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University of Delaware
Yao Hu

Yao Hu

Assistant Professor

Placeholder bio — to be replaced with Dr. Hu's own first-person research statement.

Dr. Yao Hu leads the Water Intelligence Lab at the University of Delaware. His work develops physics-based and machine-learning models of water systems, decision-making frameworks such as agent-based modeling, and the cyber-infrastructure needed to study the co-evolution of coupled human and water systems.

Research interests

Socio-hydrology · Agent-based modeling · Food–Energy–Water Nexus · Model coupling and integration · Water system modeling, analysis, and optimization · Causal inference · HPC and cloud computing · Data science and cyber-infrastructure.

Appointments

  • Department of Geography and Spatial Sciences, College of Earth, Ocean & Environment
  • Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering
  • Engineering and Public Policy Program

Education

  • Ph.D., Civil Engineering — University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2016
  • M.S., Environmental Engineering — Hamburg University of Technology, Germany, 2010
  • B.Eng., Civil Engineering & Computer Science — Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China, 2006

Office

217A Pearson Hall, 125 Academy Street, Newark, DE 19716