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Kun Zhang (PI)
Assistant Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, UMD
Kun is an assistant professor in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of Minnesota Duluth. He is a hydrologic researcher interested in explaining urban hydrologic processes and supporting watershed and infrastructure management, and hazard mitigation through physically-based hydrologic modeling, data-driven methods, and hydrologic sensing and automation.
Zihang Ding
Water Resources Science Ph.D. student, UMD
Hello there! I'm Ding Zihang. Gentle to have, but not compromise, I want to be in quiet, not strong. I love listening to music and watching both movies and anime. I'm also passionate about photography and swimming. Currently, I'm delving into data-driven modeling, with many other potential directions yet to be explored. I'm looking forward to sharing the joys of life with all of you!
Topic: Integrating physically-based and data-driven models in urban hydrology
Vivek Dhakal
Civil Engineering M.S. Student, UMD
Hi, I am Vivek, originally from Nepal. I earned my undergraduate degree from Tribhuvan University, then spent four years working on hydropower projects-mostly doing hydrological analysis, hydraulic design, and river training works. These experiences sparked my interest in hydraulic modeling, hydrology, and climate science. Outside of work and research, I am a big soccer fan and also enjoy playing video games.
Topic: Evaluating the effect of stormwater ponds on sediment removal via computational fluid dynamics modeling
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Marc Abella 2023 7OAKS Engineering, Inc., Design Engineer
Marc worked with me in 2023 to synthesize stream PFAS data and analyze its transport behavior through time-series analysis. We have put that manuscript on the shelf for a while (Zhang, Abella, & Parolari, on the shelf), but hopefully we can finalize and get it published soon!
Dillon Huss 2024-2025 UMD, ongoing B.S. student in Environ. Sci.
Dillon worked with me in 2024-2025 on two projects; One project is about monitoring the thermal mitigation effect of a bio-infiltration basin on UMD campus, this project has been completed and published (Zhang, Huss, & Merten, 2025); The other project is about monitoring the sediment and pollutant removals of a stormwater treatment train in Hartley Park, and it is still an ongoing project.
Austin Konrath 2024-2026 UMD, Graduate student
Austin worked with me from 2024-2026 on two projects; One project is about digitalizing the stormwater BMPs on UMD campus through UROP program, and the other project is about utilizing HYDRUS to simulate the heat mitigation performance of bio-infiltration basins with different media designs (Konrath, Merten, Zhang, 2026, JEM).
Amit Kumar 2024-2026
Amit worked with me from 2024-2026 on various research projects; One project is about using autoML to predict nitrogen and phosphorus concentration in Northshore streams using readily available parameters (Kumar & Zhang, 2025, JH), and the other project is about using autoML to predict daily streamflow in semi-arid watersheds across continents (ongoing).
Imran Md. Azizul Islam 2024-2026 Stantec, Water Resources Engineer
Imran worked in our group from 2024-2026 on an NSF-funded project regarding using HYDRUS to simulate the impact of soil profiles near sewer pipes on sewer-mediated fluxes, including inflow and infiltration, exfiltration, and "urban karst" (Islam, Kumar, & Zhang, 2026, JH).
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Kun Zhang
Kun Zhang
258 Swenson Civil Engineering (SCiv)
258 Swenson Civil Engineering (SCiv)
1405 University Dr, Duluth, MN 55812
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