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Hongyi Li (he/him/his)

Associate Professor
University of Houston

Dr. Hong-Yi Li is an associate professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Houston (UH). He obtained his B.E. (2000) and M.E. (2003) both at Tsinghua University and Ph.D. (2010) in watershed hydrology at the University of Urbana-Champaign. Before joining UH, he worked at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in 2010-2016 and Montana State University in 2016-2018. His research interests center on hydrological modeling and analysis at the watershed, regional and larger scales in order to improve the understanding and representation of interactions and feedbacks between Human and Earth Systems and their implications to the climate-water-energy-ecology nexus. He is the developer of a large-scale river transport model, which has been adopted as part of both the Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM, sponsored by the Department of Energy) and Community Earth System Model (CESM, hosted by the National Center for Atmospheric Research). He has published over 80 peer-reviewed journal articles. He currently serves as an associate editor at Water Resources Research (AGU) and the chair of the Risk, Uncertainty and Probablistic Approaches committee under ASCE/EWRI.

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