Nick Fang

Associate Professor & Robert S. Gooch Endowed Faculty Fellow
University of Texas at Arlington

Dr. Nick 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 in 2008. He is the associate chair of the academic council for the Interagency Flood Risk Management (InFRM) team consisting of USACE, USGS, NWS, and FEMA. Before joining UTA, he worked as project manager and assistant to the director at the SSPEED center at Rice University. 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. He has been well funded to conduct research for NSF, USACE, NASA, NOAA, USDA, TxDOT, TRA, TxGLO, TRWD, HCFCD, etc. For more information, please visit his website: http://fang.uta.edu.