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Full-Time Faculty

Ana P. Barros
Email barros@nospam65f8f7cfe7d79.illinois.edu
Title Donald Biggar Willett Chair of Engineering; Department Head; Professor
Department Civil and Environmental Engineering
Office 1114 Newmark Civil Engineering Bldg.
Research Area Water Resources Engineering and Science
Ximing Cai, Ph.D.
Email xmcai@nospam65f8f7cfe7e92.illinois.edu
Title Colonel Harry F. and Frankie M. Lovell Endowed Professor in Civil Engineering
Marcelo H. Garcia, Ph.D.
Email mhgarcia@nospam65f8f7cfe7f93.illinois.edu
Title M.T. Geoffrey Yeh Chair in Civil Engineering; Director, Ven Te Chow Hydrosystems Laboratory
Megan Konar, Ph.D.
Email mkonar@nospam65f8f7cfe8056.illinois.edu
Title Associate Professor
Department Civil and Environmental Engineering
Praveen Kumar, Ph.D.
Email kumar1@nospam65f8f7cfe8132.illinois.edu
Title Colonel Harry F. and Frankie M. Lovell Professor
Megan L. Matthews
Email mlmatth2@nospam65f8f7cfe81eb.illinois.edu
Title Assistant Professor
Rafael Tinoco, Ph.D.
Email tinoco@nospam65f8f7cfe82b9.illinois.edu
Title Assistant Professor
Arthur R. Schmidt, Ph.D.
Email aschmidt@nospam65f8f7cfe8373.illinois.edu
Title Clinical Associate Professor
Murugesu Sivapalan, Ph.D.
Email sivapala@nospam65f8f7cfe8442.illinois.edu
Title Professor
Ashlynn Stillwell, Ph.D.
Email ashlynn@nospam65f8f7cfe850e.illinois.edu
Title Associate Professor
Alex M. Tartakovsky
Email amt1998@nospam65f8f7cfe85d6.illinois.edu
Title Professor

Affiliated Faculty

Jim Best, Ph.D.
Email jimbest@nospam65f8f7cfe9301.illinois.edu
Title Threet Professor
Department Geology
Research Area Earth surface processes and sedimentary geology
Leonardo P. Chamorro
Email lpchamo@nospam65f8f7cfe93de.illinois.edu
Title Associate Professor
Department Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering
Research Area Fluid mechanics and turbulence, wind and hydrokinetic energy, geophysical flows, complex boundary layer processes and flow-structure interaction
Francina Dominquez
Email francina@nospam65f8f7cfe94af.illinois.edu
Title Professor
Department Atmospheric Sciences
Research Area Precipitation and hydrometeorological processes, climate modeling and climate change analysis, and climate processes and interactions
Jennifer Druhan
Email jdruhan@nospam65f8f7cfe958a.illinois.edu
Title Associate Professor
Department Geology
Research Area Reactive Transport, Isotope Fractionation, Numerical Methods
Maryam Ghadiri
Email mghadiri@nospam65f8f7cfe9651.illinois.edu
Title Lecturer
Department Water Resources Engineering and Science
Office 3018 Civil Eng Hydrosystems Lab
Research Area Hydrology and Water-Food-Energy Nexus
Kaiyu Guan
Email kaiyug@nospam65f8f7cfe973f.illinois.edu
Title Assistant Professor
Department Natural Resources & Environmental Sciences
Research Area Ecohydrology, remote sensing, crop modeling and forecasting
Yu-Feng Lin
Email yflin@nospam65f8f7cfe981c.illinois.edu
Title Clinical Professor
Department Illinois State Geological Survey
Research Area Hydrogeology, water resources, geothermal exchange, energy and numerical modeling
Bruce Rhoads
Email brhoads@nospam65f8f7cfe98e0.illinois.edu
Title Professor
Department Geography & Geographic Information Science
Research Area Rivers, Watersheds, & Landscape Dynamics
Zhenxing Zhang
Email zhang538@nospam65f8f7cfe99ab.illinois.edu
Title Associate Research Scientist
Department Illinois State Water Survey
Research Area water resources planning and management, hydrology and hydraulic modeling

Emeritus Faculty

Gary Parker, Ph.D.
Email parkerg@nospam65f8f7cfea4ed.illinois.edu
Title Grainger Distinguished Chair in Engineering W. H. Johnson Professor of Geology
Albert J. Valocchi, Ph.D.
Email valocchi@nospam65f8f7cfea5ba.illinois.edu
Title Abel Bliss Professor of Engineering
Department Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Area Groundwater Hydraulics and Pollutant Transport

Post-Doctoral Researchers

Kao-Hua Chang

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Title Post-Doc
Department Water Resources Engineering and Science

