Helen

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Dr.-Ing. HE, Yi Helen, M.Sc.

HE, Yi in office (the armchair 'hydrologist') ^?^
HE, Yi in office (the armchair 'hydrologist') ^?^

Yi @ UEA

Email: yi.he@uea.ac.uk

Telephone: +44-(0)1603-592091 (office)

Contents

Educational Background

  • 10/04 - 09/07 Doktor-Ingenieurin / Dr.-Ing.
 Dept. of Hydrology and Geohydrology, Institute of Hydraulic Engineering, Universität Stuttgart, Germany
 Title of dissertation: Application of a Non-parametric Classification Scheme to Catchment Hydrology
 Doctrate commenced 01-10-2004; 1st draft 20-09-2007; 2nd draft 18-11-2007; Helen Defense 01-02-2008
 International Postgraduate Studies in Water Technologies (IPSWaT) Scholar (10/04 - 09/07), German Federal Ministry of Education and Research
 Supervisor: Prof. András Bárdossy
 Doctoral research topic: Catchment classification and regional calibration of rainfall runoff models. Pdficon_small.gif PDF Info_circle.jpg
 Other engaged topic: Non-stationary extreme value statistics under climate change scenarios (extreme flood, precipitation and drought).

 Majors undertaken: Urban Hydraulics and Sanitary Engineering; Hydroinformatics and Hydrosystems; Integrated Water Resources Planning and Management.
 Master thesis: Assessment of Predictive Uncertainty associated with the Identification of Model Parameters 
                of a Conceptual Rainfall-Runoff Model (Monte-Carlo Simulation)

 Department of Civil Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China
 Bachelor thesis: A processing design of a secondary municipal wastewater treatment plant in southern China, 
                  conventional activated sludge treating process

Work Experience

09/10 - Lecturer, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of East Anglia
Yi in UEA
10/07 – 09/10 Research Associate
Helen @ King's College London
Work in the NERC FREE funded HydroClimate project and ICUK funded NEWS project
School of Social Science and Public Policy, King's College London, Strand WC2R 2LS, London, UK
Type of organisation/company: high education and research
10/04 – 09/07 Research Assistant and Doctoral Candidate
Institute of Hydraulic Engineering, Universität Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 61, Stuttgart, 70569 Germany
Type of organisation/company: high education and research
12/01 – 03/05 Research Assistant (part-time)
Otto-Graf-Institute, Universität Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 4, Stuttgart, 70569 Germany
Type of organisation/company: academic
06/00 – 08/01 Assistant to General Manager
Marsden Water Treatment Co., Ltd., 505 Jiahui Center, 6 Jiqing Li, 100020 Beijing, China
Type of organisation/company: medium-scale private
02/00 – 05/00 Assistant Manager
Xiaozhuang Store, Beijing McDonald's Food Co., Ltd., Wangfujing Street 200, Beijing, 100005, China
Type of organisation/company: joint-venture
10/98 – 01/00 Technical Support Engineer
Xiaoqing Environmental Protection Group Co., Beijing, China
Type of organisation/company: medium-scale private
07/98 – 09/98 Trainee
Factory of Machinery, Yanshan Petrochemical Co., Ltd., No.2, Yanshangang South Road, Fangshan District, Beijing 102500, China
Type of organisation/company: State Owned Enterprises

Computer knowledge and skills

Hardware: IBM PCs and compatibles
Operating systems: Microsoft Windows and Linux (SUSE and Redhat)
Software: Advanced user of ESRI ArcGIS, DHI MIKE SHE, AutoCAD and Microsoft Office package, OpenOffice package
Programming languages: Advanced programming know-how in MATLAB and FORTRAN; with knowledge of Oracle, C and Visual Basic
Intermediate user of Web API technology
Intermediate WiKi, HTML/XHTML/CSS, PHP and Javascript developer 
developed website examples: http://NEWS.nmpi.net; http://www.HydroClimate.org; http://ensemble.nmpi.net

Community contribution or membership

Chief Editor (2010)
Special Volume in Advances in Geosciences (ADGEO) “Towards practical applications in ensemble hydro-meteorological forecasting” (EGU 2010, Session HS11.4/AS1.22/NH1.12)
Convenor (2010)
European Geosciences Union (EGU) 2010 session HS11.4/AS1.22/NH1.12 “Towards practical applications in ensemble hydro-meteorological forecasting”, Vienna, Austria, 02 – 07 May 2010.
Founding and board member (since 2007)
Numerical Modelling and Policy Interface (NMPI) network, a global initiative dedicated to the development of methods and tools to address disconnect between the development and use of numerical models in the water research and environmental policy formulation and analysis.
Membership
Member of the Hydrological Ensemble Prediction Experiment (HEPEX) group.

