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Research interests

Computational Hydrology & Hydraulics, Disturbance Hydrology, Environmental Fluid Mechanics, Sediment Transport, River Dynamics, Fluvial Geomophology, Computational Fluid Dynamics, High Performance Computing

Education

• Ph.D. in Water Resources Engineering & Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2022
• M.S. in Environmental Engineering, Michigan State University, 2014
• B.S. in Geosciences with Geology specialization, Nanjing University, 2012

Research experience

• 2022 - : Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
  • Postdoctoral Research Associate
• 2016 - 2022: Ven Te Chow Hydrosystems Laboratory, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  • Graduate Research Assistant
• 2014 - 2016: Environmental Fluid Mechanics Laboratory, University of Pittsburgh
  • Graduate Research Assistant
• 2012 - 2014: Groundwater Modeling Laboratory, Michigan State University
  • Graduate Research Assistant
• 2010 - 2012: MOE Key Laboratory of Surficial Geochemistry, Nanjing University
  • Undergraduate Research Assistant

Skills

• Geophysical flow, reactive tranport, and sediment transport modeling: ATS, PFLOTRAN, TELEMAC & SISYPHE, Delft3D, HEC-RAS
• CFD & meshing: FLOW-3D, OpenFOAM, Fluent, ANSYS Meshing, Gmsh
• Programming languages (scientific computing oriented): Python, Fortran, C/C++, Octave/Matlab
• Scientific visualization: ParaView, VisIt, Tecplot, BlueKenue, Python-Matplotlib, R
• GIS & CAD: ArcGIS, AutoCAD, Civil 3D
• HPC: Rich experience in deploying HPC projects on AWS EC2, campus clusters and supercomputers
• Cloud computing: AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner