Ji CHEN
Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Hong Kong (HKU), Pokfulma, Hong Kong, China
E-mail: jichen@hku.hk; Phone: +852 9813 6118; Fax: +852 2559 5337
Web: https://www.civil.hku.hk/pp-chenj.html
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=L23J_IQAAAAJ&hl=zh-CN

Employment:
2020-date : HKU, Hong Kong, China; Professor
2004–2020 : HKU, Hong Kong, China; Lecturer/Assistant Professor/Associate Professor
2001–2004 : University of California, San Diego, USA; Post-doctoral Fellow

Education:PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA, 2001
Master of Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 1996
Bachelor of Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 1993

Areas of Teaching and Research Interests:
Hydrology and hydraulics; Climate change and urbanization effects; Water resources research; Remotesensing in hydrology; Artificial precipitation; AI application to Hydrology

Summary of Publication and Academic Supervision:
Journal Articles > 100; Conference Papers/presentations > 150
Primary supervisor: 15 PhD graduates; primary advisor: 5 Postdoctoral fellows

Memberships in Professional Associations/Committees:

Asia-Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS)
American Geophysical Union (AGU)
American Meteorological Society (AMS)
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)International Association of Hydraulic Engineering and Research (IAHR)
Water Resources Commission member in the China Society of Natural Resources

Services to Academic and Scientific Communities:

AGU Devendra Lal Medal Committee member (2020-)
AOGS (Asia Oceania Geosciences Society) Awards Committee member (2021-)
AOGS HS section President (June 2018 - June 2020)
IAHR - Hong Kong Chapter Chairman (August 2019-August 2021)
Associate Editor for 4 SCI journals: (1) Water Resources Research (Oct 2011-Dec 2015); (2)Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment (Oct 2013-); (3) Journal of HydroEnvironment Research (Oct 2014-); (4) Journal of Hydrology (July 2018 -) Reviewer: More than 20 International Journals; proposals for RGC, UGC (Hong Kong), NSFC
 Conferences: Technical sessions convened/chaired > 30
 Ho Hai University, Nanjing, China, Adjunct Professor (2010-2013), Chair Professor (2019-2022)

Selected Honors and Awards:
Stout WRR Award, University of Illinois, USA; Ph.D. Dissertation Completion Fellowship, University ofIllinois; Outstanding Student Paper Award, AGU

Five Selected Recent Publications (*corresponding author):
1. Lu, Y., Chen, J.*, ... & Law, W. W. (2022). Spatiotemporal variations of river water turbidity inresponding to rainstorm-streamflow processes and farming activities in a mountainous catchment, Lai
Chi Wo, Hong Kong, China. Science of The Total Environment, 160759.
2. Wang, M., Chen, J.*, Li, J., Wang, J., & Xie, H. (2022). Statistic evaluation of low-frequency
acoustic wave impact on rainfall stimulation. Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk
Assessment, 1-13.
3. Qiu, L., Chen, J.*, Fan, L., Sun, L., & Zheng, C. (2022). High-resolution mapping of wildfire drivers
in California based on machine learning. Science of The Total Environment, 833, 155155
4. Feng, Y., Zeng, Z.*, … Chen, J.*, … Zeng, C.* (2022). Doubling of annual forest carbon loss over
the tropics during the early twenty-first century. Nature Sustainability, 5(5), 444-451
5. Sun, L., Chen, J.*, Li, Q., & Huang, D. (2020). Dramatic uneven urbanization of large cities
throughout the world in recent decades. Nature Communications, 11(1), 1-9