Power Plant Assistant

Ziwen Yu

Telephone: 267-***-**** **** Baring St. 3R,

Email: *********@*****.*** Philadelphia, PA 19104

Objective

Seeking private-sector employment in data-based modelling and analysis with ability to employ various mathematical

and statistical methods and programming tools

Education

Sep, 2008 - Sep, 2013 (Expected) Ph.D (Environmental Engineering) DREXEL UNIVERSITY

Dissertation title: "Forecast precipitation time series under climate change by computational learning

underlying physical mechanism from other climatic characteristics."

Sep, 2008 - Sep, 2013 (Expected) MS (Environmental Engineering) DREXEL UNIVERSITY

Thesis title: "Develop a stochastic rainfall simulator to be utilized in assessing green infrastructure’s runoff

reduction ability."

Sep, 2001 – Jun, 2005 BS (Environmental Engineering) TONGJI UNIVERSITY

Thesis title: "Visualization and stimulation of the water flow in the Huangpu River environment."

Professional experience

2008-present Lab IT manager, Drexel University (Philadelphia, PA)

Manage a multi-virtual system server for the Sustainable Water Resource Engineering (SWRE)

Lab (with tasks of data collection, storage, analysis)

Maintain the website of SWRE research group.

2008-present Research Assistant, Drexel University (Philadelphia, PA)

Developed a stochastic synthetic precipitation generator (VB.NET, MSSQL Server, Stochastic

process, Monte Carlo model)

Designed the Low Impact Development Rapid Assessment (LIDRA) (www.lidratool.net)

(VB.NET, C#, MSSQL Server)

Performed Life cycle analysis of green infrastructure in solving the runoff related problem in

urban watershed (on-going) (VB.NET, MSSQL Server)

Analysed climate change trends from the historical climate observations in North East coastal

cities (on-going). (Python, MSSQL Server, R, Time series analysis, Regression, Fourier analysis)

2008-present Teaching Assistant Drexel University (Philadelphia, PA)

Gave lectures, advised students, managed labs for five different classes

CAEE 210 "Measurements" I summer 2011-2012, summer 2010-2011

CAEE 211 "Measurement II" summer 2009-2010

CAEE 201 "Intro to Infrastructure" Spring 2011-2012

CIVE 330 "Hydraulics" Lab winter 2011-2012, winter 2009-2010

CIVE 430 "Hydrology" Fall 2011-2012, spring 2010-2011, Spring 2009-2010

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2005-2008 Data Engineer in Pudong Frontier Inspection

Data Entry, Data Validation, Quality and data Analysis

2004-2005 Research Assistant, Tongji University (Shanghai, China)

Designed visualization and stimulation of the water flow in the Hungpu River environment (VB6)

Participated in eco-city information and decision support systems of the city of Suzhou (VB6,

VC++, GIS)

Developed integrated air pollutants emission control for the power plant system fired with

combined fuel (VB6)

Skills

Modelling and analysis skills

Time series analysis, stochastic process, Markov Chain Monte Carlo modelling, Machine learning,

Fourier analysis, Regression, Cluster analysis

Statistical Analysis packages

R, SPSS

Programming skills

VB.NET, VBA, C#, C++, Python

Database skills

SQL (MSSQL Server), DIADEM, Data manipulation, Ad hoc reporting

Other Skills

Map Reducing, Git, Tableau, GIS, Arena, operation research, Server maintenance, web-based

modelling, Life cycle analysis, MS Office

Publications

Yu,Z, Assessment of social and climate change uncertainties in applying green infrastructure in solving

runoff related problems in urban watershed in NE coastal cities (In progress)

Yu,Z, Validating hydrologic predictions from LIDRA – Comparing with SWMM (In progress)

Yu,Z, Life cycle cost estimation of green infrastructures in urban area (In progress)

Montalto, F.,Behr,C.,Yu,Z. (2011). Accounting for Uncertainty in Determining Green Infrastrcutre

Cost-Effectiveness. Economic Incentives for Stormwater Control. H. W. Thurston, Taylor & Francis.

Yu,Z; Montalto,F (2011), Optimizing selection of decentralized stormwater management strategies in

urbanized regions with LIDRA 2.0 Poster presentation, AGU conference, in San Francisco, CA, Dec 2011

Spatari, S.,Yu,Z.,Montalto,F.,(2011). "Life cycle implications of urban green infrastructure."

Environmental Pollution 159(8): 2174-2179.

Yu, Z; Aguayo, M; Piasecki, M and FA Montalto (2010) Developments in LIDRA 2.0: a planning level

assessment of the cost-effectiveness of low impact development. Proceedings of the ASCE Environment

and Water Resources Institute Conference, Providence, Rhode Island, May 16-20, 2010

Yu, Z; Kimberly, D; FA Montalto (2010) Using a calibrated Thornthwaite Mather model to estimate the

effects of green infrastructure on hydro fluxes in urban watershed, Poster presentation, AGU conference,

in San Francisco, CA, Dec 2010

References Are Available On Request

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