Thrust Integration Team

Marcelo H. GarciaMarcelo Garcia

Director, Ven Te Chow Hydrosystems Lab
Affiliations: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Phone: (217) 244-4484
Email: mhgarcia@illinois.edu                                                                                   Website: cee.illinois.edu/directory/profile/mhgarcia

Research Interests: Urban Flooding, Modeling of rivers and hydraulic structures, Environmental hydrodynamics, Sediment transport, Oceanic stratified flows

  • M.T. Geoffrey Yeh Endowed Chair in Civil Engineering
  • Director, Ven Te Chow Hydrosystems Laboratory

Zhizhen Zhao

Assistant Professor, UIUC
Affiliations: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Department of Mathematics and Department of Statistics, Coordinated Science Lab, National Center Supercomputing Center Applications (NCSA)
Phone: 217-300-4748
Email: zhizhenz@illinois.edu                                                               Website: https://zhizhenz.ece.illinois.edu/

Research Interests: Geometric data analysis, nonlinear dimensionality reduction, machine learning

Mark D. Butala

Assistant Professor, ZJU
Affiliations: Civil Engineering, ZJU-UIUC INSTITUTE
Phone: +86 571-87572500

Research Interests: Remote Sensing, Image Reconstruction and Tomography, and Statistical Signal and Image Processing Theory and Application

Yueping Xu

Professor, ZJU
Affiliations: Hydraulic Engineering, College of Civil Engineering and Architecture
Phone: +86 571 88981608

Email: yuepingxu@zju.edu.cn                                                                     Website: https://person.zju.edu.cn/en/ypxu

Research Interests: hydrological extreme analysis,  risk assessment and uncertainty analysis of water resource systems, flood simulation in a changing environment, integrated water resources management

  • Outstanding Youths of Zhejiang University
  • The Zhejiang Provincial Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars
  • 151 talents in Zhejiang Province