Biography

Education:

  • Ph.D.: Civil Engineering, in the Hydraulics and Systems area; Purdue University, W. Lafayette, Indiana (as Fulbright Scholar and Purdue University Victor O’Shaughnessy Fellow)
  • M.S.: Civil Engineering, in the Hydrology and Water Resources Program, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, Colorado (as Fulbright Scholar)

Awards and Honors:

  • 2023 ASCE/EWRI Lifetime Achievement Award
  • 2019 Distinguished Member of ASCE
  • 2016 Croess Medal from ASCE
  • 2016 Best Paper award from ASCE JHE
  • 2015 International Award from The Japan Society of Hydrology and Water Resources
  • 2014 Distinguished Professor, University of California, Davis, July 2014
  • 2014 The Advisory Committee Climate Services Award from CA DWR, November, 2014
  • 2010-2015 Gerald and Lillian Orlob Endowed Chair Professor of Water Resources Engineering
  • 2009 ASCE Ven Te Chow Award, (The highest honor that can be bestowed by American Society of Civil Engineers to a Hydrologic Engineer); 2009 Ven Te Chow Award Lecturer, ASCE
  • 2008 ASCE Fellow
  • 2006 ASCE/EWRI JHE 2006 Best paper award
  • 2001 ASCE Arid Lands Hydraulic Engineering Award
  • 1999 ASCE Richard Torrens Award
  • Listed in American Men and Women of Science
  • Fulbright Scholar; Purdue University Victor O’Shaughnessy Fellow
  • Member of Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society
  • 1995-2004 Founding Editor-in-Chief of ASCE Journal of Hydrologic Engineering

Professional Activities:

  • Chair of the national review panel for the review of the internal USDA/ARS projects, September –October, 2021
  • Chair of ASCE/EWRI Watershed Council, 2022-ongoing
  • Chair of ASCE/EWRI Hydroclimate Committee, 2008- ongoing
  • Member of California Climate Change Advisory Board, 2012- 2015
  • Member of the Steering Group on Water and Climate Change, Asia-Pacific Water Forum, June 2010- 2014
  • Member of the UNESCO Expert Group on Climate Change and Water, 2008- 2012
  • Founding Editor-in-Chief of ASCE Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, October 1995- June 2004
  • Member of the Editorial Board of: Water Journal, 2019 – ongoing
  • Member of the Editorial Advisory Boards of:
    1. ASCE Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, 2005 – ongoing
    2. ISH Journal of Hydraulic Engineering (Indian Journal of Hydraulic Engineering), 2012 – ongoing
    3. International Journal of Water Quality Exposure and Health, 2008- 2020
    4. UNESCO International Hydrology Series, 2006 – 2012;
    5. Korean Water Resources Journal, 2004-2012;
    6. Open Hydrology Journal, (A Russian-Chinese- Indian international journal in hydrology), 2010- 2015;
  • Associate Editor of the Hydrological Sciences Journal, 1994-1999
  • Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Hydrology, 1991-1997
  • Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Advances in Water Resources, 1989- 1994
  • Member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Stochastic Hydrology and Hydraulics, 1987-1998
  • Member of the Scientific Committee, 10th International Precipitation Conference, Coimbre, Portugal, June 23-25, 2010
  • Member of the Scientific Committee, 9th International Precipitation Conference, Paris, France, November 12 –14, 2007
  • Member of IAHS Working Group on Experimental and Theoretical Hydrology at All Scales, August, 1999 – 2003
  • Co-convener of the Soil-Vegetation-Atmosphere Transfer Schemes and Large scale Hydrological Models Symposium during Sixth Scientific Assembly of IAHS, July 18-27, 2001
  • Chair of Macroscale Hydrologic Modeling Working Group of IAHS, 1995-1999
  • Co-director of Center for the Study of Hydro-climatology in the Pacific Rim (Jointly with UCLA), July 1996 – 1999
  • Convener of the Surface Water Modeling Symposium, Third Scientific Assembly of IAHS, May 10-19, 1989
  • Chair of ASCE J. Hydrologic Engineering Publications Committee, 1995-2004
  • Member of ASCE Hydrology Technical Oversight Committee, ASCE Surface Water Hydrology Committee, ASCE Groundwater Hydrology Committee;
  • Member of ASCE EWRI Publications Committee 1996-2004
  • Member of AGU, ASCE, AIH, IAHS, EGS
  • External Examiner for Ph.D. theses for various Departments of Civil Engineering at Indian Institute of Technologies Invited Expert Reviewer for the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) Fourth Assessment Report

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