Yu Chen

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Email ychenpku@nospam65f8f7cfec4a4.illinois.edu
Title Post-Doc
Department Water Resources Engineering and Science

Som Dutta, Phd

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Email dutta5@nospam65f8f7cfece3a.illinois.edu
Title Post-Doc
Department Water Resources Engineering and Science

Mostafa Elag

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Title Post-Doc
Department Water Resources Engineering and Science

Allison Goodwell

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Email allison@nospam65f8f7cfed915.goodwell.net
Title Post-Doc
Department Water Resources Engineering and Science

Hao Luo

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Title Post-Doc
Department Water Resources Engineering and Science

Dongkook Woo

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Title Post-Doc
Department Water Resources Engineering and Science

Students

Ph.D. Students

Andres Rojas Aguirre
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Email afr3@nospam65f8f7cff1190.illinois.edu
Title Ph.D. Student
Department Water Resources Engineering and Science
Tushar Apurv
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Title Ph.D. Student
Department Water Resources Engineering and Science
Scott Banjavcic
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Title Ph.D. Student
Department Water Resources Engineering and Science
Jorge San Juan Blanco
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Email snjnbln2@nospam65f8f7cff2632.illinois.edu
Title Ph.D. Student
Department Water Resources Engineering and Science
Christopher Chini
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Title Ph.D. Student
Department Sustainable Resilient Infrastructure Systems
Matthew Czapiga
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Email czapiga2@nospam65f8f7cff391c.illinois.edu
Title Ph.D. Student
Department Water Resources Engineering and Science
Qian Dang
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Title Ph.D. Student
Department Water Resources Engineering and Science
Roberto Fernandez
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Title Ph.D. Student
Department Water Resources Engineering and Science
Dimitrios Fytanidis
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Title Ph.D. Student
Department Water Resources Engineering and Science
Xiucheng Guan
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Title Ph.D. Student
Department Water Resources Engineering and Science
Yifan He
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Title Ph.D. Student
Department Water Resources Engineering and Science
Leila Hernandez
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Email lch2@nospam65f8f7d00487f.illinois.edu
Title Ph.D. Student
Department Water Resources Engineering and Science
Franklin Holcomb
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Title Ph.D. Student
Department Water Resources Engineering and Science
Nicole Jackson
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Title Ph.D. Student
Department Energy-Water-Environment Sustainability Program
Peishi Jiang
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Title Ph.D. Student
Department Water Resources Engineering and Science
Amir Hossein Kohanpur
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Email kohanpu2@nospam65f8f7d006981.illinois.edu
Title Ph.D. Student
Department Water Resources Engineering and Science
Jeffrey Kwang
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Title Ph.d. student
Department Water Resources Engineering and Science
Esther Lee
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Title Ph.D. Student
Department Water Resources Engineering and Science
Zheng Li
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Title Ph.D. Student
Department Water Resources Engineering and Science
Zhi Li
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Title Ph.D. Student
Department Water Resources Engineering and Science
Xiaowen Lin
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Title Ph.D. Student
Department Water Resources Engineering and Science
Lauren Logan
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Title Ph.D. Student
Department Energy-Water-Environment Sustainability Program
William Naggaga Lubega
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Title Ph.D. Student
Department Energy-Water-Environment Sustainability Program
Kensuke Naito
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Title Ph.D. Student
Department Water Resources Engineering and Science
Heeho (Daniel) Park
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Title Ph.D. Student
Department Water Resources Engineering and Science
Sun Young Park
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Title Ph.D. Student
Department Water Resources Engineering and Science
Andres F. Prada
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Title Ph.D. Student
Department Water Resources Engineering and Science
Meredith Richardson
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Title Ph.D. Student
Department Water Resources Engineering and Science
Susana Roque-Malo
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Title Ph.D. Student
Department Water Resources Engineering and Science
Paul Ruess
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Email ruess2@nospam65f8f7d00ca38.illinois.edu
Title Ph.D. Student
Department Water Resources Engineering Science
Santiago Santacruz
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Title Ph.D. Student
Department Water Resources Engineering and Science
Majid Shafiee-Jood
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Email shafiee2@nospam65f8f7d00d93b.illinois.edu
Title Ph.D. Student
Department Water Resources Engineering and Science
Chien-Yung Tseng
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Title Ph.D. Student
Department Water Resources Engineering and Science
Dongchen Wang
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Title Ph.D. Student
Department Water Resources Engineering and Science
Kexuan Wang
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Title Ph.D. Student
Department Water Resources Engineering and Science
Kunxuan Wang
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Title Ph.D. Student
Department Water Resources Engineering and Science
Reshmina William
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Email willi149@nospam65f8f7d00f0ad.illinois.edu
Title Ph.D. Student
Department Sustainable Resilient Infrastructure Systems
Heng Wu
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Title Ph.D. Student
Department Water Resources Engineering and Science
Qina Yan
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Title Ph.D. Student
Department Water Resources Engineering and Science

