Ni-Bin Chang

Ni-Bin Chang

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Ni-Bin Chang is a Professor of Environmental Systems Engineering having held this post in the United States (US) since 2002. He received a B.S. degree in Civil Engineering from National Chiao-Tung University in Taiwan in 1983, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Environmental Systems Engineering from Cornell University in 1989 and 1991, respectively, in the US. He is the director of the Stormwater Management Academy and a professor at the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering at the University of Central Florida in the US. He is also a Professional Engineer in the US with over thirty-seven years’ of experience in research, teaching, and outreach/service. Prof. Chang served as the program director of the Hydrologic Sciences Program and Cyber-Innovated Sustainability Science and Engineering Program at the National Science Foundation from Aug. 2012 to Aug. 2014 in the US. Prof. Chang has been working on the core area of “Environmental Sustainability, Green Engineering, and Systems Analysis” with various socio-technical approaches. His recent work has focused on developing multi-scale modeling for flood impact assessment and low impact development, urban food-energy-water nexus, and smart/green technologies for nutrient removal, climate change adaptation, and municipal infrastructure management with integrated sensing, monitoring, and modeling approaches. He has received 40+ honors/awards, including the Blaise Pascal Medal from the European Academy of Sciences (2016), the Distinguished Visiting Fellowship from the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAE) in the United Kingdom (2014), the Fulbright Scholar Award from the Department of State in the US (2012); Bridging the Gaps Award from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) in the United Kingdom (2012); and Outstanding Achievement Award from the Environmental and Water Resources Institute (EWRI), ASCE (2010). Prof. Chang has been an editorial board member of 30+ international journals, including the SPIE Official Journal of Applied Remote Sensing (Editor-in-Chief) and the Journal of Hydroinformatics (Editor-in-Chief). He is an inducted Fellow of the International Society of Optics and Photonics (FSPIE), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (FIEEE), the American Society of Civil Engineers (FASCE), the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) in the United Kingdom, the International Association of Advanced Materials (FIAAM), and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (FAAAS). He is also a Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences (FEASc), and the National Academy of Inventors (FNAI). He was a Board Member of the Earth Science and Environmental Science Division in the EASc from May 2009 to April 2016. He is now one of the executive board members of the Florida Climate Institute (FCI). According to Google Scholar, as of Jan. 2023, his research publications have been cited over 15,700 times with which his h-index being 64 and i10-index being 251.

Recognitions:
  • 2018-2024 Distinguished Lecturer
  • 2018 IEEE Fellows
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