Dr. Salem Ibrahim Salem earned his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Tokyo in 2017, following his B.Sc. and M.Sc. from Alexandria University. He has extensive experience in academia and research, including eight years as a teaching assistant in Egypt and two years as a researcher in Japan. His work focuses on remote sensing for water quality monitoring, using satellite missions like GCOM-C, Sentinel-3, and MODIS to support environmental conservation. He is a co-investigator on JAXA’s GCOM-C validation team and a NASA/PACE Early Adopter. His research also spans voice recognition, data simulation, and machine learning applications.