2016, September). Applying the enterprise engineering to disaster management. Technology in Japan that can be beneficial to Thailand (pp. 7-9), Tokyo: Association of Thai Professionals in Japan.
  • Leelawat, N., Suppasri, A., Yasuda, M., & Imamura, F. (2014, March). Disaster warning broadcasting process management: A case study of landslide from Typhoon Wipha at Izu-Oshima in 2013. Report of Tsunami Engineering: Vol. 31 (pp. 49-57), Miyagi: International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku University. URL

Magazines and Non-academic Books

  • ณัฏฐ์ ลีละวัฒน์ และ อนวัช สรรพศรี. (2560). Natural disasters and a view through the lens of Japan to Thailand (in Thai) (ภัยธรรมชาติกับมุมมองผ่านเลนส์ประเทศญี่ปุ่นสู่ประเทศไทย). หนังสือที่ระลึก 65 ปี สนญ. (น. 112-117), กรุงเทพฯ: สมาคมนักเรียนเก่าญี่ปุ่น ในพระบรมราชูปถัมภ์.
  • ณัฏฐ์ ลีละวัฒน์, และ อนวัช สรรพศรี. (2559, กันยายน). Lessons from the crisis communication: Case study of the 2013 Typhoon Wipha at Japan (in Thai) (บทเรียนเกี่ยวกับการสื่อสารในภาวะวิกฤต: กรณีศึกษาพายุไต้ฝุ่นวิภา ปี พ.ศ. 2556 ที่ประเทศญี่ปุ่น). Reverse Brain Drain e-Newsletter: Vol. 6, Iss. 3 (น. 11-13), ปทุมธานี: สำนักงานพัฒนาวิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยีแห่งชาติ.
  • อนวัช สรรพศรี, ปานนท์ ลาชโรจน์, และ ณัฏฐ์ ลีละวัฒน์. (2559, กุมภาพันธ์). Lessons learned from tsunamis in Japan and the right management model for Thailand (in Thai) (บทเรียนจากสึนามิในประเทศญี่ปุ่นและรูปแบบการบริหารจัดการที่เหมาะสมสำหรับประเทศไทย). Reverse Brain Drain e-Newsletter: Vol. 6, Iss. 1 (น. 11-13), ปทุมธานี: สำนักงานพัฒนาวิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยีแห่งชาติ.

