Kurama Okubo
Chief Researcher at National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience
Japan
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Top SchoolKurama Okubo is a chief researcher at Japan's National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience with nine years of experience probing earthquake source mechanics across scales. Trained in Earth Sciences at Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris and Kyoto University, Kurama combines numerical modeling, ambient seismic noise monitoring, and laboratory experiments to resolve rupture dynamics with high spatiotemporal fidelity. His work spans academic postdocs including Harvard to leadership roles at NIED, translating fundamental insights into realistic earthquake rupture scenarios for hazard assessment. Known for integrating diverse datasets and methods, he focuses on the critical, often-overlooked link between small-scale frictional processes and large-scale rupture behavior. Based in Japan, he brings a rigorous, multi-disciplinary approach aimed at improving the realism and robustness of earthquake simulations used in disaster resilience.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering, Civil and Earth Resources Engineering, Master of Engineering, Civil and Earth Resources Engineering at Kyoto UniversityPh. D., Earth Sciences, Environments and Planets, Ph. D., Earth Sciences, Environments and Planets at Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
Japanese, French, English
Github Skills (34)
pluto9
hierarchical9
insar9
quantile9
sta9
aem8
geodesy8
geostatistics8
earthquake8
geoscience7
cross-correlation7
gmt7
seismology7
correlation7
geology7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
kura-okubo/SeisMonitoring_Paper
Feb 2021 - May 2024
Contributions:3 releases, 58 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 2 months
jaredbryan881/SeisXcorrelation.jl
Jun 2019 - Feb 2020
Compute cross-correlation function of each waveform pairs.
Contributions:140 commits, 133 pushes, 3 branches in 8 months
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