STUDENT FELLOWS

Xiaogang He is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Princeton University working with Prof. Eric F. Wood and Prof. Justin Sheffield, also pursuing a certificate in Science Technology, and Environmental Policy (STEP) at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs advised by Prof. Michael Oppenheimer. His research interest focuses on the fundamental understanding of how climate change and climate variability affect the global flood and drought risk (FDR) and how we can improve the predictability of these extreme events to reduce their potential impact. Xiaogang has been developing a multi-scale physically motivated, information-theoretic framework to better quantify and diagnose changes in FDR in relation to climate variability and change, and anthropogenic influences such as water management (e.g., reservoir operations, irrigation, water withdrawals). Before coming to Princeton, he received his M.E. in Civil Engineering from the University of Tokyo in 2013; B.Eng (Major) in Hydraulic Engineering, and B.Sc (Dual) in School of Economics and Management from Tsinghua University, China, in 2011.

As an ISEP fellow, Xiaogang is working on the water-food-energy nexus in India using large-scale hydrological models and satellite-based observations.