Hydrosystems faculty
Ensuring future water needs
Our faculty work collaboratively to ensure future water needs through water resources engineering, infrastructure sustainability, hydrologic modeling as well as resilience, couple human and natural systems, numerical modeling.
Research interests include hydrology, water system modeling, hydroinformatics, aerial and satellite remote sensing, multi-scale urban climate modeling, land-atmospheric interactions, landscape and infrastructure management, urban environmental sustainability study and energy efficiency analysis.
Our faculty are recognized experts in their fields in numerical modeling of watershed processes, eco-hydrology and hydro-meteorology of semiarid regions, applications of environmental sensing technologies, climate and land use change impacts on water resources, stakeholder engagement and decision making support, numerical simulation of groundwater flow and solute transport, uncertainty quantification and applications of machine learning in hydrology.
Faculty are also known for their research in stochastic hydrology, watershed modeling, hydroclimatology and the food-water-energy nexus
Margaret Garcia
Associate Professor
School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment
Garcia investigates factors influencing the sustainability and resilience of urban water supply systems by advancing the theory of coupled systems and translating theory into actionable models to support infrastructure.
Saurav Kumar
Assistant Professor
School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment
Kumar is interested in developing methods that integrate disparate data streams. His work is on developing models for water systems, integrating aerial and satellite remote sensing with models, and hyperspectral image acquisition and processing.
Giuseppe Mascaro
Associate Professor
School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment
Dr. Mascaro’s research interests stochastic hydrology, watershed modeling, hydroclimatology, climate change, infrastructure modeling, and the food-water-energy nexus.
Enrique Vivoni
Professor
School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment
Vivoni researches modeling of watershed processes, eco-hydrology and hydro-meteorology of semiarid regions, environmental sensing technologies applications, climate and land use change impacts and stakeholder engagement.
Zhihua Wang
Associate Professor
School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment
Wang’s research interests include multiscale urban climate modeling, land-atmospheric interactions, landscape and infrastructure management, urban environmental sustainability study and energy efficiency analysis.
Tianfang Xu
Assistant Professor
School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment
Xu’s research focuses on numerical simulation of groundwater flow and solute transport, uncertainty quantification and applications of machine learning in geoscience.
Ruijie Zeng
Assistant Professor
School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment
Zeng works on enhancing mechanistic understanding, predictable capability, hydrologic modeling and sustainable management of watersheds.