Wei Xia

Post Doc Research Fellow​

Wei XIA is a post-doctoral researcher at the EI Lab researcher in the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering at Politecnico di Milano. Before join EI lab, he is a research fellow in Industrial Systems Engineering and Management Department at National University of Singapore (NUS). He received his PhD degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from NUS in 2020 (advisor: Distinguished Professor Christine Ann Shoemaker). His research interests are focused on the development of optimization and simulation methods for the design and management of large-scale water resources systems. He has developed a series of open-source parallel optimization tools suitable for solving large-scale complex optimization problems. The optimization tools he developed have been used to efficiently solve various water resources and environmental problems such as the automatic parameterization of complex surface-water simulation models and large-scale earth system models, hyperparameter optimization of data-driven models, the robust design of green infrastructure for flooding intervention. He also interested in the development of cutting-edge machine/deep learning algorithms and their application in the natural hazard management (such as flooding prediction, algae bloom forecasting) and water resources management.