M.S. Students

Trevor Auth
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Title M.S. Student
Department Energy-Water-Environment Sustainability Program
Ye Bai
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Title M.S. Student
Department Water Resources Engineering and Science
James Canning
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Title M.S. Student
Department Sustainable Resilient Infrastructure Systems
Chieh-Ying (Cindy) Chen
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Title M.S. Student
Department Water Resources Engineering and Science
Keng-Tzu Chuang
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Title M.S. Student
Department Water Resources Engineering and Science
Lucas Djehdian
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Title M.S. Student
Department Energy-Water-Environment Sustainability Program
Kurtis Duemler
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Title M.S. Student
Department Water Resources Engineering and Science
Linlu Gan
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Title M.S. Student
Department Water Resources Engineering and Science
Yan Ge
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Title M.S. Student
Department Water Resources Engineering and Science
Rachel von Gnechten
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Title M.S. Student
Department Water Resources Engineering and Science
Sajani Gumidyala
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Title M.S. Student
Department Water Resources Engineering and Science
Shaoxuan Guo
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Title M.S. Student
Department Water Resources Engineering and Science
Lori Jones
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Title M.S. Student
Department Water Resources Engineering and Science
Muhammad Khan
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Title M.S. Student
Department Water Resources Engineering and Science
Chulgi Kim
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Title M.S. Student
Department Water Resources Engineering and Science
Sanghyun Lee
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Title M.S. Student
Department Water Resources Engineering and Science
Andrew Leman
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Title M.S. Student
Department Water Resources Engineering and Science
Jieyu Qin
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Title M.S. Student
Department Water Resources Engineering and Science
Navid Rahimi
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Title M.S. Student
Department Water Resources Engineering and Science
Pallav Ranjan
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Title M.S. Student
Department Water Resources Engineering and Science
Kevin Wallington
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Title M.S. Student
Department Water Resources Engineering and Science
Jingjing Xu
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Title M.S. Student
Department Water Resources Engineering and Science
Shuo Yan
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Title M.S. Student
Department Water Resources Engineering and Science
Yu Zhang
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Title M.S. Student
Department Water Resources Engineering and Science
Qiankun Zhao
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Title M.S. Student
Department Water Resources Engineering and Science

Staff

Jennifer Bishop

Email jbishop4@nospam65f8f7d0187de.illinois.edu
Title Office Support Specialist
Department Water Resource Engineering and Science
Office 3120 DCL, MC-250
205 N. Mathews Ave
Urbana, IL 61801

Andrew Waratuke

Email awaratuk@nospam65f8f7d018909.illinois.edu
Title Research Engineer/Lab Manager
Department Ven Te Chow Hydrosystems Lab
Office 1540 Hydrosystems Laboratory
205 N. Mathews Ave
Urbana, IL 61801

Alumni

Oscar Garcia-Cabrejo

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Email garcia30@nospam65f8f7d019f87.illinois.edu
Title Ph.D. Student
Department Environmental Hydrology and Hydraulics Engineering

Harsev Singh

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Email hsingh14@nospam65f8f7d01ab2e.illinois.edu
Title M.S. Student
Department Environmental Engineering and Science

Chen Zhang

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Title M.S. Student
Department Environmental Hydrology and Hydraulic Engineering

2007

Meredith Carr

2010

Blake J. Landry, Ph.D.
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Email blandry2@nospam65f8f7d01c5e4.illinois.edu
Title Phd, 2010
Department Ven Te Chow Hydrosystems Laboratory
Office 1534 Hydrosystems Laboratory
John Watson
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Title M.S., 2010
Department Environmental Hydrology and Hydraulic Engineering

2012

Justin Boldt
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Title M.S., 2012
Department Environmental Hydrology and Hydraulics Engineering
Sayo Chaoka
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Title M.S. 2012
Department Environmental Hydrology and Hydraulics Engineering
Javier Hernandez
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Title M.S., 2012
Department Environmental Hydrology and Hydraulics Engineering

2013

Davide Motta, Ph.D.
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Title Ph.D., 2013
Department Environmental Hydrology and Hydraulics Engineering
Esther Eke, Ph.D.
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Title Ph.D., 2013
Department Environmental Hydrology and Hydraulics Engineering
Mauricio M. Perillo, Ph.D.
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Title Ph.D., 2013
Department Geology
Sumit Sinha, Ph.D.
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Title Ph.D., 2013
Department Environmental Hydrology and Hydraulics Engineering
Venkatraman Srinivasan, Ph.D.
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Title Ph.D., 2013
Department Environmental Hydrology and Hydraulics Engineering
Andrew Erickson
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Title M.S. 2012
Department Environmental Hydrology and Hydraulics Engineering
Carolina Lara
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Title M.S. 2013
Department Environmental Hydrology and Hydraulics Engineering
Brittany Rittenbacher
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Title M.S. 2013
Department Environmental Hydrology and Hydraulics Engineering
Brynne Storsved
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Title M.S., 2013
Department Environmental Hydrology and Hydraulics Engineering