Publications

  1. F. Wetterhall, Y. He, H. Cloke, and F. Pappenberger (2011) Effects of temporal resolution of input precipitation on the performance of hydrological forecasting, ADGEO (29): 21-25. PDF
  2. F. Pappenberger, K. Bogner, F. Wetterhall, Y. He, H. L. Cloke, and J. Thielen (2011) Forecast convergence score: a forecaster's approach to analysing hydro-meteorological forecast systems, ADGEO (29): 27-32. PDF
  3. H.-J. Bao, L.-N. Zhao, Y. He, Z.-J. Li, F. Wetterhall, H. L. Cloke, F. Pappenberger, and D. Manful (2011) Coupling ensemble weather predictions based on TIGGE database with Grid-Xinanjiang model for flood forecast, ADGEO (29): 61-67. PDF
  4. He, Y., F. Wetterhall, H.-J. Bao, H.L. Cloke, Z.-J. Li, F. Pappenberger, Y.-Z. Hu, D. Manful, Y.-C. Huang (2010) Ensemble forecasting using TIGGE for the July-September 2008 floods in the Upper Huai catchment - a case study, Atmospheric Science Letters 11(2): 132 - 138 PDF
  5. He, Y., F. Wetterhall, H.L. Cloke, F. Pappenberger, M. Wilson, J. Freer, and G. McGregor (2009) Tracking the uncertainty in flood alerts driven by grand ensemble weather predictions, Meteorological Applications 16(1): 91-101. Pdficon_small.gif PDF Info_circle.jpg
  6. He, Y. and Bárdossy A (to be submitted) A catchment classification scheme using local variance reduction method. Journal of Hydrology
  7. Das T., Bárdossy A., Zehe E. and Y. He (2008) Comparison of model performance using different representations of spatial variability. J. of Hydrology, 356, 1-2, 106-118. doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2008.04.008. Pdficon_small.gif PDF Info_circle.jpg
  8. Bárdossy, A., Brommundt, J., Enzenhöfer, R. und He, Y. (12/05) Untersuchung zur Instationarität von Extremhochwasser an ausgewählten Pegeln Süddeutschlands. (Analysis of non-stationary extreme flood events in selected gauges in southern Germany) Technischer Bericht, - Nr.: 19/2005
  9. He, Y., Manful, D., Bárdossy, A., Dill-Langer, G., Ringger, T., and Aicher, S. (12/04) Fuzzy Logic Based De-Noising of Ultrasound Signals from Non-Destructive Testing. Otto-Graf–Journal. 103-119. ISSN 0938-409X [PDF]
  10. He, Y. (1999) HYS-IV gray water treatment equipment. Xiaoqing Environmental Protection Group Co., Beijing, China

