Yaoping Wang Email & Phone Number

Co-organizer of a Soil Moisture Working Group under the Reducing Uncertainty in Biogeochemical Interactions through Synthesis and Computation (RUBISCO) Scientific Focus Area (SFA).Discovered significant urban-rural difference in vegetation resilience to heat waves via statistical analysis of remote sensing imagery and identified the main underlying drivers.

Knoxville, Tennessee Area

Faculty of record for Applied Data Science (IE 465/565), which introduced students to machine learning methods and their applications for engineering problems (https://github.com/ypwong22/IE465_jupyter_notebooks/).Instructed and provided oversight to a PhD colleague on setting up and running a hydrological model (CWatM, in Python), and on using principal.

Scraped power plant emissions data from the APIs of the U.S. and Taiwan Environmental Protection Agencies using the Python requests, sqlachemy, and geopandas packages, and archived data in a google cloud database.

Calibrated and performed simulations with the CWatM hydrological model in the Indus River Basin

Developed hourly electricity load forecast models for two transmission zones in the U.S. with improved definitions of heating and cooling degree days and segmented autoregressive-moving average regression. Demonstrated flaws in two popular statistical methods for downscaling precipitation by implementing and testing the methods on weather stations data and.

Quantified the future water scarcity risk to coal-fired power plants in developing Asia by connecting climate model projections, hydrological simulation outcomes, and an energy-and-heat balance model.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd

Bachelor'S Degree, Environmental Science