My name is Yifei Zong, an early-career researcher specializing in hydrology and water resources engineering from China 🇨🇳. I am deeply committed to a lifelong pursuit of understanding, exploration, and innovation, to contribute to a better natural environment and human community through continuous research. I love basketball 🏀, tennis 🎾， travel 👣, and music 🎶.

My research uses scientific computation methods, including numerical techniques and advanced deep learning approaches, to solve partial differential equations (PDEs) and employ stochastic modeling approaches for uncertainty quantification to gain a deeper understanding of these systems. Additionally, I explore traditional numerical modeling methods to provide model-based solutions to real-world challenges .

🧑‍🎓 Research Interest

Al for PDE, hydrodynamic modeling, subsurface flow and solute transport modeling, inverse problems and uncertainty quantification

📖 Educations

• 2021.01 - 2025.05, Doctor of Philosophy, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
• 2019.08 - 2020.12, Master of Science, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
• 2014.08 - 2019.06, Bachelor of Science, Hornors Earth Sciences (2+2 program), Ocean University of China & University of Waterloo

🎖 Honors and Awards

• 2023 Chinese government award for outstanding students abroad
• 2018 Duncan F McIvor Memorial Award, University of Waterloo
• 2016 Chinese Universities Program Award, University of Waterloo

💻 Internships

• 2018.05 - 2018.08, Yellow River Water Resources Protection Institute, Ministry of Water Resources, China.