Kay Khaing Kyaw is a doctoral student in the Department of Civil, Chemical, Environmental, and Materials Engineering under the Academic discipline: ICAR/02 Hydraulic Structures, Maritime Engineering, and Hydrology at the University of Bologna, Italy. She is conducting research on the subject of innovative sub-grid DEM-based inundation modelling for flood hazard and risk intelligence and mapping in urban and peri-urban areas. Her research is supervised by Professor Attilio Castellarin from the University of Bologna and Dr. Stefano Bagli from GECOsistema–Geographic Environmental Consulting, Rimini (RN), Italy. In addition, she had more than 4 years of professional experience as a Model Developer at the Hydro Informatics Institute in Thailand. During this time, she actively participated in many international projects focused on the development of Flood and Drought Monitoring and Forecasting systems. In 2018, she completed her Master’s degree in Water Engineering and Management from the Asian Institute of Technology in Thailand. Her Master's thesis was on flood hazard mapping in Lower Ayeyarwaddy Delta considering land cover change impacts.