Tianfang Xu
Assistant Professor, School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment
Tianfang Xu is an assistant professor in School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment at Arizona State University. She holds a bachelor degree in Geotechnical Engineering from Nanjing University, China, and master’s and doctoral degrees in civil engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Before joining ASU, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Michigan State University and a research assistant professor in Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Utah Water Research Laboratory, Utah State University. Her research focuses on numerical simulation of groundwater flow and solute transport, uncertainty quantification and applications of machine learning in hydrology.
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Recent projects include machine learning-based modeling of groundwater availability and quality at regional scales, heat and carbon mitigation by urban greening, deep learning modeling of snow dominated mountainous karst watersheds, and crop irrigation monitoring.