HE XIAOGANG is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow of the “Water in the West” programme at Stanford University, and he will join the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the National University of Singapore in July 2020. Xiaogang is a Princeton-trained Ph.D. Hydrologist with experience in economics, machine learning and environmental policy. His research interests focus on the fundamental understanding of how climate change, variability and human interventions affect drought and flood risk across scales, and how to implement an integrative framework to reduce their societal impact. He received his M.A. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Princeton University; M.E. in Civil Engineering from the University of Tokyo; B.Eng in Hydraulic Engineering and B.Sc (School of Economics and Management) from Tsinghua University.Xiaogang has received a number of accolades, including the Science, Technology and Environmental Policy (STEP) fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton Energy and Climate Scholars (PECS) from the Princeton Environmental Institute, and the Young Scientists Summer Program (YSSP) fellowship from the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA).
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