Conference Proceedings and Presentations

  1. He, Y., Wetterhall F., Cloke H., Pappenberger F., Wilson M., Freer J.E., and McGregor G. (04/09) Probabilistic flood warning using grand ensemble weather forecasts. Presentation, European Geosciences Union (EGU) - General Assembly (19 - 24 April 2009, Vienna, Austria), - Vol.: 11, EGU2009-299; HS10.1/AS4.3/NP5.4.
  2. He, Y., Cloke, H., Li, Z., Wetterhall, F., and Pappenberger F. (04/09) Novel early flood warning in the Huaihe River basin in east-central China using the TIGGE database. Poster Session, European Geosciences Union (EGU) - General Assembly (19 - 24 April 2009, Vienna, Austria), - Vol.: 11, EGU2009-792; NP5.1.
  3. Freer, J.E., Cloke, H., He, Y., McGregor G., Pappenberger F., Wetterhall F., Wilson M. (04/08) A cascaded uncertainty framework for cloud-to-catchment flood inundation modelling (solicited). Presentation, European Geosciences Union (EGU) - General Assembly (13 - 18 April 2008, Vienna, Austria), - Vol.: 10, EGU2008-A-11107; NP3.03-1WE3O-004.
  4. Freer, J.E., Cloke, H., He, Y., McGregor G., Pappenberger F., Wetterhall F., Wilson M. (04/08) Assessing uncertainties in climate impact modelling: flood inundation hazard in the Upper Severn catchment, UK. Presentation, European Geosciences Union (EGU) - General Assembly (13 - 18 April 2008, Vienna, Austria), - Vol.: 10, EGU2008-A-11053; NH2.2-1TU2O-004.
  5. He, Y. and Bárdossy A. (07/07) Application of a non-metric and non-parametric classification scheme to catchment hydrology. Oral Presentation, International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) – XXIV General Assembly (07 - 13 July 2007, Perugia, Italy) HW1002 Patterns, thresholds and non-linearities: Towards a new theory of catchment hydrology (Sponsor PUB) Icon-ppt.png Presentation Info_circle.jpg
  6. He, Y. and Bárdossy A. (04/07) Application of a non-parametric regionalization technique to a rainfall runoff model. Poster Session, European Geosciences Union (EGU) - General Assembly (16 - 21 April 2007, Vienna, Austria), - Vol.: 9, EGU2007-A-01985; HS29-1TH3P-0278 Abstract
  7. He, Y., Bárdossy, A. and Brommundt, J. (09/06) Non-Stationary Flood Frequency Analysis in Southern Germany. Oral Presentation, the 7th International Conference on Hydroscience and Engineering (10 - 13 September 2006, Philadelphia, USA) - M2_S6 [PDF]
  8. He, Y. and Bárdossy, A. (09/06) Application of a Nearest Neighbour Method to a Conceptual Rainfall-Runoff Model. Oral Presentation, the 7th International Conference on Hydroscience and Engineering (10 - 13 September 2006, Philadelphia, USA) - M3_S6 [PDF]
  9. Das, T., Bárdossy, A., Zehe, E. and He, Y. (04/06) Comparisons of modelling performance using different representation of spatial variability. Poster Session, European Geosciences Union (EGU) - General Assembly (02 - 08 April 2006, Vienna, Austria), - Vol.: 8, EGU06-A-03546; HS4/9-1WE4P-0240 Abstract
  10. He, Y., Bárdossy, A., Brommundt, J. and Enzenhöfer, R. (04/06) Non-stationary flood frequency analysis in the context of climate variability. Oral Presentation, European Geosciences Union (EGU) - General Assembly (02 - 08 April 2006, Vienna, Austria), - Vol.: 8, EGU06-A-04597; NP3.04-1WE5O-004 Absract
  11. He, Y., Manful, D., Dill-Langer, G., Bárdossy, A. and Aicher, S., (05/05) Application of Fuzzy Logic to Signal Processing of Ultrasound Measurement. Oral Presentation, S8-New Development in US Evaluation, Proc. of the 14th Int. Symposium on Nondestructive Testing of Wood. 275-286 pp (ISBN 3-8322-3949-9) [PDF]
  12. He, Y., Wu, Y., Fu, Y., Tan X. (05/97) Instructional Software of Microbiology in Environmental Engineering. Extracurricular Academic and Scientific Works Contest, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China

Awards

  • 08/09-07/10 Proof of Concept grant by the Innovation China UK (ICUK), the first UK-China collaboration programme, in collaboration with Prof. Zhijia Li, Head of Dept of Hydrology and Water Resources of Hohai University and Mr. Yuzhong Hu, Chief Engineer of Hydrological Bureau of Anhui Province, to develop a Novel Early flood Warning and Risk Assessment System NEWS
  • 01/09-04/09 Partnership grant by the Innovation China UK (ICUK), the first UK-China collaboration programme, to joint develop a Novel Early flood Warning and Risk Assessment System NEWS
  • 10/04-09/07 Scholarship granted by the International Postgraduate Studies in Water Technologies (IPSWaT) program of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
  • 05/98 Reward of the 3rd. prize in the First Science and Technology Items Contest of Tianjin University
  • 11/97 Fellowship awarded by Petrochemical Engineering School of Tianjin University
  • 05/97 Reward of the 2nd. Prize in the first “Tiancai Cup” College Students’ Extracurricular Academic and Scientific Works Contest, and participant in the National College Software Competition.
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