Research Interests

Group Motto: 

"We are pursuing the integrity in our scholarly products, the ownership of our intellectual properties, the citizenship of our group, and the diversity in our community. "

We strive to increase the resilience of our society to natural disasters through an integrative understanding of social-natural systems.  The natural hazards of interest include drought, heatwave, wildfire, flood, earthquake, and compound extremes. Our analysis is at various spatiotemporal scales from catchment- to global-scale and sub-seasonal to decadal scales. Our approach is integrative across disciplines among hydrology, climatology, hydraulics, and social psychology, which we hop will advance our understanding of coupled dynamics of social-natural systems.  

We always keep an eye open on new research collaboration opportunities. If you are interested in our past and 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: 23 August 2023