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Zheng N. Fang, Ph.D., P.E. (he/him/his)

Associate Professor
The University of Texas at Arlington

Dr. Fang is an associate professor and the Robert S. Gooch Endowed Faculty Fellow in Civil Engineering and leads the Fang Research Group at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA). He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rice University. He is a founding researcher at the Severe Storm Prediction, Education, and Evacuation from Disasters (SSPEED) Center. Dr. Fang currently leads the academic council of the Interagency Flood Risk Management (InFRM) team for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), and National Weather Service (NWS) to cope with extreme events/natural disasters. He actively performs research in the areas of urban hydrology, radar hydrology, large scale hydrologic modeling, radar-based flood warning systems, water resources planning and management, and disaster (hurricanes, floods, and droughts) mitigation for USACE, NSF, NOAA, USDA, NASA, TxGLO, TWDB, TxDOT, TRA, NCTCOG, TRWD, HCFCD, etc. His exciting interdisciplinary research experience has gained national and international recognition through improving the fundamental understanding of watershed resiliency by addressing two grand challenges of climate change and urbanization.

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