Erhu Du

2019-07-03

【Bio】

Erhu Du earned his PhD from Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is interested in applying models and tools in hydrology, social science, economics, and machine learning to understand the complex relationships in coupled human and natural systems. In particular, he developed agent-based models to evaluate the impacts of human behaviors on the management of water resources systems during floods and droughts.

 

Present Employment

Research Fellow, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology

 

Education

2011-2017: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Environmental Engineering, Ph.D. 

2009-2011: Southeast University, Municipal Engineering, M.S.

2005-2009: Southeast University, Water Supply and Sewerage Engineering, B.S. 

 

Work Experience

2018-present: Research Fellow, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology

2016-2017: Research Assistant, National Center for Supercomputing Application, Urbana, IL, USA

2012-2016: Research Assistant, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

 

Publications

  1. Du, Erhu, Samuel Rivera, Ximing Cai, Laura Myers, Andrew Ernest, and Barbara Minsker. 2016. Impacts of Human Behavioral Heterogeneity on the Benefits of Probabilistic Flood Warnings: An Agent-Based Modeling Framework. Journal of the American Water Resources Association 53 (2): 316–32. doi:10.1111/1752-1688.12475.
  2. Du, Erhu, Ximing Cai, Nicholas Brozović, and Barbara Minsker. 2017. Evaluating the Impacts of Farmers’ Behaviors on a Hypothetical Agricultural Water Market Based on Double Auction. Water Resources Research 53 (5): 4053–72. doi:10.1002/2016WR020287.
  3. Du, Erhu, Ximing Cai, Zhiyong Sun, and Barbara Minsker. 2017. Exploring the Role of Social Media and Individual Behaviors in Flood Evacuation Processes: An Agent-Based Modeling Approach. Water Resources Research 53. doi:10.1002/2017WR021192.
  4. Ji Liu, Philip E. Pare, Erhu Du, Zhiyong Sun. 2019. A Networked SIS Disease Dynamics Model with a Waterborne Pathogen. 2019 American Control Conference, Philadelphia, USA