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Yi Zheng

2020-03-05

Education

Degree                           Institution                   Date Degree Granted

PhD in Environmental Science     University of California, Santa Barbara        March, 2007

MS in Environmental Science      Peking University                         June, 2002

BS in Environmental Science       Peking University                         June, 2000

BA in Economics (double degree)   Peking University                         June, 2000

Positions/Employment

02/2018- present     Professor and Associate Dean, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology

01/2016- 01/2018    Associate Professor and Associate Dean, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology

07/2007-12/2015     Assistant Professor, Associate Professor and Associate Department Head, Department of Energy and Resources Engineering, Peking University

01/2007-07/2007   Water Resources Engineer, Systech Water Resources, Inc., San Ramon, California, USA

Current Membership in Professional Organizations

  • American Water Resources Association (AWRA)
  • American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

 

HONORS AND AWARDS

Research

  • Excellent Young Investigator Award, National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), 2016.
  • The honors of Editor’s Highlights and issue cover, Water Resources Research, 2014.
  • Annual Excellent Paper Award, Journal of Agro-Environment Science, 2010.
  • University of California’s Graduate Division Dissertation Fellowship, 2006.
  • University of California’s Toxic Substances Research and Teaching Program Fellowship, 2005.

Teaching

  • Distinguished Teaching Award, Southern University of Science and Technology, 2017.
  • Outstanding Teaching Award, Peking University, 2014.
  • FOUNDER Award for Excellent Faculty Members, Peking University, 2011.
  • Second prize of the 6th University Teaching Competition for Junior Faculty Members, Peking University, 2008.

Service

  • Distinguished Service Award, Southern University of Science and Technology, 2018.
  • First Prize of Educational Achievement, Peking University, 2012.

 

RESEARCH

Leadership

  • Shenzhen Engineering Lab of Environmental Internet of Things (EIoT) Technologies

In October 2017, Dr. Yi Zheng’s proposal to establish this Lab was approved by the Development and Reform Commission of Shenzhen Municipality. A startup fund of ¥5,000,000  has been provided by the Shenzhen City to support the Lab, starting from 2018. Dr. Yi Zheng is the Lab Director and lead its development. This Lab is one of the few government-funded engineering labs currently in China which focus on EIoT.

While mainly based on the School of Environmental Science and Engineering, the Lab will bring together research groups from different departments of SUSTech, as well as from outside of SUSTech, and strive for promoting cross-disciplinary innovation. It aims to develop cutting-edge EIoT technologies by integrating new environmental sensing technologies, advanced environmental modeling approaches, artificial intelligence, and environmental big data. The technologies will be applied to tackle critical environmental issues such as early warning of algae blooms in reservoirs and bays and emergency handling in environmental disasters (e.g., illegal emissions, spills, landslides, and floods).

  • Capacity building initiative for research and teaching on environmental protection and high-efficiency resources utilization

In September 2017, the Development and Reform Commission of Shenzhen Municipality approved Dr. Yi Zheng’s proposal to enhance the research and teaching capacity of SUSTech on environmental protection and high-efficiency resources utilization. The Shenzhen City will provide ¥10,000,000 in the following three years to support scientific studies and curriculum development related to industrial ecology and circular economy.

Grants and Contracts

External Sources Received at SUSTech

  • Optimization of the mountain-water-forest-field-lake-grass system in Qilian Mountain: an integrated modeling study, Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences (XDA2010010404), PI, ¥2,000,000, 2018-2022.
  • Water resources modeling and management, NSFC Excellent Young Investigator Award project (No. 41622111), PI, ¥1,500,000, 2017-2019.
  • Water, energy and environment nexus of rivers in southwestern China and the system resilience, key project of the NSFC Major Research Initiative “Variation and adaptive use of the runoff in the source region of southwestern rivers” (No. 91647201), Co-Investigator, directing ¥1,000,000, 2017-2020.
  • Spatial optimization for low impact development design, SSTIC research project (No. JCYJ20160530190411804), PI, ¥300,000, 2017-2018.
  • Shenzhen Peacock Talents Research Grant from SSTIC, PI, ¥5,000,000, 2016-2018.

