Ashish Shrestha, Ph.D.

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. My Ph.D. dissertation titled Advances in Urban Flood Management: Addressing Data Uncertainty, Data Gaps, and Adaptation Planning (ProQuest Link) addressed the challenges of limited and uncertain data in urban flood modeling by developing methods to improve model reliability, leverage novel data sources to advance hydrologic-hydraulic modeling, and support model-based, flexible green infrastructure planning. I completed my postdoctoral research under the supervision of Dr. Christopher M Chini at the Infrastructure Risk and Adaptation Lab, Air Force Institute of Technology. I am currently a Senior Research Fellow in Urban Flood Vulnerability at the Urban Systems Lab, The New School.

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), geographic information system & remote sensing, computational methods, numerical models, infrastructure adaptation, 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)

recent updates

	Presented at ASCE's EWRI - 2024 World Environmental & Water Resources Congress on May 21st, 2024 Title: High-resolution Hydrodynamic Observations to Inform Decision-making in Interdependent Coastal Stormwater System Authors: Ashish Shrestha, Christopher M Chini
	Presented poster at AFIT's CE Summit on March 8th, 2024 Title: Climate Risk Analysis for USAF Installations: Flooding and Heat Authors: Ashish Shrestha, Eric G Mbonimpa, Christopher M Chini
	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

	Leveraging catchment scale automated novel data collection infrastructure to advance urban hydrologic-hydraulic modeling Ashish Shrestha, Margaret Garcia, Eck Doerry Environmental Modelling & Software, 2024
	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
	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