Dr. Chung-Yi Lin

Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering

LINS Lab
Personal Website

Areas of Interest

• Water resources planning and management — agent-based modeling, multi-objective optimization, water system modeling, decision analytics, human-water interactions.
• Resilience in smart water systems — stormwater, reservoirs, smart control, cyber-physical security.
• Water Use & Data Science — risk propagation, food & water security, network analysis.

Education and Training

Postdoctoral Associate, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University, 2025
Postdoctoral Associate, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Virginia Tech, 2024
Ph.D., Civil Engineering, Lehigh University, 2023
M.S., Bioenvironmental Systems Engineering, National Taiwan University, 2019
B.S., Bioenvironmental Systems Engineering, National Taiwan University, 2017

Classes Typically Taught

Applied Hydraulics and Hydrology
Sustainable Human-Water Systems

Professional Society Memberships/Registration

American Geophysical Union (AGU)
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
Social media chair, Water and Society Technical Committee, AGU
Member, Environmental and Water Resources System (EWRS) Control Group, ASCE-EWRI
Member, Water‑Energy Task Committee (ECO‑WES), ASCE-EWRI

Publications

For a recent list of my publications, please visit my Google Scholar.

• Amaya, M., Lin, C.Y., & Marston, L. (2025). Understanding Rural‑to‑Urban Water Transfers: An Agent‑Based and Input‑Output Modeling Approach. Earth’s Future, 13(7), e2024EF004984. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024EF004984
• Orduña Alegría, M. E., Zipper, S., Shin, H. C., Deines, J. M., Hendricks, N. P., Allen, J. J., Bohling, G. C., Golden, B., Griggs, B. W., Lauer, S., Lin, C. Y., Marston, L. T., Sanderson, M. R., Smith, S. M., Whittemore, D. O., Wilson, B. B., Yu, D.J., & Yu, Q. C. (2024). Unlocking aquifer sustainability through irrigator‑driven groundwater conservation. Nature Sustainability, 1–10.
• Lin, C. Y., Orduna Alegria, M., Dhakal, S., Zipper, S.,& Marston, L. (2024). PyCHAMP: A crop‑hydrological‑agent modeling platform for groundwater management. Environmental Modelling & Software, 181, 106187.Lin, C. Y., Miller, A., Waqar, M., & Marston, L. (2024). A database of groundwater wells in the United States. Scientific Data,11(1), 335.
• Zhang, J., Yang, Y. C. E., Abeshu, G. W., Li, H., Hung, F., & Lin, C. Y. (2024). Exploring the food‑energy‑water nexus in coupled natural‑human systems under climate change with a fully integrated agent‑based modeling framework. Journal of Hydrology, 634, 131048.
• Lin, C. Y., Yang, Y. C. E., & Moazeni, F. (2024). Flood risks of cyber‑physical attacks in a smart stormwater system. Water Resources Research, 60, e2023WR034827.
• Lin, C. Y., Yang, Y. C. E., & Chaudhary, A. K. (2023). Pay‑for‑practice or pay‑for‑performance? A coupled agent‑based evaluation framework for assessing sediment management incentive policies. Journal of Hydrology, 624, 129959.
• Lin, C. Y., Yang, Y. C. E., & Wi S. (2022). HydroCNHS: A Python package of a hydrological model for coupled natural human systems. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 148(12), 6022005.
• Jhong, B. C., Lin, C. Y., Jhong, Y. D., Chang, H. K., Chu, J. L., Fang, H. T. (2022). Assessing effective spatial characteristics of input features by physics‑informed machine learning in inundation forecasting during typhoons. Hydrological Sciences Journal, 1‑
• Lin, C. Y., Yang, Y. C. E., Malekc, K., & Adam, J. C. (2022). An investigation of coupled natural human systems using a two‑way coupled agent‑based modeling framework. Environmental Modelling & Software, 155, 105451.
• Lin, C. Y., & Yang, Y. C. E. (2022). The effects of model complexity on model output uncertainty in co‑evolved coupled natural–human systems. Earth’s Future, 10, e2021EF002403.
• Tung, C. P., Tsao, J. H., Tien, Y. C., Lin, C. Y., & Jhong, B. C. (2019). Development of a novel climate adaptation algorithm for climate risk assessment. Water, 11(3), 497.