External Sources Received at PKU

  • Nonpoint source pollution process of PAHs in urbanized areas: mechanism and modeling approach, NSFC regular project (No. 41371473), PI, ¥750,000, 2014-2017.
  • System behaviors and regulation of ecohydrological processes in the middle and lower Heihe River Basin, integrative project of the NSFC Major Research Initiative “Integrated research on the eco-hydrological processes in the Heihe River Basin” (No. 91225301), Co-investigator, directing ¥600,000, 2013-2016.
  • Risk assessment and decision support research on technologies and strategies for the development of regional circular economy, the National Science & Technology Pillar Program administrated by MOST (No. 2012BAC03B02), Co-Investigator, directing ¥1,000,000, 2012-2015.
  • Integrated surface water-groundwater modeling for the Heihe Basin and its uncertainty, regular project of the NSFC Major Research Initiative “Integrated research on the eco-hydrological processes in the Heihe River Basin” (No. 91125021), PI, ¥800,000, 2012-2014.
  • Study on the uncertainty in distributed simulation of watershed nonpoint source pollution, NSFC Young Investigator project (No. 50909001), PI, ¥210,000, 2010-2012.
  • Integrated water resources modeling and its uncertainty analysis for coastal watersheds under climate and land use changes, NSFC-DFG (Germany) Joint Research (No. 50911130509), Co-Investigator, directing ¥220,000, 2010-2012.
  • Mediation and management mechanisms of trans-jurisdictional water pollution in China: a pilot study, the National Special Program on Water Pollution Control and Management administrated by MOST (No. 2009ZX07632-001-05), Co-Investigator, directing ¥560,000, 2009-2011.
  • Technologies of integrated pollution prevention and control for the heavy metal contamination in the Xiangjiang River, the National Special Program on Water Pollution Control and Management administrated by MOST (No. 2009ZX07212-001-07), Co-Investigator, directing ¥370,000, 2009-2011.
  • Systematic assessment and decision-support approaches for the development of circular economy in China, the National Science & Technology Pillar Program administrated by MOST (2009BAC64B02), Co-Investigator, directing ¥610,000, 2009-2011.
  • Barriers assessment and integrated policy development of critical energy-saving technologies promotion, The Energy Foundation (No. G-0911-11672), PI, ¥580,000, 2009-2010.

Publications

(Note: * indicates that Prof. Yi Zheng is the correspondent author, and # indicates that the first author is a graduate student or post-doc advised by Prof. Yi Zheng.)

Books or Monographs

  • Zheng Y*, Han F, Tian Y, Wu B, Lin Z (2014). Addressing the uncertainty in modeling watershed nonpoint source pollution. In Jorgensen SE, Chang N and Xu F (Eds), Advances in ecological modelling and engineering - lakes and wetlands (Chapter 5, p113-p159). Elsevier, ISBN: 978-0-444-63249-4.

Refereed Journal Articles (in English)