Peer-reviewed International Conferences

  • Otake, T., Suppasri, A., Latcharote, P., Imamura, F., Leelawat, N., & Nguyen, D. (2017, May 20-25). A global assessment of tsunami hazards over the last 400 years. JpGU-AGU Joint Meeting 2017, Chiba, Japan.
  • Thamarux, P., Leelawat, N., & Matsuoka, M. (2017, May). The GIS database analysis for multi natural hazards risk estimation web application development: A focus on startups in Thailand. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Remote Sensing (ISRS 2017) (pp. 163-166), Nagoya, Japan
  • Leelawat, N., Suppasri, A., Latcharote, P., Imamura, F., Abe, Y., & Sugiyasu, K. (2017). Increasing tsunami risk awareness via mobile application. In E. Meilianda, A. Sakurai, E. Maly, & R. Suryani (Eds.), IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science: Vol. 56. 10th Aceh International Workshop and Expo on Sustainable Tsunami Disaster Recovery (AIWEST-DR 2016) 22-24 November 2016, Banda Aceh, Indonesia (012001), Bristol: IOP Publishing. doi: 10.1088/1755-1315/56/1/012001
  • Latcharote, P., Leelawat, N., Suppasri, A., & Imamura, F. (2017). Developing estimating equations of fatality ratio based on surveyed data of the 2011 Great East Japan tsunami. In E. Meilianda, A. Sakurai, E. Maly, & R. Suryani (Eds.), IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science: Vol. 56. 10th Aceh International Workshop and Expo on Sustainable Tsunami Disaster Recovery (AIWEST-DR 2016) 22-24 November 2016, Banda Aceh, Indonesia (012011), Bristol: IOP Publishing. doi: 10.1088/1755-1315/56/1/012011
  • Leelawat, N., Suppasri, A., Latcharote, P., Yasuda, M., & Imamura, F. (2016, October 29). Evacuation of Thai Citizens during the 2016 Kumamoto earthquakes. The 8th Thailand-Japan International Academic Conference Book of Abstract (p. 50), Tokyo: Thai Students' Association in Japan under the Royal Patronage.
  • Thamarux, P., Leelawat, N., & Matsuoka, M. (2016, August 28-September 1). SME's business risk assessment mobile application development for disaster management in Thailand. In M. Stal, D. Sigrist, S. Wahlen, J. Portmann, J. Glover, N. Bernabe, D. M. de Vitry, & W. J. Ammann (Eds.), IDRC Davos 2016 Extended Abstract Collection. Proceedings of the 6th International Disaster and Risk Conference IDRC Davos 2016 (pp. 590-593), Davos: Global Risk Forum GRF Davos.
  • Leelawat, N., Suppasri, A., Latcharote, P., & Imamura, F. (2016, July 31-August 5). Prototype design of mobile solution for tsunami awareness. The 13th Annual Meeting of Asia Oceania Geosciences Society 2016, Beijing, China.
  • Latcharote, P., Suppasri, A., Leelawat, N., & Imamura, F. (2016, July 31-August 5). Developing a relationship between fatality and tsunami arrival time based on the 2011 Great East Japan tsunami for future loss assessment. The 13th Annual Meeting of Asia Oceania Geosciences Society 2016, Beijing, China.
  • Leelawat, N., Suppasri, A., Park, J., Charvet, I., Latcharote, P., Imamura, F., Iijima, J., & Abe, Y. (2016, June 30-July 2). DamageEstimateApp: A mobile application that estimates building damages from tsunami disasters. In Costa, P. T., Zêzere, J. L., Catita, C., Ferreira, M. A., Garcia, R. A. C., Matias, L., Pais, I., Ribeiro, M. J., Rio, I., & Sousa, M. L. (eds.). ICUR2016 Proceedings/Atas ICUR2016 (pp. 267-274), Lisbon: European Centre on Urban Risks.
  • Leelawat, N., Suppasri, A., Yasuda, M., Nouchi, R., Yi, C. J., Imamura, F., & Iijima, J. (2015, December 6-10). Disaster and education toward a sustainable and safety society: Disaster education programs in Thailand and the Philippines. Proceedings of the Fourth International Education Forum on Environment and Energy Science 2015, Hawaii, HI, USA (won Best Presentation Award).
  • Leelawat, N., Mahari, A., Srivichai, M., Suppasri, A., Imamura, F., & Bricker, J. D. (2015, November 17-19). Preference for information during flood disasters: A study of Thailand and Indonesia. The 6th International Conference on Sustainable Future for Human Security, SUSTAIN 2015 (won Best Paper Award).
  • Suppasri, A., Leelawat, N., Charvet, I., Yi, C. J., & Imamura, F. (2015, June 22-July 2). Comparison of building damage caused by the 2011 Tohoku earthquake tsunami and the 2013 Super Typhoon Haiyan storm surge. 26th IUGG General Assembly 2015, Prague, Czech Republic. URL
  • Suppasri, A., Charvet, I., Leelawat, N., Fukutani, Y., Muhari, A., Futami, T., & Imamura, F. (2014, December 15-19). Empirical fragility analysis of buildings and boats damaged by the 2011 Great East Japan tsunami and their practical application. AGU Fall Meeting 2014, San Francisco, CA, USA. URL
  • Leelawat, N., Suppasri, A., Srivihok, P., & Imamura, F. (2014, December 12-17). Regional tsunami warning systems: A study on Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean. Proceedings of the Third International Education Forum on Environment and Energy Science 2014, Perth, Australia.
  • Leelawat, N., Suppasri, A., Charvet, I., Kimura, T., Sugawara, D., & Imamura, F. (2014, November 22). Analysis of influential factors on building damage from the 2011 Great East Japan tsunami using multinomial logistic regression. Proceedings of the 7th Thailand-Japan International Academic Conference 2014, Tokyo, Japan, pp. 53-56.
  • Leelawat, N., Suppasri, A., & Imamura, F. (2014, July 28-August 1). Disaster warning system process management: A comparison study between Japan and Thailand. The 11th Annual Meeting of Asia Oceania Geosciences Society 2014, Hokkaido, Japan.
  • Leelawat, N., Suppasri, A., & Imamura, F. (2013, December 13-17). Analyzing the essence of the disaster warning system in Japan. Proceedings of the Second International Education Forum on Environment and Energy Science 2013, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
  • Leelawat, N., Suppasri, A., & Imamura, F. (2013, November 9). Behind the Tohoku's operation comb mission to secure the routes of rescue: An enterprise engineering perspective. Proceedings of the 6th Thailand-Japan International Academic Conference 2013, Osaka, Japan, 89-92.
  • Leelawat, N., & Iijima, J. (2013, September 19-22). Emergency response organization through enterprise engineering perspective. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development 2013, Algarve, Portugal, 148-155. doi:10.5220/0004520901480155
  • Leelawat, N., Pee, L. G., & Iijima, J. (2013, June 10-13). Mobile apps in flood disasters: What information do users prefer? Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Mobile Business 2013, Berlin, Germany.
  • Leelawat, N. (2011, November 29-December 2). Tablets vs smartphones: Differences in m-commerce application design. Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Electronic Business 2011, Bangkok, Thailand, 97-104.
  • Leelawat, N., & Iijima, J. (2011, November 26). Toward mobile applications trend: A developer's perspective in Thailand. Proceedings of the 4th Thailand-Japan International Academic Conference 2011, Tokyo, Japan, 105-106 (won The Best Presentation Award).
  • Leelawat, N. (2010, November 18-19). A study of electronic money for online games in Thailand. Proceedings of the Nineth International Conference on e-Business 2010, Bangkok, Thailand, 6-12. URI

