Xilin Xia
Associate Professor In Resilience Engineering
Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolXilin 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
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Road and Railway Engineering, Master's degree, Road and Railway Engineering at Wuhan UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Civil Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Civil Engineering at Newcastle University
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Github Skills (32)
hydrology10
meteorology7
satellite-imagery7
climate-science7
python-client7
cuda6
earth-science6
inteloneapi6
sycl6
stl6
geodesy6
earth-observation6
journal6
baidu5
earth-engine5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
SynxFlow/SynxFlow
Oct 2023 - Mar 2025
Simulates flood, landslide and debris flow dynamically using GPUs
Contributions:2 releases, 5 PRs, 63 pushes in 1 year 6 months
debrisflowfloodlandslidemodelling
pypims/pypims
Jun 2020 - Oct 2022
Contributions:46 commits, 34 pushes, 18 comments in 2 years 4 months
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