2014

Nam Jeong Choi, Ph.D.
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Title Ph.D., 2014
Department Environmental Hydrology and Hydraulics Engineering
Tatiana Garcia Botero, Ph.D.
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Title Ph.D., 2014
Department Environmental Hydrology and Hydraulic Engineering
Alec Robertson
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Title M.S., 2014
Department Environmental Hydrology and Hydraulic Engineering

2015

Jose Mier, Ph.D.
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Title Ph.D., 2015
Department Environmental Hydrology and Hydraulics Engineering
Zachary Barker
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Email zbarker2@nospam65f8f7d02c1bc.illinois.edu
Title M.S., 2015
Department Environmental Hydrology and Hydraulic Engineering
Tyler DeNooyer
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Title M.S. 2015
Department Energy-Water-Environment Sustainability
Viviana Morales, Phd
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Email morale25@nospam65f8f7d02dadc.illinois.edu
Title Ph.D., 2015
Department Environmental Hydrology and Hydraulic Engineering
Paul Noel
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Title M.S., 2015
Department Environmental Hydrology and Hydraulic Engineering
Marielys Ramos
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Title M.S., 2015
Department Environmental Hydrology and Hydraulic Engineering
Andrew Rehn
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Email rehn1@nospam65f8f7d032bfc.illinois.edu
Title M.S., 2015
Department Environmental Hydrology and Hydraulic Engineering

2016

David S. Ancalle
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Email ancalle2@nospam65f8f7d035e3f.illinois.edu
Title M.S., 2016
Department Environmental Hydrology and Hydraulic Engineering
Zachary Barnaal
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Title M.S., 2016
Department Environmental Hydrology and Hydraulic Engineering
Matt Doherty
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Title M.S., 2016
Department Water Resources Engineering and Science
Debsunder Dutta, Phd
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Email ddutta3@nospam65f8f7d03900e.illinois.edu
Title Ph.D., 2016
Department Environmental Hydrology and Hydraulics Engineering
Som Dutta, Phd
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Email dutta5@nospam65f8f7d0391c7.illinois.edu
Title Post-Doc
Department Water Resources Engineering and Science
Yao Hu, Phd
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Email yaohu2@nospam65f8f7d039f3f.illinois.edu
Title Ph.D., 2016
Department Environmental Hydrology and Hydraulics Engineering
Esteban Lacunza
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Title M.S., 2016
Department Environmental Hydrology and Hydraulic Engineering
Phong Le, Phd
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Title Post-Doc, Ph.D., 2016
Department Environmental Hydrology and Hydraulics Engineering
Fernanda Maciel Yo
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Email maciely2@nospam65f8f7d03d402.illinois.edu
Title M.S., 2016
Department Environmental Hydrology and Hydraulic Engineering
Wesley Mercado
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Email wtmerca2@nospam65f8f7d03d57d.illinois.edu
Title M.S., 2016
Department Environmental Hydrology and Hydraulic Engineering
Tianfang Xu, Phd
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Title Ph.D., 2016
Department Water Resources Engineering and Science
Zhenduo Zhu, Phd
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Title Ph.D., 2016
Department Environmental Hydrology and Hydraulics Engineering
Roberto Takahashi
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Title M.S., 2016
Department Environmental Hydrology and Hydraulic Engineering
Fengyuan Tian
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Title M.S., 2016
Department Water Resources Engineering and Science
Oswaldo Torres
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Title M.S., 2016
Department Environmental Hydrology and Hydraulic Engineering
Derek Wagner
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Title M.S., 2016
Department Water Resources Engineering and Science
Chen Zhang
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Title M.S. Student
Department Environmental Hydrology and Hydraulic Engineering

2017

Landon Marston
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Email lmarsto2@nospam65f8f7d041e5d.illinois.edu
Title Ph.D. Student
Department Environmental Hydrology and Hydraulic Engineering
Harsev Singh
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Email hsingh14@nospam65f8f7d042038.illinois.edu
Title M.S. Student
Department Environmental Engineering and Science
David Waterman
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Email waterma3@nospam65f8f7d042a27.illinois.edu
Title Ph.D. Student
Department Environmental Hydrology and Hydraulic Engineering
Ruijie Zeng
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Title Ph.D. Student
Department Water Resources Engineering and Science