Rate My Professor Albert Chen

Professor Chen leads multiple research projects funded by EU Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe, with grants exceeding £3 million, including ARSINOE, WATERLINE, WATERVERSE, ULTIMATE, RECONECT, RESCCUE, SIM4NEXUS, and others addressing urban flood management, climate resilience, digital twins, and nature-based solutions. He co-leads the Policy Action Group of the European Commission’s ICT4Water cluster, contributing policy recommendations on ICT in water sectors. As a Turing Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute (2021-2023), he advanced data science and AI in water research; as UK Senior Expert in NERC Digital Environment Expert Network (2021-2023), he developed digital environment concepts. Key publications include "From hazard to impact: the flood damage assessment tools for mega cities" (Natural Hazards, 2016), "Modelling sewer discharge via displacement of manhole covers during flood events using 1D/2D SIPSON/P-DWave dual drainage simulations" (Urban Water Journal, 2015), "Formulation of a fast 2D urban pluvial flood model using a cellular automata approach" (Journal of Hydroinformatics, 2013), and "Multi-layered coarse grid modelling in 2D urban flood simulations" (Journal of Hydrology, 2012). He serves as Associate Editor for Journal of Hydroinformatics (2022-) and Urban Water Journal (2017-), and editorial board member for Cambridge Prisms: Water (2023-) and Journal of Flood Risk Management (2020-). Awards include Royal Academy of Engineering President's Special Awards for Pandemic Service (2020), EUvsVirus Hackathon Winner (2020), and University of Exeter Merit Awards (2010-2017). He coordinates international workshops and delivers invited lectures on water resilience.