Dr Yurui Fan
Senior Lecturer in Flood and Coastal Engineering
- Civil and Environmental Engineering
- College of Engineering, Design and Physical Sciences
Summary
- Led/participated in research projects supported by industrial, governmental, and international organizations (e.g. Royal Society, Academy of Medical Sciences, British Council, Mitacs, NSERC, CFI)
- Produced high-quality peer-reviewed papers published on npj Natural Hazards, Scientific Data, Water Resources Research, Earth's Future, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, Journal of Hydrology, Advances in Water Resources
- Areas of research interests include water and environmental systems analysis, hydroclimatic extremes, hydroinformatics, machine learning and deep learning, climate change impacts.
Qualifications
Ph.D, 2015 University of Regina, Canada
MEng, 2008, North China Electric Power University, China
BSc, 2006, Shandong University, China
Responsibility
Director, TNE with NCUT
Newest selected publications
Niu, B., Li, Y., Qi, X., Song, M., Zhang, G., Fan, Y., et al. (2026) 'Non-stationary framework of quantifying heat-driven drought propagation mechanisms in the Yellow River Basin of China'. Journal of Hydrology, 677. pp. 135783 - 135783. ISSN: 0022-1694
Yang, A., Li, W., Gao, P., Fan, Y. and Wang, X. (2026) 'Development of PXB-BVC Framework for Multivariate Flood-Risk Assessment Under Climate Change'. Remote Sensing, 18 (14). pp. 2275 - 2275.
Wang, F., Huang, G., Fan, Y., Li, Y., Shen, Z. and Zhou, Y. (2026) 'Composite copula adaptive metropolis for joint parameter estimation in hydrological models'. Journal of Hydrology, 676. pp. 135733 - 135733. ISSN: 0022-1694
Niu, B., Li, Y., Fan, Y., Gong, L., Wang, L. and Wang, T. (2026) 'Comparative analysis of GAMLSS modeling approaches for nonstationary runoff dynamics in the Yellow River Basin of China'. Journal of Hydrology, 669. pp. 135048 - 135048. ISSN: 0022-1694
Peng, Z., Jin, L., Fan, Y., Wang, L. and Liu, J. (2026) 'Synergistic optimization of water-energy-environment nexus under uncertainty: An interval type-2 fuzzy chance-constrained programming model in a coastal mountainous basin, China'. Journal of Environmental Management, 404. pp. 1 - 21. ISSN: 0301-4797