Research Interests

Group Motto: 

"We champion scholarly integrity, protect our intellectual property, foster active citizenship, and embrace community diversity."

Our group strives to secure society's resilience to natural disasters through an integrative understanding of social-natural systems.  The natural hazards we study include drought, heatwave, wildfire, flood, earthquake, and compound extremes. Our analyses span various spatiotemporal scales, ranging from catchment- to global-level and sub-seasonal to decadal timescales. Our approach is interdisciplinary converging hydrology, climatology, hydraulics, and social psychology. We hope our scholarly products will advance the current limited understanding of the coupled dynamics between social and natural systems.  

We always keep an eye out for new research collaboration opportunities. If you are interested in our past or current projects, please feel free to contact us. 

1) Hydroclimatology

    1.1) Drought mechanisms, risk, and predictability

    1.2) Detection and attribution of hydrologic changes over the globe

2) Land surface hydrologic modeling 

     2.1) Developing innovative technologies for dual water quantity and quality monitoring

     2.2) Assessing the explainability of AI techniques for hydrologic modeling for built-in environments

     2.3) Developing an integrative water quantity-water quality modeling

3) Hydrologic forecasting 

     3.1) Assessing the sub-seasonal to seasonal forecasting skills for historical droughts

     3.2) Improve the prediction skill over coupled human and natural systems

4) Disaster Informatics 

    5.1) Develop monitoring techniques of social responses during natural disasters and environemtnal incidents

    5.2) Modeling social dynamics during the water-related disasters

Updated: 24 October 2026