个人简介 / About Chen

杨晨，研究员/副教授，博士生导师 / Chen Yang, PhD, Associate Professor

国家海外高层次青年人才计划入选者 / NSFC early career award

研究方向 ParFlow集成水文模型研发; 地下水与陆气交互作用

 

News and Announcements

  • 03/2025, a deep learning surrogate model was built for CONCN modeling platform [link]
  • 02/2025, ParFlow CONCN modeling platform was accepted for publication in HESS
  • 02/2025, ParFlow-NASA LIS (land information system) was published in JAMES [link]
  • 01/2025, our Nature Water paper (continental particle tracking) was published online
  • 12/2024, Chuke Chen, student mentored at SUSTech, was elected Tsinghua Shuimu Scholar
  • 11/2024, our ParFlow modeling platform from bedrock to canopy top got funded by NSFC
  • 11/2024, CoLM and ParFlow have been preliminarily coupled [link]

 

小组成员 / Group Members

  • Aoqi Sun (孙奥奇), M.S. student, groundwater–land surface interactions
  • Hui Huang (黄辉), M.S. student, surrogate modeling and data assimilation
  • Wenjie Xu (徐文杰), PhD student, remote sensing and hydrologic modeling
  • Jiyuan Hu (胡基源), PhD student, data assimilation and model intercomparison
  • Zeyu Tang (唐泽宇), Research Assistant, large-scale hydrologic modeling and data fusion  
  • Zihan Wang (王梓涵), Undergraduate Intern, CONCN model sharing platform development  

 

微信公众号 / Wechat Official Account

 

研究兴趣 / Research Interests

• Terrestrial water cycle dynamics, with emphasis on groundwater–land–atmosphere interactions 

• Integrated hydrologic modeling of surface water and 3D variably saturated groundwater systems 

• Development and application of fully coupled hydrologic–land surface modeling frameworks 

• High-performance massively parallel computing using hybrid architectures (OpenMP, MPI, and CUDA) 

• Spatiotemporal scaling theory for biogeochemical processes in reactive transport systems 

• Stochastic theory and its applications in hydrology

 

个人网站 / Personal Website

https://aureliayang.github.io/

 

联系方式 / Contact Chen

电子邮箱 / Email：yangch329@mail.sysu.edu.cn

办公地点 / Office：中山大学珠海校区海琴2号A536-4

 

工作经历 / Professional Experience

06/2024至今，副教授，中山大学，大气科学学院 

Associate Professor, Sun Yat-sen University, School of Atmospheric Sciences

09/2020–05/2024，副研究员，美国普林斯顿大学，土木与环境工程系 

Associate Research Scholar, Princeton University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

12/2018–02/2020，助理研究员，南方科技大学，环境科学与工程学院 

Research Associate, Southern University of Science and Technology, School of Environmental Science and Engineering

10/2015–11/2018，博士后研究员，中国地质大学（武汉），环境学院 

Postdoctoral Researcher, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), School of Environmental Studies

 

教育经历 / Education

09/2015，博士，南京大学，水文学及水资源 

PhD, Nanjing University, Hydrology and Water Resources

06/2010，学士，中国地质大学（武汉），水文与水资源工程 

BE, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), Hydrology and Water Resources Engineering

 

访问经历 / Visiting Experience

12/2019–08/2020，美国科罗拉多矿业学院 / Colorado School of Mines

04/2019–11/2019，美国休斯敦大学 / University of Houston

11/2015–04/2017，美国太平洋西北国家实验室 / Pacific Northwest National Lab

 

代表性文章 / Selected Papers

(student author#)

Published

  • Yang C*, Sun AQ#, Zhang SP, Dai YJ, Kollet SJ, Maxwell RM, 2026. Twenty years of trials and insights: bridging legacy and next generation in ParFlow and land surface model coupling [link]. Geoscientific Model Development, 19(5): 1849-1866.
  • Yang C*, Jia ZT, Xu WJ#, Wei ZW, Zhang XL, Zou YG, Mcdonnell JJ, Condon LE, Dai YJ, Maxwell RM, 2025. CONCN: a high-resolution, integrated surface water-groundwater ParFlow modeling platform of continental China [link]. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 29(9): 220-2218.
  • Yang C*, Condon LE, Maxwell RM, 2025. Unraveling groundwater-stream connections over the continental United States [link]. Nature Water, 3, 70-79.
  • Yang C*, Maxwell RM, McDonnell JJ, Yang XF, Tijerina-Kreuzer DT, 2023. The role of topography in controlling evapotranspiration age [link]. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 128(18): e2023JD039228.
  • Yang C*, Ponder CG, Wang B, Tran HV, Zhang J, Swilley JS, Condon LE, Maxwell RM, 2023. Accelerating the Lagrangian particle tracking in hydrology to continental-scale [link]. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 15(5): e2022MS003507.