Yuhang Zhang

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Department of Infrastructure Engineering, The University of Melbourne

Supervisors: Prof. QJ Wang, Prof. Dongryeol Ryu

• Developing BRAIN: a national, kilometre-scale, hourly precipitation analysis product for Australia
• Integrating BRAIN with IMPROVER to improve precipitation forecasts for Australia

Research Intern, Microsoft Weather Forecasting Team

Microsoft Corporation, Beijing, China

• Evaluation of global visibility forecast products
• Air quality data collection and initial analysis

Research Intern, Center for Disaster Risk Reduction

Beijing Water Science and Technology Institute, Beijing, China

Supervisors: Profs. Xingyao Pan, Moyuan Yang and Lei Yu

Ph.D. in Physical Geography

Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China

Supervisor: Prof. Aizhong Ye (HomePage)

M.S. in Hydrology

Hohai University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Supervisor: Prof. Tao Yang

B.S. in Hydrology and Water Resources

University of Jinan, Jinan, Shandong, China

Supervisors: Profs. Zhenghe Xu, Guoqing Sang and Yongsen Wang

Editorial Services

• Journal of Applied Water Engineering and Research, Associate Editor (2023-present)

Journal Reviewer

• Nature Communications
• Water Resources Research
• Journal of Hydrology
• Monthly Weather Review
• Environmental Modelling and Software
• Journal of Hydrometeorology
• International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
• Atmospheric Research
• Remote Sensing
• International Journal of Climatology
• Theoretical and Applied Climatology
• Earth Science Informatics
• Hydrological Sciences Journal
• Environmental Research
• Scientific Reports

• 2025: Postdoctoral Research Fellow of the Year Award, The University of Melbourne
• 2023: Outstanding PhD Thesis Award, Beijing Normal University
• 2024, 2022: Outstanding PhD Research Award, Beijing Normal University
• 2022: Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Assistant, Beijing Normal University
• 2021: National Scholarship for Graduate Student, Ministry of Education of China
• 2020, 2019: First Prize of Academic Scholarship, Beijing Normal University
• 2019: Outstanding Graduate Student, Hohai University
• 2019: Outstanding Practice Prize for Graduate Student, Hohai University
• 2017: Second Prize of Academic Scholarship, Hohai University
• 2017: Outstanding Undergraduate Student, Shandong Province, China
• 2017: Outstanding Undergraduate Student, University of Jinan
• 2017: Second Prize of Academic Scholarship, University of Jinan
• 2016, 2015, 2014: First Prize of Academic Scholarship, University of Jinan