  1. Mao G, Liu J, Han F, Meng Y, Tian Y, Zheng Y, Zheng C (2019). Assessing the interlinkage of green and blue water in an arid catchment in Northwest China, Environmental geochemistry and health, 1-21.
  2. Chen C, Tian Y, Zhang YK, He X, Yang X, Liang X, Zheng Y, Han F, Zheng C, Yang C (2019). Effects of agricultural activities on the temporal variations of streamflow: trends and long memory, Stoch Environ Res Risk Assess. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00477-019-01714-x.
  3. Niu G#, Zheng Y*, Han F, Qin H (2019). The nexus of water, ecosystems and agriculture in arid areas: A multiobjective optimization study on system efficiencies, Agricultural Water Management, 223: 105697.
  4. Yu C, Wei S#, Zhang Y, Zheng Y, Yu Z, Donahoe R, Wei H (2019). Quantifying colloid fate and transport through dense vegetation and soil systems using a particle-plugging tempered fractional-derivative model, Journal of contaminant hydrology, 224:103484.
  5. Zhao X#, Qiu W*, Zheng Y*, Xiong J, Gao C, Hu S (2019). Occurrence, distribution, bioaccumulation, and ecological risk of bisphenol analogues, parabens and their metabolites in the Pearl River Estuary, South China, Ecotoxicology and environmental safety, 180: 43-52.
  6. Jiang S#, Babovic V, Zheng Y*, Xiong J (2019). Advancing opportunistic sensing in hydrology: a novel approach to measuring rainfall with ordinary surveillance cameras, Water Resources Research, 55(4): 3004-3027. [Eos Research Spotlight]
  7. Xu P#, Liao Y, Zheng Y*, Zhao C, Zhang X, Zheng Z, Luan S (2019). Northward shift of historical methane emission hotspots from the livestock sector in China and assessment of potential mitigation options, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 272: 1-11
  8. Chen X, Xu B, Zheng Y*, Zhang C* (2019). Nexus of water, energy and ecosystems in the upper Mekong River: A system analysis of phosphorus transport through cascade reservoirs, Science of The Total Environment, 671: 1179-1191.
  9. Li X, Gentine P, Lin C, Zhou S, Sun Z, Zheng Y, Liu J, Zheng C (2019). A simple and objective method to partition evapotranspiration into transpiration and evaporation at eddy-covariance sites, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 265: 171-182.
  10. Feng L, Hou X, Zheng Y (2019). Monitoring and understanding the water transparency changes of fifty large lakes on the Yangtze Plain based on long-term MODIS observations, Remote Sensing of Environment, 221: 675-686.
  11. Qiu W, Zheng M, Sun J, Tian Y, Fang M, Zheng Y, Zhang T, Zheng C (2019). Photolysis of enrofloxacin, pefloxacin and sulfaquinoxaline in aqueous solution by UV/H2O2, UV/Fe (II), and UV/H2O2/Fe (II) and the toxicity of the final reaction solutions on zebrafish embryos, Science of The Total Environment, 651: 1457-1468.
  12. Joo J, Tian Y, Zheng C, Zheng Y, Sun Z, Zhang A, Chang H (2018). An Integrated Modeling Approach to Study the Surface Water-Groundwater Interactions and Influence of Temporal Damping Effects on the Hydrological Cycle in the Miho Catchment in South Korea, Water, 10(11): 1529.
  13. Jiang S#, Zheng Y*, Babovic V, Tian Y, Han F (2018). A computer vision-based approach to fusing spatiotemporal data for hydrological modeling, Journal of Hydrology, 567: 25-40.
  14. Sun Z#, Zheng Y*, Li X, Tian Y, Han F, Zhong Y, Liu J, Zheng C (2018). The Nexus of Water, Ecosystems, and Agriculture in Endorheic River Basins: A System Analysis Based on Integrated Ecohydrological Modeling, Water Resources Research, https://doi.org/10.1029/2018WR023364.
  15. Tian Y, Xiong J, He X, Pi X, Jiang S, Han F, Zheng Y* (2018). Joint operation of surface water and groundwater reservoirs to address water conflicts in arid regions: An integrated modeling study, Water, 10(8), 1105.
  16. Yao Y, Tian Y, Andrews C, Li X, Zheng Y, Zheng C (2018). Role of Groundwater in the Dryland Ecohydrological System: A Case Study of the Heihe River Basin, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 123(13): 6760-6776.
  17. Jiang J, Han F, Zheng Y, Wang N, Yuan Y (2018). Inverse uncertainty characteristics of pollution source identification for river chemical spill incidents by stochastic analysis, Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering, 12(5): 6.
