• Research projects:1) Regional flood hazard assessment adaptable to global environmental change: A hybrid mechanistic-empirical modeling framework ($2,571,000 NTD funded by MOST 109-2221-E-005-001-MY3)2) Climate-smart adaptation algorithm on establishing interdisciplinary risk assessment and dynamic adaptation pathways ($2,912,000 NTD funded by MOST 108-2621-M-005-008-MY3)3) Taiwan typhoon catastrophe model: Typhoon characteristic analysis, loss prediction, and risk assessment ($720,000 NTD funded by MOST 107-2625-M-005-001-) 4) Interactions between Taiwan's land-use/cover change and regional atmospheric and hydro-meterological modeling and large-scale climate variability ($2,483,000 NTD funded by MOST 105-2621-M-005-004-MY3)5) Hydro-climatic forecasting for East and Southeast Asia—methodology and integrated modeling ($901,000 NTD funded by MOST 106-2625-M-005-004-)6) Hydro-climatic forecasting for East and Southeast Asia—teleconnection patterns, methodology, and integrated modeling ($1,687,000 NTD funded by MOST 104-2625-M-005-007-MY2)• Teaching: Undergraduate courses: Engineering Statistics, Fluid Mechanics, Hydraulic Engineering, Climate Change and Environmental ImpactGraduate courses: Analysis of Water Resources System, Applied Statistics, Random Data Analysis, Seminar on Hydraulic Engineering• Service:Associate editor of Weather and Forecasting (WAF by AMS)Reviewer of BAMS, EMAS, ENVSOFT, ERL, HEENG, JAMC, JAWRA, JCLI, JHM, JHYDRO, JTECH, MWR, PAWE, WARM, WAF, WATER, WRENG, WRR, etc.

Visiting scholar at NOAA to work with Global Systems Laboratory (GSL) scientists on a research project pertaining to• Exploration of the Rapid Refresh Forecasting System (RRFS) in Taiwan's hydrometeorological studies• Assessment of a convective-allowing Finite-Volume Cubed-Sphere Limited-Area Model (FV3-LAM) over Taiwan • Application of ML/AI techniques on precipitation post-processing/correction

• Developing a tropical cyclone (TC) stochastic catalog in the South-West Indian Ocean (SWIO) basin• Developing TC hazard modules (wind and flood) for the SWIO countries• Supporting & reviewing the development of the non-TC-induced flood module for the SWIO countries• Investigating landslide hazards in one of the SWIO countries

• Developing hydrological models for stochastic flood modeling in Southeast Asian countries (e.g., Vietnam, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Taiwan)• Assessing uncertainty in precipitation and hydrological modeling in the Mekong River Basin• Developing algorithms to restructure satellite-based precipitation (e.g., CMORPH) using gauge-based data (e.g., APHRODITE) for various applications (e.g., precipitation validation and hydrological modeling) • Collaborating on configuring and monitoring Community Atmospheric Model (CAM) / Weather and Research Forecast (WRF) runs on a Linux cluster for the generation of 10,000 years (10k) of precipitation• Conducting and researching on statistical downscaling of CAM/WRF 10k precipitation• Supporting hydraulic engineers to simulate flood extent (fluvial and pluvial) using 1-D and 2-D hydrodynamic models• Validating and modifying the tropical cyclone-induced flood module of AIR's next generation typhoon model and the associated vulnerability and loss calculation modules for Southeast Asian countries• Identifying flood events resulting from TRMM-based non-tropical cyclone-induced rainfall and calculating the associated economic losses using industrial and governmental exposure database• Coordinating with interdisciplinary groups (meteorologists, hydrologists, hydraulic engineers, GIS specialists, structure engineers, seismologists, and business development managers) for developing multi-peril modeling, and the associated vulnerability and finance modules, and for writing technical proposals and project reports• Presenting catastrophe modeling results to internal stakeholders, external collaborators (e.g., Swiss Re and Asian Disaster Preparedness Center), clients (e.g., World Bank and Asian Development Bank), and independent peer reviewers (e.g., GeoScience Australia)

• Integrated hydro-climatic forecasting and water resources management, sponsored by Georgia Water Resources Institute.• Apalachicola Chattahoochee Flint (ACF) sustainable water management plan—I. ACF unimpaired flow review and assessment; II. instream flow and lake levels assessment, sponsored by Black and Veatch Corporation and ACF Stakeholders.• Assessment of climate change impact on Southeast U.S. and African water resources, sponsored by Georgia Water Resources Institute.• Instructor assistance for graduate courses (e.g., CEE 6231 Probability and Statistics) and oversight of Ph.D. students.

• Hydro-climatic forecasting using sea surface temperatures, Ph.D. dissertation.• Establishing research strategies for natural disaster focusing on hydrometeorology and hydroclimatology, recipient of Taiwan Merit Scholarships, sponsored by National Science Council in Taiwan.

CEE 4210 Hydrology

CEE 6231 Probability and Statistics (Statistical Hydrology)

• Developing an atmospheric-pattern-based flood hazard module, sponsored by the National Science Council in Taiwan.• Developing a climate change and extreme weather monitoring and forecasting system, sponsored by the Central Weather Bureau in Taiwan.

Inverse analysis of identifying groundwater contaminant source and its release history along with optimizing dispersivity spatial patterns, Master thesis.

BSE2016: Fluid Mechanics Laboratory