一、个人简介

Amir AghaKouchak为美国加州大学尔湾分校教授，美国加州注册土木工程师，美国地球物理学会(AGU)的四大期刊之一Earth’s Future主编，水文领域国际知名专家。

他主要从事水文气候极端事件、干旱监测和预测、基于Copula的多元水文分析、概率洪水建模与统计水文学、误差分析与分解、土木工程教育与拓展等领域的研究。在国际知名刊物上发表论文学术论文200多篇，出版学术专著5本，参与撰写11本学术专著的相关章节，连续三年（2020-2022）入选全球“高被引科学家”。获国际大地测量和地球物理学联合会（IUGG）早期职业科学家奖，美国土木工程师协会Norman奖、Huber奖，美国地球物理联合会James B. Macelwane奖、水文科学早期职业生涯成就奖等多个奖项。

 

二、教育经历

2010, University of Stuttgart, Germany ,Civil and Environmental Engineering ,PhD

2005, K.N.Toosi University of Technology ,Tehran,Iran ,Water Resources ,MSc

2003, K.N.Toosi University of Technology ,Tehran,Iran, Water Resources ,BSc

                     

三、工作经历

2019-present, Professor, University of California, Irvine

2016-2019, Associate Professor, University of California, Irvine

2011.07-2016.06, Assistant Professor, University of California, Irvine

2010.03-2011.06, Postdoctoral Associate, University of California, Irvine

 

四、研究方向

Hydroclimatic Extremes、Drought Monitoring and Prediction、Multivariate Hydrological Analysis Using Copulas、Probabilistic Flood Modeling and Statistical Hydrology、Error Analysis and Decomposition、Engineering Education & Outreach

 

五、专业技术职务（称）

2019-present,Professor, University of California, Irvine

2016-2019,Associate Professor, University of California, Irvine

2011.07-2016.06,Assistant Professor, University of California, Irvine

 

六、科研著作

  1. AghaKouchak A., Huning L.S., Sadegh M., Qin Y., Markonis Y., Vahedifard F., Love C.A., Mishra A., Mehran A., Obringer R., Hjelmstad A., 2023, Toward Impact-Based Monitoring of Drought and Its Cascading Hazards, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 4, 582–595, doi: 10.1038/s43017-023-00457-2
  2. AghaKouchak A., Pan B., Mazdiyasni O., Sadegh M., Jiwa S., Zhang W., Love C.A., Madadgar S., Papalexiou S.M., Davis S.J., Hsu K., 2022, Status and Prospects for Drought Forecasting: Opportunities in Artificial Intelligence and Hybrid Physical–Statistical Forecasting, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 380(2238), 20210288, doi: 10.1098/rsta.2021.0288
  3. AghaKouchak A., Mirchi A., Madani K., Di Baldassarre G., Nazemi A., Alborzi A., Anjileli H., Azarderakhsh M., Chiang F., Hassanzadeh E., Huning L.S., Mallakpour I., Martinez A., Mazdiyasni O., Moftakhari M., Norouzi H., Sadegh M., Sadeqi D., Van Loon A.F., Wanders N., 2021, Anthropogenic Drought: Definition, Challenges, and Opportunities, Reviews of Geophysics, 59 (2), e2019RG000683, doi: 10.1029/2019RG000683
  4. AghaKouchak A., Chiang F., Huning L.S. Love C.A., Mallakpour I., Mazdiyasni O., Moftakhari H., Papalexiou S.M., Ragno E., Sadegh, M., 2020, Climate Extremes and Compound Hazards in a Warming World, Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 48, 519- 548, doi: 10.1146/annurev-earth-071719-055228.
  5. AghaKouchak A., Huning L., Chiang F., Sadegh M., Vahedifard F.,Mazdiyasni O., Moftakhari H., Mallakpour I., 2018, How do Natural Hazards Cascade to Cause Disasters?, Nature, 561, 458-460 , doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-06783-6
  6. AghaKouchak A., van der Pluijm B., 2018, We Can Work It Out: Avoiding Disasters, Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union, 99, doi: 10.1029/2018EO105299.
  7. AghaKouchak A., 2016, Anthropogenic Drought: How Humans Affect the Global Ecosystem, Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union, 97, https://doi.org/10.1029/2018EO061985.
  8. AghaKouchak A., Feldman D., Hoerling M., Huxman T., Lund J., 2015, Recognize Anthropogenic Drought, Nature, 524 (7566), 409-4011, doi:10.1038/524409a.
  9. AghaKouchak A., Farahmand A., Teixeira J., Wardlow B.D., Melton F.S., Anderson M.C., Hain C.R., 2015, Remote Sensing of Drought: Progress, Challenges and Opportunities, Reviews of Geophysics, 53 (2), 452-480, doi: 10.1002/2014RG000456.
  10. AghaKouchak A., Norouzi H., Madani K., Mirchi A., Azarderakhsh M., Nazemi N., Nasrollahi N., Mehran M., Farahmand A., Hasanzadeh E., 2015, Aral Sea Syndrome Desiccates Lake Urmia: Call for Action, Journal of Great Lakes Research, 41 (1), 307-311, doi: 10.1016/j.jglr.2014.12.007.
  11. AghaKouchak A., Cheng L., Mazdiyasni O., Farahmand A., 2014, Global Warming andChanges in Risk of Concurrent Climate Extremes: Insights from the 2014 California Drought, Geophysical Research Letters, 41 (24), 8847-8852, doi: 10.1002/2014GL062308.
  12. AghaKouchak A., Feldman D., Stewardson M.J., Saphores J.-D., Grant S., Sanders B.,2014, Australia’s Drought: Lessons for California, Science, 343 (6178), 1430-1431,doi:10.1126/science.343.6178.1430.
  13. AghaKouchak A., 2014, Entropy-Copula in Hydrology and Climatology, Journal of Hydrometeorology, 15 (6), 2176-2189, doi: 10.1175/JHM-D-13-0207.1.
  14. AghaKouchak A., 2014, A Baseline Probabilistic Drought Forecasting Framework Using Standardized Soil Moisture Index: Application to the 2012 United States Drought, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 18, 2485-2492, doi: 10.5194/hess-18-2485-2014.
  15. AghaKouchak A., Mehran A., 2013, Extended Contingency Table: Performance Metrics forSatellite Observations and Climate Model Simulations, Water Resources Research, 49,7144-7149, doi:10.1002/wrcr.20498.
  16. AghaKouchak A., Nakhjiri N., and Habib E., 2013, An Educational Model for EnsembleStreamflow Simulation and Uncertainty Analysis, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences,17, 445-452, doi:10.5194/hess-17-445-2013.
  17. AghaKouchak A., Nakhjiri N., 2012, A Near Real-Time Satellite-Based Global Drought Climate Data Record, Environmental Research Letters, 7 (4), 044037, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/7/4/044037.
  18. AghaKouchak A., Mehran A., Norouzi H., Behrangi A., 2012, Systematic and Random Error Components in Satellite Precipitation Data Sets, Geophysical Research Letters, 39,L09406, doi:10.1029/2012GL051592.
  19. AghaKouchak A., Behrangi A., Sorooshian S., Hsu K., Amitai E., 2011, Validation of Satellite-Retrieved Extreme Precipitation Rates across the Central United States, Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 116, D02115, doi: 10.1029/2010JD014741.
  20. AghaKouchak A., Nasrollahi N., Li J., Imam B., Sorooshian S., 2011, Geometrical Characterization of Precipitation Patterns, Journal of Hydrometeorology, 12 (2), 274-285, doi:10.1175/2010JHM1298.
  21. AghaKouchak A., Bárdossy A., Habib E., 2010, Conditional Simulation of Remotely Sensed Rainfall Fields Using a Non-Gaussian V-Transformed Copula, Advances in Water resources,33 (6), 624-634,doi:10.1016/j.advwatres.2010.02.010

