Qiang Guo

Qiang GUO

Assistant Professor, Institute of Systems and Information Engineering

Short Bio

I'm a climate change scientist with interests in climate change impact assessment, urban heat islands, regional climate modeling, global water resources, and machine learning.

My research began with statistical and dynamical downscaling of climate model outputs and examining the hydrological impacts of climate change. Currently, I focus on accurately forecasting heat stress under global warming and developing effective adaptation and mitigation strategies for society. To achieve these goals, I utilize a variety of tools, including multi-source datasets (e.g., station data, remote sensing, climate model simulations, mortality/morbidity observations), physical-based numerical modeling (e.g., WRF), and machine learning techniques.

Work

2025.06 - Now, Tenure-Track Assistant Professor (PI), University of Tsukuba

2024.10 - 2025.05, Project Assistant Professor (特任助教), University of Tokyo

2023.10 - 2024.09, Project Researcher (特任研究員), University of Tokyo

Education

2020 - 2023, Ph.D., Civil Engineering, University of Tokyo

2017 - 2020, M.E., Hydrology, Wuhan University

2013 - 2017, B.E., Hydrology and Information Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST)

Selected Publications

• Guo Q.*, Madaniyazi L., Nomura S., Chen K., and Hashizume M., 2025: Population aging exacerbates heat stroke-related ambulance transportations in Japan, Environment International, 199 (5), 109506.

• Guo Q.*, Phung V.L.H., Ng C.F.S., Oka K., Honda Y., and Hashizume M., 2025: Comparing Integrated Heat Stress Indicators With Raw Meteorological Variables in Predicting Heat Stroke-Related Ambulance Transportations in Japan, GeoHealth, 9(4), e2024GH001257.

• Guo Q.*, Mistry M.N., Zhou X., Zhao G., Kino K., Wen B., Yoshimura K., Satoh Y., Cvijanovic I., Kim Y., Ng C.F.S., Vicedo-Cabrera A.M., Armstrong B., Urban A., Katsouyanni K., Masselot P., Tong S., Sera F., Huber V., Bell M.L., Kyselý J., Gasparrini A., Hashizume M., and Oki T., 2024: Regional Variation in the Role of Humidity on City-level Heat-Related Mortality, PNAS Nexus, 3(8), pgae290.
(Media Coverage in English: U-Tokyo, EurekAlert, Alpha Galileo in Japanese: U-Tokyo, Tech+, Nikkei (日経新聞), Nikkan Kogyo (⽇刊⼯業新聞) )

• Guo Q.*, Yuan L., Ng C.F.S., and Hashizume M., 2024: Evaluating Japan's revised heat-health warning system in the face of recent escalating heat stress, Environmental Research Letters, 19, 054002.

• Guo Q.*, and Hibino K., 2023: Physical responses of Baiu extreme precipitation to future warming: examples of the 2018 and 2020 western Japan events, Weather and Climate Extremes, Vol. 39, 100547.

• Guo Q.*, Zhou X., Satoh Y., and Oki T., 2022: Irrigated cropland expansion exacerbates the urban moist heat stress in northern India, Environmental Research Letters, 17, 054013.

• Guo Q., Chen J.*, Zhang X., Xu C., and Chen H., 2020: Impacts of Using State‐of‐the‐Art Multivariate Bias Correction Methods on Hydrological Modeling Over North America, Water Resources Research, 56(5), e2019WR026659.

• Guo Q., Chen J.*, Zhang X., Shen M., Chen H., and Guo S., 2019: A new two-stage multivariate quantile mapping method for bias correcting climate model outputs, Climate Dynamics, 53, 3603-3623.

Conference Talks

[11] Guo Q., Hashizume M., and Oki T.: Optimizing Heat Stress Indicators for Protecting Human Health During Extreme Heat Events, AOGS 2025, Singapore, 27 Jul.-1 Aug. 2025 (Oral Presentation, Invited)

[10] Guo Q., Madaniyazi L., Nomura S., Chen K., and Hashizume M.: Population Aging Exacerbates Heat Stroke-Related Ambulance Transportations in Japan, JpGU 2025, Chiba, Japan, 25-30 May 2025 (Poster Presentation)

[9] Guo Q., Yuan L., Ng C.F.S., and Hashizume M.: Evaluating Japan's Revised Heat-Health Warning System in The Face of Recent Escalating Heat Stress, AGU 2024, Washington, D.C., USA, 9-13 Dec. 2024 (Oral Presentation)

