Dr. Zheng Nick Fang

Dr. Nick Z Fang is a Professor and the Robert S. Gooch Endowed Faculty Fellow in Civil Engineering and leads the Fang Research Group at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA). He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rice University and is a founding researcher at the Severe Storm Prediction, Education, and Evacuation from Disasters (SSPEED) Center. Dr. Fang currently leads the academic council of the Interagency Flood Risk Management (InFRM) team for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), and National Weather Service (NWS) to cope with extreme events/natural disasters. He actively performs research in the areas of urban hydrology, radar hydrology, large-scale hydrologic modeling, radar-based flood warning systems, water resources planning and management, and disaster (hurricanes, floods, and droughts) mitigation for USACE, NSF, NOAA, USDA, NASA, TxGLO, TWDB, TxDOT, TRA, NCTCOG, TRWD, HCFCD, etc. He has received external, active funding (> USD 10 million) as a PI over the past nine years. His exciting interdisciplinary research experience has gained national and international recognition through improving the fundamental understanding of watershed resiliency by addressing two grand challenges of climate change and urbanization. For more information, please visit his website at http://fang.uta.edu.