Main research interests：
1. Urban flood simulation and risk analysis
2. Watershed ecological hydrology
Representative research projects：
1. EPSRC, BRIM: Building Resilience Into Risk Management
2. British Council, Global Innovation Initiative: Flood impact assessment in mega cities under urban sprawl and climate change
Selected publications:
1. Wang, Y., Meng, F., Liu, H., Zhang, C., & Fu, G. (2019). Assessing catchment scale flood resilience of urban areas using a grid cell based metric. Water research, 163, 114852.
2. Wang, Y., Chen, A. S., Fu, G., Djordjević, S., Zhang, C., & Savić, D. A. (2018). An integrated framework for high-resolution urban flood modelling considering multiple information sources and urban features. Environmental modelling & software, 107, 85-95.
3. Zhang, C., Wang, Y*., Li, Y., & Ding, W. (2017). Vulnerability analysis of urban drainage systems: Tree vs. loop Networks. Sustainability, 9(3), 397.
4. Liu, H., Wang, Y*., Zhang, C., Chen, A. S., & Fu, G. (2018). Assessing real options in urban surface water flood risk management under climate change. Natural Hazards, 94(1), 1-18.
5. Qiu, W., Meng, F., Wang, Y., Fu, G., He, J., Savic, D., & Zhao, H. (2018). Assessing spatial and temporal variations in regional sustainability in mainland China from 2004 to 2014. Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy, 20(6), 1185-1194.
6. Tang, R., Ding, W., Ye, L., Wang, Y., & Zhou, H. (2019). Tradeoff analysis index for many-objective reservoir optimization. Water Resources Management, 33(13), 4637-4651.
7. Tang, R., Li, K., Ding, W., Wang, Y., Zhou, H., & Fu, G. (2020). Reference Point Based Multi-Objective Optimization of Reservoir Operation: a Comparison of Three Algorithms. Water Resources Management, 34(3), 1005-1020.
8. Zhao, M., Zhang, C., Liu, H., Fu, G., & Wang, Y. (2020). Optimal sensor placement for pipe burst detection in water distribution systems using cost–benefit analysis. Journal of Hydroinformatics, 22(3), 606-618.