[8] Guo Q., Ng C.F.S., Kim Y., and Hashizume M.: Regional Variation in the Role of Humidity on City-level Heat-Related Mortality - What implications can we obtain for Japan?, The 89th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Health and Human Ecology (JSHHE), Tokyo, Japan, Oct. 12-13rd, 2024 (Oral Presentation)

[7] Guo Q., Mistry M., Gasparrini A., Hashizume M., and Oki T.: Regional Variation in the Role of Humidity on City-level Heat-Related Mortality, AGU 2023, San Francisco, USA, Dec. 11-17th, 2023 (Elightning Presentation)

[6] Guo Q., Mistry M., Gasparrini A., Hashizume M., and Oki T.: Regional Variation in the Role of Humidity on City-level Heat-Related Mortality, ISEE 2023, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Sep. 17-22nd, 2023 (Poster Presentation)

[5] Guo Q., Zhou X., Satoh Y., and Oki T.: Irrigation Cropland Expansion Strengthened the Urban Moist Heat Stress in Northern India, AGU 2022, Chicago, USA, Dec. 12-16th, 2022 (Oral Presentation)

[4] Guo Q., Zhou X., Satoh Y., and Oki T.: Irrigation Cropland Expansion Strengthened the Urban Moist Heat Stress in Northern India, Land Surface Modeling Summit, Oxford, UK, Sep. 12-15th, 2022 (Poster Presentation)

[3] Guo Q., Oki T., Zhou X., and Satoh Y., Irrigation Cropland Expansion Strengthened the Urban Moist Heat Stress in Northern India, JSHWR/JAHS Meeting, Online, Japan, Sep. 15-18th, 2021 (Oral Presentation)

[2] Guo Q., Chen J., Zhang X., Xu C., and Chen H., Multivaraite Bias Correction of Climate Model Outputs for Hydrological Impact Studies, AGU 2019, San Francisco, USA, Dec. 9-13th, 2019 (Poster Presentation)

[1] Guo Q., and Chen J., A Multivariate Bias Correction Method for Climate Model Outputs Based on Distribution-Free Shuffle Approach, 15th China Water Forum, Shenzhen, China, Nov. 10-12th, 2017 (Oral Presentation)

Invited Workshop Talks

[3] Guo Q.: Data-Driven Optimization of Heat Stress Indicators for Human Health Protection, 2025 Heat Early Warning System Symposium, Griffith University, Brisbane, Aug. 15th, 2025 (Oral Presentation)

[2] Guo Q.: Irrigated cropland expansion exacerbates the urban moist heat stress in northern India, IAS-FLORES Joint Workshop, United Nation University, Tokyo, Oct. 6th, 2022 (Oral Presentation)

[1] Guo Q.: Irrigated cropland expansion exacerbates the urban moist heat stress in northern India, Yale-NUIST Center on Atmospheric Environment, Online, Jun. 24th, 2022 (Oral Presentation)

Academic Service

• Reviewer of Nature Water, Nature Health, Nature Communications, Communications Earth & Environment, npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, npj Digital Medicine, Environmental Science & Technology, JGR-Atmospheres, GeoHealth, Environmental Research Letters, Environmental Research Communications, Climate Dynamics, Journal of Hydrometeorology, Climatic Change, iScience, Theoretical and Applied Climatology, etc.

• AGU GeoHealth Early Career Researcher (ECR) Committee Member (2024-2025)

• Convenor of session “GH001: Actionable GeoHealth research for climate and health adaptation and decision-support”of AGU 2024, Washington, D.C., USA, 9-13 December 2024

Selected Awards

• Ph.D. thesis was awarded the Graduate School of Engineering Dean's Prize, University of Tokyo (東京大学工学系研究科長賞(博士)), 2024

• Elected as the Ph.D. student representative to give graduate speech at graduation ceremony, Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 2023

• "Excellent Academic Master's Thesis" in The 3rd National Outstanding Graduate Dissertation Selection for Water Conservancy Majors (3 prize-winner in Wuhan University and 30 prize-winner in China), 2022

• Best Presentation Award of Hydrosphere Science Project (HSP, 2021), The University of Tokyo, 2021

• Excellent graduate of Wuhan University, 2020

• Second-prize in 14th "Huawei Cup" National Post-Graduate Mathematical Modeling Contest of China, 2017

• Excellent graduate of HUST, 2017

• Outstanding student leader of HUST, 2015

• Outstanding student leader of HUST, 2014