Ashish Shrestha, Ph.D.

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I am a Water and Environmental Engineer with a Ph.D. in Civil, Environmental, and Sustainable Engineering from the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University, where my research was supervised by Dr. Margaret Garcia in the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment. Currently, I am completing my postdoctoral research under the supervision of Dr. Christopher M Chini at the Infrastructure Risk and Adaptation Lab, Air Force Institute of Technology.

My work focuses on water and environmental systems, including urban and natural watershed hydrology, hydrodynamics, water systems modeling, hydroinformatics, sustainability and resilience, systems science (in environment, water, energy, and human dimensions), climate change, and environmental engineering. I address the challenges of planning, managing, and adapting water systems in a changing world. I achieve this by advancing hydrological and hydrodynamic modeling techniques and applying these tools to develop frameworks and resources that support decision-making in water and environmental systems management and infrastructure planning. I am driven by a commitment to bridge between science, policy, and practice.

For any further details, I invite you to reach out to me directly through email (ashres15@asu.edu)

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Presented at ASCE's EWRI - 2024 World Environmental & Water Resources Congress on

Title: High-resolution Hydrodynamic Observations to Inform Decision-making in Interdependent Coastal Stormwater System

Authors: Ashish Shrestha, Christopher M Chini
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Presented poster at AFIT's CE Summit on

Title: Climate Risk Analysis for USAF Installations: Flooding and Heat

Authors: Ashish Shrestha, Eric G Mbonimpa, Christopher M Chini
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Presented at AGU 2023

Title: Improved hydrological observations and modeling to advance risk-based coastal stormwater infrastructure adaptation

Authors: Ashish Shrestha, Christopher M Chini

selected publications

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Leveraging catchment scale automated novel data collection infrastructure to advance urban hydrologic-hydraulic modeling

Ashish Shrestha, Margaret Garcia, Eck Doerry

Environmental Modelling & Software, 2024
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A review of climate change induced flood impacts and adaptation of coastal infrastructure systems in the United States

Ashish Shrestha, Gregory J Howland, Christopher M Chini

Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability, 2023
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Influence of precipitation uncertainty and land use change on the optimal catchment scale configuration of green stormwater infrastructure

Ashish Shrestha, Margaret Garcia

Journal of Sustainable Water in the Built Environment, 2023