xilin xia
Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorXilin Xia is an Associate Professor in Resilience Engineering at the University of Birmingham with 11 years’ experience developing computational models for natural hazards and infrastructure risk. He blends computational hydraulics, high-performance computing and machine learning to model hydraulic, hydrological and geotechnical processes across natural and urban environments, and is the author of the open-source SynxFlow model. A Turing Fellow and co-winner of the Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water, he combines academic leadership—now serving as Associate Editor for Journal of Flood Risk Management and Journal of Hydrology—with hands-on software development. His work emphasizes holistic, scalable modelling tools aimed at enhancing resilience to extreme-weather hazards, and he often brings production-grade code and HPC workflows into research practice.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (20)
flooding10
hydrology10
cuda8
climate-science8
satellite-imagery8
meteorology8
journal7
earth-observation7
geospatial7
python7
earth-science7
open-access7
creative-commons6
academia5
raster4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
pypims/pypims
Jun 2020 - Oct 2022
Python APIs for hipims
Contributions:46 commits, 34 pushes, 18 comments in 2 years 4 months
pythonfloodingfloodflood-modelling
HEMLab/HiPIMS-CUDA
Apr 2020 - Oct 2022
High-Performance Integrated Hydrodynamic Modelling System (HiPIMS-CUDA) for flood modelling
Contributions:3 releases, 42 commits, 56 pushes in 2 years 6 months
cudaflood-modellinghydrologylandslidesimulation
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