  18. Mo J, Yang Q, Zhang N, Zhang W, Zheng Y, Zhang Z (2018). A review on agro-industrial waste (AIW) derived adsorbents for water and wastewater treatment, Journal of environmental management, 227:395-405.
  19. Feng L, Hou X, Li J, Zheng Y (2018). Exploring the potential of Rayleigh-corrected reflectance in coastal and inland water applications: A simple aerosol correction method and its merits, ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 146: 52-64.
  20. Li X, Cheng G, Ge Y, Li H, Han F, Hu X, Tian W, Tian Y, Pan X, Nian Y, Zhang Y, Ran Y, Zheng Y, Gao B, Yang D, Zheng C, Wang S, Liu S, Cai X (2018). Hydrological cycle in the Heihe River Basin and its implication for water resource management in endorheic basins, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 123:890–914.
  21. Tian Y, Zheng Y*, Han F, Zheng C, Li X (2018). A comprehensive graphical modeling platform designed for integrated hydrological simulation, Environmental Modelling & Software, 108: 154–173.
  22. Han F#, Zheng Y* (2018). Joint analysis of input and parametric uncertainties in watershed water quality modeling: A formal Bayesian approach, Advances in Water Resources, 116: 77-94.
  23. Feng D#, Zheng Y*, Mao Y, Zhang A, Wu B, Li J, Tian Y, Wu X (2018). An integrated hydrological modeling approach for detection and attribution of climatic and human impacts on coastal water resources, Journal of Hydrology, 557: 305-320.
  24. Qiu W, Shao H, Lei P, Zheng C, Qiu C, Yang M*, Zheng Y* (2018). Immunotoxicity of bisphenol S and F are similar to that of bisphenol A during zebrafish early development, Chemosphere, 194: 1-8.
  25. Shi B, Jiang J, Sivakumar B, Zheng Y, Wang P (2018). Quantitative design of emergency monitoring network for river chemical spills based on discrete entropy theory, Water Research, 134: 140-152.
  26. Zheng Y, Zhang W, Tang B, Bin L, Ding J, Zheng Y, Zhang Z (2018). Membrane fouling mechanism of biofilm-membrane bioreactor (BF-MBR): Pore blocking model and membrane cleaning, Bioresource Technology, 250: 398-405.
  27. Wang L, Liang W, Chen W, Zhang W, Mo J, Liang K, Tang B, Zheng Y, Jiang F (2018). Integrated aerobic granular sludge and membrane process for enabling municipal wastewater treatment and reuse water production, Chemical Engineering Journal, 337: 300-311.
  28. Khan A, Jiang J, Wang P, Zheng Y (2017). Influence of topographic and socio-economic attributes on the climate sensitivity of global river water quality, Environmental Research Letters, 12: 104012.
  29. Yao Y, Zheng C, Andrews C, Zheng Y, Zhang A, Liu J (2017). What controls the partitioning between baseflow and mountain block recharge in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau? Geophysical Research Letters, 44: 8352-8358. [GRL’s issue cover article]
  30. Wu X#, Zheng Y*, Zhang J, Wu B, Wang S, Tian Y, Li J, Meng X (2017). Investigating hydrochemical groundwater processes in an inland agricultural area with limited data: a clustering approach, Water, 9, 723; doi:10.3390/w9090723.
  31. Li X#, Zheng Y*, Sun Z, Tian Y, Zheng C, Liu J, Liu S, Xu Z (2017). An integrated ecohydrological modeling approach to exploring the dynamic interaction between groundwater and phreatophytes, Ecological Modelling, 356: 127-140.
  32. Li J#, Zheng Y*, Luo X, Lin Z, Zhang W, Wang X (2016). PAHs contamination in Beijing’s topsoil: a unique indicator of the megacity’s evolving energy consumption and environmental quality, Scientific Reports, 6: 33245.
  33. Han F#, Zheng Y* (2016). Multiple-response Bayesian calibration of watershed water quality models with significant input and model structure errors, Advances in Water Resources, 88: 109-123.
  34. Wu X#, Zheng Y*, Wu B, Tian Y, Han F, Zheng C (2016). Optimizing conjunctive use of surface water and groundwater for irrigation to address human-nature water conflicts: a surrogate modeling approach, Agricultural Water Management, 163: 380-392.
  35. Zheng Y*, Luo X, Zhang W, Wu X, Zhang J, Han F (2016). Transport mechanisms of soil-bound mercury in the erosion process during rainfall-runoff events, Environmental Pollution, 215: 10-17.
  36. Tian Y#, Zheng Y*, Zheng C (2016). Development of a 3D visualization tool for integrated surface water and groundwater modeling, Computers & Geosciences, 86: 1-14.
