Position：Associate Professor
Address：Department of Hydraulic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China,
Postal
Code：100084
E-mail：zhenduozhu@tsinghua.edu.cn
Educational Background
2012.1-2015.12, Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA
2009.8-2011.12, M.S. in Civil Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA
2005.9-2009.7, B.S. in Hydraulic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Work Experience
2023.8–Present, Associate Professor, Department of Hydraulic Engineering, School of Civil Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
2016.8–2023.7, Assistant Professor (tenured associate professor effective 2023.8), Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, USA
2016.1–2016.7, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Teaching Courses
Fluvial Hydraulics (undergraduate course）
Research Interests
Urban water system; smart urban water management; environmental and eco-hydraulics; watershed aquatic environment
Research Projects
2024-2027 Urban stormwater and watershed aquatic environment management (NSF China)，2 million CNY，PI.
2025-2027 Response mechanism and coupled model of high-pulse fluxes of water quantity and quality in a watershed，1 million CNY，PI.
2023-2026 Performance Evaluation and Key Factor Identification of Typical Urban Flood Control and Drainage Systems，1.7 million CNY，PI.
Professional Service
2025-Present, Associate Editor, Journal of Hydrology
2026-Present, Associate Editor, Environmental Modelling & Software
Honors and Awards
2021, Editor’s Choice Award, Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
2019, Best Conference Paper Award, ASCE-EWRI World Environmental & Water Resources Congress
Academic Achievement
60+ Journal papers，representative papers during recent years are as follows（IF is journal’s impact factor in publication year）：
1. P. Li and Z. Zhu*. “STGCN-WQ: A new Spatio-Temporal Graph Convolutional Network for predicting beach Water Quality”. Environmental Modelling & Software (IF=4.6), 2026, 195:106731.
2. Saharia, Z. Zhu* and J.F. Atkinson. “Integrated modeling for evaluating microbial pollution in an urban freshwater coastal river”. Journal of Hydrology (IF=6.3), 2025, 662:133978.
3. S. H. Ghodsi, Z. Zhu*, L. S. Matott, A. Rabideau, and M. N. Torres. “Optimal siting of rainwater harvesting systems for reducing combined sewer overflows at city scale”. Water Research (IF=13). 2023, 230:119533.
4. L. Li, J. Qiao, L. Wang, G. Yu, H. Li, C. Liao*, and Z. Zhu*. “Interpretable tree-based ensemble model for predicting beach water quality”. Water Research (IF=13), 2022, 211:118078.
5.G. Abeshu, H. Li*, Z. Zhu*, Z. Tan, and R. Leung. “Median bed-material sediment particle size across rivers in the contiguous U.S.”. Earth System Science Data (IF=12), 2022, 14:929-942.
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