 

七、获奖及荣誉

  1. ASCE EWRI Fellow, 2023
  2. ASCE Norman Medal, 2022
  3. Highly Cited Researchers, 2022, 2021, 2020
  4. ASCE Huber Prize, 2020
  5. AGU’s James B. Macelwane Medal, 2019
  6. Fellow, American Geophysical Union (AGU), 2019
  7. International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) Early Career Scientist Award, 2019
  8. Mid-Career Faculty Innovation in Teaching, Samueli School of Engineering, UC Irvine, 2019
  9. AGU Hydrologic Sciences Early Career Award, 2017
  10. IAHS/STAHY Best Paper Award" for 2017 (Cheng, L., AghaKouchak, A. Nonstatlonary precipitation intensity-duration-frequency curves for infrastructure design in a changing climate (2014) Scientific Reports, 4, art. no. 7093).
  11. Outstanding ASCE Faculty Advisor, 2016
  12. Editors’ Citation for Excellence in Refereeing for Geophysical Research Letters, 2016
  13. Orange County Engineering Council (OCEC) Distinguished Educator Award, 2016
  14. ASCE Outstanding Reviewer, 2016
  15. United States Frontiers of Engineering (FOE), National Academy of Engineering (NAE) of the National Academies, 2014, ("The FOE program brings together a select group of emerging engineering leaders from industry, academe, and government labs to discuss pioneering technical work and leading edge research in various engineering fields and industry sectors").
  16. Early Career Innovation in Teaching Award (2014-15). Hellman Fellowship Award (2013-14 ).
  17. Frontiers of Engineering Education (FOEE) Award, National Academy of Engineering (NAE) of the National Academies. 2012, ("The FOEE program brings together some of the nation’s most engaged and innovative engineering educators in order to recognize, reward, and promote effective, substantive, and inspirational engineering education through a sustained dialogue within the emerging generation of innovative faculty").
  18. World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) award to support participation and oral presentation in the WCRP Workshop on Drought Predictability and Prediction in a Changing Climate, March 2-4, 2011, Barcelona, Spain.
  19. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Educational Partnership Program Award, 2009.