Dr. Peishi Jiang
Assistant Professor
Contact
- 2021 H.M. Comer
- phone (205) 348-6850
Education
- Ph.D., Civil Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2019
- M.Phil, Civil Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, 2013
- B.E., Water Resources & Ocean Engineering, Zhejiang University, 2011
Peishi Jiang is an assistant professor in the Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering. Previously, he was a research scientist at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. As a hydrologist, he specializes in the study of complex watershed systems through novel data-driven methods and hybrid physics-AI approaches. His research interests center on integrating cutting-edge data science techniques into watershed studies.
Affiliated Areas
Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering
Selected Publications
- Peishi Jiang, Patrick Kidger, Toshiyuki Bandai, Dennis Baldocchi et al. (2025), “JAX-CanVeg: A Differentiable Land Surface Model”, Water Resources Research.
- Peishi Jiang, Zhao Yang, Jiali Wang, Chenfu Huang, Pengfei Xue, TC Chakraborty, Xingyuan Chen, and Yun Qian (2023), “Efficient Super-Resolution of Near-Surface Climate Modeling Using the Fourier Neural Operator”, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems.
- Peishi Jiang, Pin Shuai, Alexandar Sun, Maruti K Mudunuru, and Xingyuan Chen (2023), “Knowledge-Informed Deep Learning for Hydrological Model Calibration: An Application to Coal Creek Watershed in Colorado”, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences.
- Peishi Jiang and Praveen Kumar (2019) “Information Transfer from Causal History in Complex System Dynamics”, Physical Review E.
- Peishi Jiang, Mostafa Elag, Praveen Kumar, Scott Dale Peckham, Luigi Marini, and Liu Rui (2017) “A Service-oriented Architecture for Coupling Web Service Models Using the Basic Model Interface (BMI)”, Environmental Modelling & Software.
Awards and Honors
- Bestie Award, Earth and Biological Sciences Directorate, PNNL, 2020 and 2023
- Award of Merit, NASA Frontier Development Laboratory Program, 2021