Domestic Conferences

  • Leelawat, N., Suppasri, A., Latcharote, P., Abe, Y., Sugiyasu, K., & Imamura, F. (2016, December 8-9). Tsunami evacuation drill: An experimental study on the use of mobile application prototype. 第6回巨大津波災害に関する合同研究集会[The 6th Annual Tsunami Seminar], Kansai University, Osaka, Japan.
  • Leelawat, N., Suppasri, A., Park, J., Charvet, I., Latcharote, P., Imamura, F., & Iijima, J. (2015, December 4). From building damage research to building damage mobile application. 第5回巨大津波災害に関する合同研究集会[The 5th Annual Tsunami Seminar], Earthquake Research Institute, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
  • Leelawat, N. (2015, November 14). From disaster study to mobile technology: Research to practice. Thai-Japan Integrated Annual Educational Talk, Kyoto, Japan, 24.
  • Leelawat, N., Suppasri, A., Yasuda, M., Yi, C. J., Mateo, C. M. R., Gaspay, S. M., & Imamura, F. (2015, May 24-28). Disaster information and awareness: A study on typhoon and storm surge in the Philippines. The Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2015, Chiba, Japan. URL
  • Leelawat, N., Suppasri, A., Murao, O., & Imamura, F. (2014, December 4-6). Analysis of influential factors on building damage from the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami: A case study of Sri Lanka. Proceedings of the 14th Japan Earthquake Engineering Symposium 2014, Chiba, Japan, 1633-1638.
  • Leelawat, N., Suppasri, A., & Imamura, F. (2014, April 28-May 2). Disaster warning system in Thailand through enterprise engineering perspective. The Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2014, Kanagawa, Japan. URL
  • Leelawat, N., Suppasri, A., & Imamura, F. (2014, January 7-8). Process analysis of Tohoku's first motion to secure the routes of rescue. 平成25年度東北地域災害科学研究集会[Proceedings of the Tohoku Regional Research Seminar on Disaster Science 2013], Akita, Japan.

Others

  • Imamura, F., Suppasri, A., Leelawat, N., Latcharote, P., Makinoshima, F., Watanabe, M., Ohira, H., Hirakawa, Y., Togawa, N., Hasegawa, N., Otake, T., Baba, R., Fukui, K., Sato, S., Yamashita, K., Hayashi, A., & Abe, Y. (2016, November). .Modeling the tsunami of 22 November 2016 in Fukushima. Retrieved Nov. 23, 2016, from http://www.tsunami.civil.tohoku.ac.jp/hokusai3/J/events/20161122_fukushima/20161122_fukushima.html
  • Imamura, F., Suppasri, A., Leelawat, N., Latcharote, P., Makinoshima, F., Watanabe, M., Ohira, H., Hirakawa, Y., Togawa, N., Hasegawa, N., Otake, T., Baba, R., Fukui, K., Sato, S., Yamashita, K., Hayashi, A., & Abe, Y. (2016, November). Modeling the tsunami of 14 November 2016 in New Zealand. Retrieved Nov. 15, 2016, from http://www.tsunami.civil.tohoku.ac.jp/hokusai3/J/events/NZ_20161114/NZ_20161114.html
  • Leelawat, N. (2016, October 22). The Sentinel. Breaking the Wall of Tsunami Evacuation: Behind the Scene. Retrieved Oct. 22, 2016, from http://www.tohokusentinel.com/breaking-the-wall-of-tsunami-evacuation-behind-the-scene/

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