  37. Zheng Y*, Han F (2016). Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) uncertainty analysis for watershed water quality modeling and management, Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, 301: 291-308.
  38. Tian Y#, Zheng Y*, Zheng C, Xiao H, Fan W, Zou S, Wu B, Yao Y, Zhang A, Liu J (2015). Exploring scale-dependent ecohydrological responses in a large endorheic river basin through integrated surface water-groundwater modeling, Water Resources Research, 51: 4065-4085.
  39. Wu B#, Zheng Y*, Wu X, Tian Y, Han F, Liu J, Zheng C (2015). Optimizing water resources management in large river basins with integrated surface water-groundwater modeling: a surrogate-based approach, Water Resources Research, 51: 2153-2173. [Featured Article of WRR]
  40. Tian Y#, Zheng Y*, Wu B, Wu X, Liu J, Zheng C (2015). Modeling surface water-groundwater interaction in arid and semi-arid regions with intensive agriculture, Environmental Modelling & Software, 63: 170-184.
  41. Luo X#, Zheng Y*, Lin Z, Wu B, Han F, Tian Y, Zhang W, Wang X (2015). Evaluating potential non-point source loading of PAHs from contaminated soils: A fugacity-based modeling approach, Environmental Pollution, 196: 1-11.
  42. Yao Y, Zheng C*, Tian Y, Liu J, Zheng Y (2015). Numerical modeling of regional groundwater flow in the Heihe River Basin, China: Advances and new insights, Science China Earth Sciences, 58: 3-15.
  43. Wu B#, Zheng Y*, Tian Y, Wu X, Yao Y, Han F, Liu J, Zheng C (2014). Systematic assessment of the uncertainty in integrated surface water-groundwater modeling based on the probabilistic collocation method, Water Resources Research, 50: 5848-5865. [WRR Editor’s Highlight, issue cover article]
  44. Zheng Y*, Lin Z, Li H, Ge Y, Zhang W, Ye Y, Wang X (2014). Assessing the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) pollution of urban stormwater runoff: A dynamic modeling approach, Science of the Total Environment, 481: 554-563.
  45. Luo X#, Zheng Y*, Wu B, Lin Z, Han F, Zhang W, Wang X (2013). Impact of carbonaceous materials in soil on the transport of soil-bound PAHs during rainfall-runoff events, Environmental Pollution, 182: 233-241.
  46. Wu B#, Zheng Y* (2013). Assessing the value of information for water quality management: a watershed perspective from China, Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 185(4): 3023-3035.
  47. Zheng Y*, Luo X, Zhang W, Wu B, Han F, Lin Z, Wang X (2012). Enrichment behavior and transport mechanism of soil-bound PAHs during rainfall-runoff events, Environmental Pollution, 171: 85-92.
  48. Zheng Y*, Wang W, Han F, Ping J (2011). Uncertainty assessment for watershed water quality modeling: a Probabilistic Collocation Method based approach. Advances in Water Resources, 34: 887-898.
  49. Zheng Y, Keller AA (2008). Stochastic watershed water quality simulation for TMDL development – a case study in Newport Bay watershed. Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 44(6): 1397-1410.
  50. Zheng Y, Keller AA (2007a). Uncertainty assessment in watershed-scale water quality modeling and management: 1. Framework and application of Generalized Likelihood Uncertainty Estimation (GLUE) approach. Water Resources Research, 43, doi:10.1029/2006WR005345.
  51. Zheng Y, Keller AA (2007b). Uncertainty assessment in watershed-scale water quality modeling and management: 2. Management Objectives Constrained Analysis of Uncertainty (MOCAU). Water Resources Research, 43, doi:10.1029/2006WR005346.
  52. Zheng Y, Keller AA (2006). Understanding parameter sensitivity and its management implications in watershed‐scale water quality modeling. Water Resources Research, 42, doi:10.1029/2005WR004539.
  53. Keller AA, Zheng Y, Robinson TH (2004). Determining critical water quality conditions for inorganic nitrogen in dry semi-urbanized watersheds. Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 40: 721-735.
  54. Wang X, Zheng Y, Liu R, Li B, Cao J, Tao S (2003). Medium scale spatial structures of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the topsoil of Tianjin area. Journal of Environmental Science and Health, part B, B38: 327-335.
  55. Wang X, Zheng Y, Liu R, Li B, Cao J, Tao S (2003). Kriging and PAHs pollution assessment in the topsoil of Tianjin area. Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, 71: 189-195.