Members | yceyang

Current Members

RESEARCH SCIENTISTS

Name: Meraj Sohrabi
Status: Research Scientist
Research interests: Agent-based Modeling, Compound Flooding
Current project: I am working on developing agent-based models that simulate household behavior and decision-making during extreme events such as floods and droughts.
Habits: Traveling, Jogging, Photography
Personal website: LinkedIn
Published paper: Google Scholar

GRADUATE STUDENTS

Name: Qiaochu Sun
Status: Ph.D. Student
Research interests: Agent-based modeling, Stormwater Management.
Current project: I am working on using a coupled agent-based modeling framework to quantify the implementation of a decentralized green infrastructure decision-making process.
Habits: I enjoy hiking with friends, walking my dogs and playing ping-pong.
Personal website:
Published paper: Google Scholar

Sun Q., Kushner, H. and Yang, Y. C. E., 2024. Identifying barriers to decentralized stormwater infrastructure implementation at different levels of urban flood governance – A case study in Eastern Pennsylvania, US, Environmental Science and Policy, 154, 103686. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2024.103686

Name: Shrouq Abuismail
Status: Ph.D. Student
Research interests: Agent-based modeling, Stormwater Management.
Current project: stormwater management, water resources engineering, and coupled natural-human system.
Habits: Hiking, biking, and cooking
Personal website: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qvc44V_g2Fg9P_nx0M4U66LpSiADtXAK/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=107200849928303041528&rtpof=true&sd=true
Published paper: Google Scholar

Abuismail, S., Sun, Q. and Yang, Y. C. E., 2024. Exploring the influential factors of residents’ attitudes toward implementing green infrastructures for stormwater management in the US. Sustainable Cities and Society, 100, 105067. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2023.105067.

Name: Husamettin Taysi
Status: Ph.D. Student
Research interests: Floods, urban drainage networks, and climate change
Current project: Integration of urban drainage networks into flood models
Habits: Soccer, Traveling, Video Games
Personal website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/htaysi/
Published paper: Google Scholar

H. Tayşi, M. Özger; (2022). Disaggregation of future GCMs to generate IDF curves for the assessment of urban floods. Journal of Water and Climate Change 1 February 2022; 13 (2): 684–706. doi: https://doi.org/10.2166/wcc.2021.241

Demirel, M.C.; Özen, A.; Orta, S.; Toker, E.; Demir, H.K.; Ekmekcioğlu, Ö.; Tayşi, H.; Eruçar, S.; Sağ, A.B.; Sarı, Ö.; et al. (2019). Additional Value of Using Satellite-Based Soil Moisture and Two Sources of Groundwater Data for Hydrological Model Calibration. Water, 11, 2083. https://doi.org/10.3390/w11102083
Taysi, H. and Yang, Y. C. E., Gangrade, S., Chegini, T. Kao, S. C. and Li, H. Y. 2025. Enhancing 2D Hydrodynamic Flood Models through Machine Learning and Urban Drainage Integration. Journal of Hydrology, 659, 133258. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2025.133258.

Name: Wenyu Chiou
Status: Ph.D. Student
Research interests: Agent-based adaptation modeling, flood mitigation and adaptation, Impact of socio-economic and climate change
Current project: I am working on an NSF project to develop agent-based adaptation modeling (ABAM) to quantify agents’ behavior rules and policy actions, especially for marginalized groups, coupled with flood-inundation modeling.
Habits: Basketball, Jogging, Traveling
Personal website:
Published paper:

Name: Madan Thapa Chhetri
Status: Ph.D. Student
Research interests: Agent-Based Modeling, Watershed Analysis, Water Quality Policy, GIS and Remote Sensing Applications
Current project: I am working to develop a two-way coupled agent-based water quality model(ABMWQ).
Habits: Travelling, Mapping, Cricket, Football, Chess, Poetry, Mentoring
Personal website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/madan-thapa-chhetri-ab9b72217/
Published paper: Google Scholar

Chhetri, M. T., & Rijal, S. (2023). Satellite-Based Analysis of Lake Okeechobee’s Surface Water: Exploring Machine Learning Classification for Change Detection. Environmental Sciences Proceedings, 29(1), 7.

Bilal, H., Li, X., Iqbal, M. S., Tulcan, R. X. S., & Chhetri, M. T. (2024). Unveiling the Dynamics of Cryptosporidium in Urban Surface Water: A Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment and Insights into Climatic and Seasonal Influences. Water, 16(10), 1352.