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Yasuyuki Akita

Ph.D. student
Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7400

Phone: (919) 966 1173
Fax: (919) 966 7911
e-mail: akita@email.unc.edu

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Education

• Ph.D. Student in Environmental Sciences & Engineering, UNC-Chapel Hill, Advisor: Dr. Marc Serre.
• MS, Environmental Sciences & Engineering, UNC-Chapel Hill, Advisor: Dr. Marc Serre. Thesis: Spatiotemporal non-attainment assessment analysis of the surface water quality standard for tetrachloroethene in the state of New Jersey.
• MSE, Physics, Sophia University, Japan, Advisor: Dr. Tomi Ohtsuki. Thesis: Localization of phonon in disordered lattice
• BS, Physics, Sophia University, Japan, Advisor: Dr. Tomi Ohtsuki.

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Research Interests

• Bayesian Maximum Entropy (BME) Application to Environmental Modeling
• Development of python GUI for spatiotemporal Geostatistics
• Environmental Epidemiology

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Research Position

· Research Assistant, Current

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Academics

• Course Works at UNC- Chapel Hill

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Publication

· Akita, Y., G. Carter, and M.L. Serre (2006) Spatiotemporal non-attainment assessment of surface water tretrachloroethylene in New Jersey, Journal of Environmental Quality, In review.

· Akita, Y., and T. Ohtsuki (1998) Anderson transition of three dimensional phonon modes, J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. Vol 67: 2954

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Presentation

· Akita, Y., M.L. Serre, G. Carter, 2006. Research Translation in Spatiotemporal Exposure Assessment for Contaminated River Superfund Site, EPA Science Forum 2006, Poster session, Washington DC, USA, May 16-18.

· M.L. Serre, Y. Akita, G. Carter, 2006.  Assessing Surface Water Quality in New Jersey: Using GIS, spatio-temporal Geostatistics, and BME. A One-day Application Development Session at the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, Trenton, NJ, USA, May 15.

· Serre, M.L., S.J. Lee, E. Money and Y. Akita (2005). Integrating Multiple Source Data Uncertainty for Spatiotemporally Distributed Hydrological Systems, 2005 American Geophysical Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California, USA, December 05-09

· Money, E., Y. Akita, G. Carter and M.L. Serre (2005). Space/Time Assessment Of Water Quality Along The River Network In New Jersey, 2005 American Geophysical Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California, USA, December 05-09

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Work Experience

• Compaq computer K.K., Tokyo, Japan (April 1998- September 2002)
1. System Engineer
2. Microsoft Certified System Engineer (NT4.0 Track)

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Award

• 3^rd place: Poster session in EPA Science Forum 2006, under the built environment theme

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