Wataru Takeuchi is a Professor at Institute of Industrial Science at The University of Tokyo, Japan where he has been a faculty member since 2007. He is the Group Leader of Remote Sensing of Environment and Disaster Lab. He has served as the Senior Policy Analyst for Energy and Environment at the Cabinet Office of the Government of Japan from 2017 to 2019 and a director of Japan Society for Promotion of Sciences (JSPS) Bangkok office from 2010 to 2012. Dr. Takeuchi's research interests lie in developing methodology to measure and evaluate the environmental changes of city, agricultural area and forested area focused on human activities in Asian countries.