Civil and Environmental Engineering

Additional Campus Affiliations

Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Affiliate, Climate, Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences
Assistant Professor, Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment
Assistant Professor, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)

Recent Publications

Caylor, K. K., Abatzoglou, J. T., Dalin, C., de Beurs, K. M., Diffenbaugh, N. S., Guan, D., Kopp, R. E., Le Cozannet, G., Mankin, J. S., Mishra, A. K., Mishra, V., Puma, M. J., Reed, P. M., Rulli, M. C., Sadegh, M., Seroussi, H., Trugman, A. T., Zhang, X., & Zhao, L. (2026). Earth's Future: Thematic Areas for a Growing Journal. Earth's Future, 14(3), Article e2026EF008498. https://doi.org/10.1029/2026EF008498

Caylor, K. K., Mankin, J., Rull, M. C., Guan, D., Abatzoglou, J., de Beurs, K., Le Cozannet, G., Dalin, C., Diffenbaugh, N. S., Kopp, R. E., Mishra, A., Mishra, V., Puma, M., Reed, P. M., Sadegh, M., Seroussi, H., Trugman, A., Zhang, X., & Zhao, L. (2026). Thank You to Our 2025 Peer Reviewers. Earth's Future, 14(4), Article e2026EF008660. https://doi.org/10.1029/2026EF008660

Jia, M., Peng, B., Guan, K., Lawrence, D. M., DeLucia, E. H., Knapp, A. K., Barron-Gafford, G. A., Khanna, M., Lombardozzi, D. L., Sturchio, M. A., Kannenberg, S. A., Zhao, L., McCall, J., Tang, J., Bernacchi, C. J., Mwebaze, P., Majeed, F., Lee, D., & Time, A. (2026). Climate-driven divergence in biophysical and economic impacts of agrivoltaics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 123(10), Article e2514380123. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2514380123

Jiang, S., Zhao, Y., Zhao, L., Strebel, D., Derome, D., Ürge-Vorsatz, D., Carmeliet, J., & Peng, J. (2026). Nonlinear impacts of urban size and vegetation cover on global surface urban heat: Insights from 6022 cities. Remote Sensing of Environment, 333, Article 115154. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2025.115154

Zhang, Y., Zhao, L., Chakraborty, TC., Mazumdar, P., Zhang, K., & Gentine, P. (2026). Transfer learning reveals large discrepancies between air and land surface temperatures in cities. Nature communications. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-73716-7

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