CURRICULUM VITAE

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Ecohydrology, catchment hydrology, critical zone science, hydro-epidemiology, radar remote sensing

EDUCATION

• Ph.D., Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2016
• M.S., Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2011
• B.E., Hydrology and Water Resources, Vietnam Water Resources University, 2006

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

• Lecturer, Hydrology and Water Resources, Vietnam National University, 2017-present
• Research scientist, Vietnam Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology, 2006-2009

COURSES TAUGHT

• HMO6041: Computational Methods in Hydrology
• GEO3209: Hydroclimatology
• HMO3059: Hydrologic Modeling

AWARDS

• Computational Science and Engineering Fellowship, University of Illinois (2013)
• Vietnam Education Foundation Fellowship (2009)

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

1. Phong V.V. Le, Praveen Kumar, Darren T. Drewry (2011). Implications for the hydrologic cycle under climate change due to the expansion of bioenergy crops in the Midwestern United States. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108 (37): 1508515090, doi:10.1073/pnas.1107177108
2. Phong V.V. Le, Praveen Kumar, Darren T. Drewry, Juan C. Quijano (2012). A graphical user interface for numerical modeling of acclimation responses of vegetation to climate change. Computers & Geosciences, 49:91101, doi:10.1016/j.cageo.2012.07.007
3. Phong V.V. Le, Praveen Kumar (2014). Power-law scaling of topographic depressions and their hydrologic connectivity. Geophysical Research Letters, 41, doi:10.1002/2013GL059114 

4. Phong V.V. Le, Praveen Kumar, Hoang-Vu Dang, Albert J. Valocchi (2015). GPU-based high- performance computing for integrated surface-subsurface flow modeling. Environmental Modeling & Software., 73:1-13, doi:10.1016/j.envsoft.2015.07.015
5. Reshmina William, Allison Goodwell, Meredith Richardson, Phong V.V. Le, Praveen Kumar, Ashlynn S. Stillwell (2016). An environmental cost-benefit analysis of alternative roofing strategies. Ecological Engineering., 95:1-9, doi:10.1016/j.ecoleng.2016.06.091
6. Trisha Rentschler, Phong V.V. Le, and Surendra Karki (2015). Identification of potential larval habitat for Culex mosquitoes in South Cook County, Illinois. ESRI Map Book, Volume 30.
7. Phong V.V. Le, Praveen Kumar (2017). Interaction between ecohydrologic dynamics and microtopographic variability under climate change. Water Resources Research, doi:10.1002/2017WR020377
8. Praveen Kumar, Phong V.V. Le, A.N. Thanos Papanicolaou, Bruce L. Rhoads, Alison M. Anders, Andrew Stumpf, Christopher G. Wilson, E. Arthur Bettis III, Neal Blair, Adam S. Ward, Timothy Filley, Henry Lin, Laura Keefer, Donald A. Keefer, Yu-Feng Lin, Marian Muste, Todd V. Royer, Efi Foufoula-Georgiou, Patrick Belmont (2018). Critical Transition in Critical Zone of Intensively Managed Landscapes, Anthropocene, doi.org/10.1016/j.ancene.2018.04.002
9. Phong V.V. Le, Praveen Kumar, Marilyn O. Ruiz (2018). Stochastic lattice-based modeling of malaria dynamics. Malaria Journal, 17(1). doi:10.1186/s12936-018-2397-z
10. Leonardo E. Bertassello, P. Suresh C. Rao, James W. Jawitz, Gianluca Botter, Phong V.V. Le, Praveen Kumar and Antoine F. Aubeneau (2018). Wetlandscape fractal topography. Geophysical Research Letters, 45, doi.org/10.1029/2018GL079094
11. Qina Yan, Phong V.V. Le, Dong K. Woo, Tingyu Hou, Timothy, R. Filley, and Praveen Kumar (2019). 3‐D Modeling of the Co‐evolution of Landscape and Soil Organic Carbon. Water Resources Research, doi.org/10.1029/2018WR023634
12. Phong V.V. Le, Praveen Kumar, Marilyn O. Ruiz, Charles Mbogo, Ephatus J. Muturi (2019). Predicting the direct and indirect impacts of climate change on malaria in coastal Kenya. PLOS One 14(2): e0211258, doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0211258
13. Phong V.V. Le, Tan Phan-Van, Khiem V. Mai, Duc Q. Tran (2019). Space–time variability of drought over Vietnam. International Journal of Climatology, 1-15, doi.org/10.1002/joc.6164
14. Phong V.V. Le, Praveen Kumar (2019). Complexity of malaria dynamics under climate change. Atlas
    of Science.
15. Ming Li, Erika J. Foster, Phong V.V. Le, Qina Yan, Andrew Stumpf, Tingyu Hou, A.N. (Thanos) Papanicolaou, Kenneth M. Wacha, Christopher G. Wilson, Jingkuan Wang, Praveen Kumar, Timothy Filley (2020). A new dynamic wetness index (DWI) predicts soil moisture persistence and correlates with key indicators of surface soil geochemistry. Geoderma, 368. doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2020.114239

PROJECTS

1. 2018 - 2019 (Co-PI): A Data-Driven Approach to Explain the Interplay Between Groundwater and Wildfire in the United States (Funding DRI).
2. 2018 - 2020 (Co-PI): Land loss and its impacts on agricultural production in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta under climate change (Funding: Nafosted).
3. 2015 - 2016 (Co-PI): Extreme-scale modeling - Understanding ecohydrologic dynamics under climate change (Funding: NCSA) 
4. 2013 - 2018 (Member): Critical Zone Observatory for Intensively Managed Landscapes (Funding: NSF)
5. 2013 - 2014 (Co-PI): Integration of biological, epidemiological, mathematical and engineering approaches to the management of mosquito-borne disease: An interdisciplinary global challenge (Funding: UIUC).
6. 2009 - 2012 (Member): Biotic alteration of soil hydrologic properties and feedback with vegetation dynamics in water limited ecosystems (Funding: NSF).
7. 2008 - 2009 (Member): Numerical methods for parameter estimation in river modeling: A case study for the Red river basin, Vietnam (Funding: MONRE).
8. 2007 - 2008 (Member): Master plan on water resources in Vietnam Northern Economic Zone (Funding: MONRE)
9. 2007 - 2008 (Member): Identification of oil spill in South China Sea (Funding: MONRE)
10. 2007 (Member): Prediction of waste and water quality in Phu Quoc island (Funding: SEMLA).
11. 2007 (Member): Simulation of thermal transmission in Hau river affected by the O-Mon thermal power plant (Funding: ADB).
12. 2006 (Member): Water quality modeling and managements for three river basins in Vietnam: Cau, Nhue- Day, and Sai Gon-Dong Nai (Funding: ADB).
13. 2005 - 2006 (Member): Environmental impacts assessment of Mong Duong thermal power generation project (Funding: ADB).