News

Upcoming Event:

• Presenting at the EGU conference in Vienna, Austria (04/27–05/02/2025).
• Serving as a co-chair for the 2025 Berkeley Postdoctoral Association Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion group.

New publication:

• Accepted for publication in Journal of Hydroinformatics: “Development of a Reservoir Operation Model for Determining Pre-Release Strategies During Flood Events” to the Journal of Hydroinformatics. [03/17/2025]
• Published a journal article titled “Environmental Planning and the Evolution of Inter-Basin Water Transfers in the United States” in Frontiers in Environmental Science. [11/11/2024]
• Published a journal article titled “Reservoir-based flood forecasting and warning: deep learning versus machine learning” in Applied Water Science. [10/15/2024]
• Published a journal article titled “Groundwater Level Forecasting Using Machine Learning: A Case Study of the Baekje Weir in the Four Major Rivers Project, South Korea” in Water Resources Research. [05/06/2024]
• Published a journal article titled “Water Transfer Energy Efficiency Index for Inter-Basin Water Transfer Projects” in Water and Environment Journal. [05/02/2024]
• Published a journal article titled “Development of an Optimal Water Allocation Model for Reservoir System Operation” in Water. [10/12/2023]

Publication submission:

• Under review, a manuscript titled “Developing resilient reservoir system operations: A simulation approach incorporating rule curve” by the Water Resources Management [1/9/2025]
• Under review, a manuscript titled “Machine Learning and Deep Learning Approaches for Predicting Flow Duration Curve in Ungauged Basins” by the Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. [11/03/2024]
• Under review, a manuscript titled “Improving Predictions of Streamflow in Ungauged Basins: Application of Deep Learning Algorithms” to Applied Water Science, now under second-round review. [10/09/2024]

Education:

• Launched UC Water Academy seminar series in the spring and invite postdocs, graduate students, and undergraduate students to participate. [1/21/2025]
• Participated in organizing the first UCWA 2025 cass planning meeting [11/4/2024]
• Participated in the launch meeting for the California Water Management Policy Course. [09/16/2024]
• Led the UC Water Academy Final Project and Presentation. [09/10/2024]
• Led the UC Water Academy Field Trip, an intensive week-long tour of California’s water system, including visits to key water infrastructure projects and meetings with experts from various water management sectors. The itinerary featured Yosemite National Park, Hetch Hetchy Reservoir, Central Valley, the Sacramento-San Francisco Bay Delta, and a 3-day rafting trip on the Tuolumne River. [07/27 - 08/02/2024]

Meeting:

• Participated in the COEQWAL Salmon Use Case Public Meeting [11/12/2024]
• Participated in the COEQWAL Research Team Meeting in Davis, CA. [10/18-19/2024]
• Participated in the COEQWAL Advisory Cohort Workshop. [09/13/2024]
• Participated in the COEQWAL Integration Team Meeting in Davis, CA. [06/21/2024]

Conference:

• Served as a co-chair for the 2025 AGU Hydro-JDEI group at the AGU conference in New Orleans, Louisiana (12/15–12/19/2025).
• Submitted an abstract titled “Assessing Environmental Flows in the Central Valley Across Different Management Scenarios” for the EGU conference in Vienna, Austria, [04/27 - 05/02/2025].
• Attended the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Conference in Washington, D.C. [12/9-13/2024]
• Presented at the Bay-Delta Science Conference. [10/02/2024]
• Submitted an abstract titled “Integrated Modeling of Hydrologic Processes at the Watershed Scale” for the “2025 Symposium on Hydro-climate and Climate Change (Watershed)” session at the EWRI conference in Anchorage, AK, 2025. [09/18/2024]
• Attended the “International Conference on Water Pollution and Treatment” in Berlin, Germany. [07/21 - 07/23/2024]
• Submitted an abstract titled “Evaluating Environmental Flows in the Central Valley Under Various Management Scenarios” for the AGU conference in Washington D.C., December 2024. [07/23/2024]
• Submitted an abstract titled “Assessment of Environmental Flows Under Different Management Scenarios in the Central Valley” for the Biennial Bay-Delta Science Conference in Sacramento, CA, October 2024. [06/08/2024]

Event:

• Organized the Berkeley Postdoctoral Association (BPA) Welcome Event: Celebrating Diversity and Inclusion [11/14/2024]
• Moderated the “Postdoc Alumni Career Panel” event as part of the “Berkeley Postdoctoral Appreciation Week (NPAW).” [09/20/2024]
• Participated in the Berkeley Postdoctoral Association board meeting to finalize the budget for 2024–2025. [09/17/2024]

Career:

• Started a postdoctoral researcher position with Prof. Ted Grantham in the ESPM Department at UC Berkeley. [03/01/2024]