Katsutoshi (Toshi) Mizuta

Katsutoshi “Toshi” Mizuta, Ph.D., is an assistant professor who is broadly interested in precision agriculture and digital soil mapping with a particular focus on soil health, climate-smart agriculture and ecosystem services. His expertise spans various areas, from conducting lab-based biogeochemical incubation studies to utilizing proximal, airborne and satellite remote sensing technologies and artificial intelligence for a large scale research based on big data of soil, crop, biome, climate, terrain, geology and human being. He is also dedicated to developing decision-making support tools for cost-effective and sustainable management practices concerning global food security and climate change. The highly interdisciplinary nature of his work has led to collaborations with various scientists, companies and government agencies.