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PUBLICATIONS
(For most updated publication lists, please refer to Google Scholar or ResearchGate)

Conference Paper, Abstract, Invited Talks

  1. Invited Seminar Speaker at Rice University Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, “Sustainable Reservoir and Hydropower Management: An Integrated Approach to Bridge Advances of Models, Algorithms, and Data with Decision-Making in Production Sectors”, May-21-2018, Host: Department Chair and Prof. Robert Griffin and Prof. Phi Bedient ​

  2. Invited Seminar Speaker at University of Oklahoma Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, “Sustainable Reservoir and Hydropower Management: An Integrated Approach to Bridge Advances of Models, Algorithms, and Data with Decision-Making in Operation Agencies”, April-23-2018, Host: Prof. Yang Hong

  3. Invited Seminar Speaker of the Opening Speech for the CERC-WET seminar series (CERC), “Improving Hydrology and Energy Demand Forecasts for Hydropower Operations with Climate Change”. Aug-2-2017, Host: Carolyn Remick, CERC-WET executive director, Robert Marlay and Diana Bauer from the DOE headquarter.

  4. Invited Seminar Speaker at China Academy of Sciences (CAS), Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research (IGSNRR), “Integration of Education, Research and Industrial Production with in U.S.-China Clean Energy Research Center Water Energy Technology (CERC-WET) Consortium with the Focuses on Hydropower Research and Climate Change”, July-4-2017, Beijing, China. Host: Prof. Qiuhong Tang, and Prof./Academician, Changming Liu (http://www.igsnrr.cas.cn/xwzx/xshd/201707/t20170701_4821188.html) 

  5. Invited Speaker at China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research (IWHR), “Sustainable Hydropower Management and Optimization: Visions from the U.S. Department of Energy and Experiences from the U.S.-China Clean Energy Research Center-Water and Energy Technology (CERC-WET) on Bridging Sciences”, July-5-2017, Beijing, China. Host: Prof./ Senior Scientist Xiaohui Lei (http://www.iwhr.com/zgskyww/ggl/hy/webinfo/2017/06/1498713524076829.htm)

  6. Invited Seminar Speaker at Beijing Normal University (BNU), College of Global Change and Earth System Science (GCESS), “Optimal Reservoir Operation and Impacts of Climate Variability on Water-Energy System: Experience of bridging science and operation”, July-4-2017, Beijing, China. Host: Prof./Chief Scientist, Qingyun Duan. ( http://geo.bnu.edu.cn/xzdt/34611.html)

  7. Invited Speaker at China Meteorological Administration (CMA), National Climate Center (NCC), “The Impacts of Climate Variability on Water-Energy System Operation and Design”, July-6-2017, Beijing, China., Host: Prof./Senior Scientist Chan Xiao.

  8. Invited Speaker at Tus-Qianxing LtD.Co, and Tus-Energy LtD.Co. “The Role of Water Management and Industrial Supports from the International Collaboration U.S-China Clean Energy Research Center Water Energy Technology (CERC-WET)”, July-14-2017, Beijing, China, Host: Zhi Yang, CEO & Senior Engineer. (http://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/a6gTIfhCDWyDNIYc1ZQSjQ)

  9. Invited Speaker to California Energy Commission (CEC) “Improving Hydrologic and Energy Demand Forecasts for Hydropower Operations with Climate Change: Bridge Science and Operation for Reservoir Systems”, June-15,2017, California Energy Commission, Sacramento., Host: Guido Franco, Project Manager & Senior Engineer

  10. Invited Speaker at UC San Diego, Big Data and the Earth Sciences: Grand Challenges Workshop. Title: “Delft-FEWS: A Decision Making Platform to Merge Models, Data, and Optimization for Water Resources Management”, June-1, 2017, University of California, San Diego. Host: Dr. Scott Sellars and Prof. Matin Ralphs. (http://prp.ucsd.edu/BigDataEarthScience_Agenda_052617.pdf)

  11. Invited Seminar Speaker at UCI CEE Department, “A Framework to Provide Optimal Management Strategies for California’s Reservoirs In Achieving Sustainable Water Supply & High Hydropower Productivity”, UCI Samueli School of Engineering Environmental Seminar Series, Irvine, California, U.S., Feb 2016, Host: Prof. Brett Sanders.(http://engineering.uci.edu/events/2016/2/cee-seminar-framework-provide-optimal-management-strategies-california-s-reservoirs)

  12. Oral Presentation to U.S.-Clean Energy Research Center Water Energy Technology (CERC-WET) advisory committee board “Project 3.2 & 3.3  Enhancing Short-term Reservoir and Hydropower operation through advanced Optimization Tools, Decision Making Platform and Precipitation Nowcast Information”, June-6, 2017, University of California Irvine, Host: Prof. Ashok Gadgil and Carolyn Remick

  13. Invited Speaker at U.S. DOE Wind and Water Technology Peer Review Meeting, “CERC-WET Topic 3 Improving Sustainable Hydropower Design and Operation”, Pentagon City. February 2017, Host: Hoyt Battey, Project & Office Manager, (https://energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2017/04/f34/cerc-wet-topic-3-improving-sustainable-hydropower.pdf)

  14. Oral Personation to DOE Wind and Water Power Office, “Delft-FEWS and RTC Tools for decision making support and system optimization”, Silver Spring, Washington D.C. March 2017, Host: Hoyt Battey, Project & Office Manager, and Simon Gore, DOE Fellow.

  15. Oral Personation to NOAA National Weather Service, “Introduction of Deltares RTC Tools 2.0” presented to, Silver Spring, Washington D.C., Oct. 2016, Host: Dr. Edwin Welles, CEO & Chief Hydrologist

  16. Conference Paper with Oral Presentation, “Evaluating the Implications of Climate Phenomenon Indices in Supporting Reservoir Operation Using the Artificial Neural Network and Decision-Tree Methods: A Case Study on Trinity Lake in Northern California”, American Geophysical Union 2016 FALL MEETING, San Francisco, California, U.S., Dec 2016, Host: AGU.

  17. Conference Paper with Oral Presentation, “Simulation of California’s Major Reservoirs Outflow Using decision tree methods and shuffled-cross validation scheme”, American Geophysical Union 2015 FALL MEETING, San Francisco, California, U.S., Dec 2015, Host: AGU.

  18. Conference Paper with Poster Presentation, “Precipitation Nowcast using Deep Recurrent Neural Network”, American Geophysical Union 2016 FALL MEETING, San Francisco, California, U.S., Dec 2016, Host: AGU.

  19. Conference Paper with Poster Presentation, “A New Artificial Neural Network Enhanced by the Shuffled Complex Evolution Optimization with Principal Component Analysis (SP-UCI) for Water Resources Management”, American Geophysical Union 2016 FALL MEETING, San Francisco, California, U.S., Dec 2016, Host: AGU session Chair

  20. Conference Paper with Poster Presentation, “Outflow Simulation of California’s Major Reservoirs Using Artificial Intelligence Techniques” UCI Data Science Initiative 2015, Irvine, California, U.S., May, 2015, Host: Prof. Smith Patrick

  21. Conference Paper with Poster Presentation, “Simulation of California’s Major Reservoirs Outflow Using Classification and Regression Trees” American Geophysical Union 2014 FALL MEETING, San Francisco, California, U.S., Dec 2014, Host: AGU session Chair

  22. Conference Paper with Poster Presentation, “Joint Management of Water and Electricity in California State Water Project Using Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithm: A Case Study of Oroville-Thermalito Complex”, American Geophysical Union 2013 FALL MEETING, San Francisco, California, U.S., Dec 2014, Host: AGU session Chair

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