Education
City University of Hong Kong
Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering, advised by Zhiguo Yuan.
Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering, advised by Zhiguo Yuan.
Fall 2024 - Spring 2026
Tongji University
D. Eng. in Environmental Engineering, advised by Zhenliang Liao
D. Eng. in Environmental Engineering, advised by Zhenliang Liao
Fall 2020 - Spring 2026
Tongji University
B. Eng. in Environmental Engineering
B. Eng. in Environmental Engineering
Fall 2016 - Spring 2020
Employment
Ewaters
Project Engineering Intern. GIS support for water environment projects. Python development in modelling urban water systems with SWMM.
Project Engineering Intern. GIS support for water environment projects. Python development in modelling urban water systems with SWMM.
June 2020 - Aug 2020
Shanghai, China
Shanghai, China
Publications
Graph neural network-based surrogate modelling for real-time hydraulic prediction of urban drainage networks
Control-oriented real-time modelling of drainage flow routing with a spatio-temporal GNN model with physics-guided hydraulic regulations.
Water Research, 2024
Towards coordinated and robust real-time control: a decentralized approach for combined sewer overflow and urban flooding reduction based on multi-agent reinforcement learning
Using multi-agent reinforcement learning to control multiple drainage valves and pumps with real-time communication fail-safe performance.
Water Research, 2023
Comparison of Real-time Control Methods for CSO Reduction with Two Evaluation Indices: Computing Load Rate and Double Baseline Normalized Distance
Compare rule-based control, model predictive control, and reinforcement learning control in computing load and normalized performance.
Water Resources Management, 2022
An integrated assessment of urban flooding risk and resilience based on spatial grids
Assess both risk and resilience with 1D2D modelling and threshold classifications.
Urban Water Journal, 2025
A 'Prediction - Detection - Judgment' framework for sudden water contamination event detection with online monitoring
Detect contamination timely and accurately from monitoring data considering water quality baseline and possible anomalies.
Journal of Enviornmental Management, 2024
Source identification of water distribution system contamination based on simulated annealing-particle swarm optimization algorithm
Avoid local optima problem and ensure effcient locatilization of contaminated sources in WDS combining SA and PSO.
Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 2024
Improving the interpretability of deep reinforcement learning in urban drainage system operation
Interpret the learned control policy of DRL with Sobol, tree-based logics, and conditional distributions.
Water Research, 2024
Flooding and overflow mitigation using deep reinforcement learning based on Koopman operator of urban drainage systems
Training a Koopman emulator of urban drainage dynamis for reinforcement learning control.
Water Resources Research, 2022
Combined Sewer Overflow and Flooding Mitigation Through a Reliable Real-Time Control Based on Multi-Reinforcement Learning and Model Predictive Control
RL agents' decisions are action votes and further evaluated in real time to improve reliability and safety.
Water Resources Research, 2022
Flooding mitigation through safe & trustworthy reinforcement learning
Safe learning control of urban drainage systems with a robust reward function.
Journal of Hydrology, 2023
Enhancing interpretability and generalizability of deep learning-based emulator in three-dimensional lake hydrodynamics using Koopman operator and transfer learning: Demonstrated on the example of lake Zurich
Learning a 3D hydrodynamic lake model from monitoring data using Koopman operator and transfer learning.
Water Research, 2024
The Use of Attention-Enhanced CNN-LSTM Models for Multi-Indicator and Time-Series Predictions of Surface Water Quality
Use spatial and temporal attention mechanisms to enhance CNN-LSTM models for predicting surface water quality.
Water Resources Management, 2024
Transformer Networks and Loss with Punishment for Optimized Management of Urban Water Supply System
Use transformer networks and loss with punishment to optimize management of urban water supply system.
ACS ES&T Water, 2025