Daisuke Murakami received his Ph.D. degree in Engineering from the University of Tsukuba in 2014. From 2014 to 2017, he worked at the National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, as a research associate. Since 2017, he has been with the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Japan, where he served as an assistant professor until 2023 and has been an associate professor since then. His research interests include spatial and spatiotemporal statistics, quantitative geography, and urban and environmental analysis.