Dr. Xixi Wang , P.E.

Dr. Xixi Wang, P.E., is a professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Old Dominion University (ODU) in Norfolk, Virginia. Prior to his current role, he served as an associate professor at ODU and an assistant professor at Tarleton State University in Stephenville, Texas. His diverse professional experience includes roles as a research scientist at the Energy and Environmental Research Center (EERC) at University of North Dakota in Grand Forks, North Dakota, a civil engineer at Michael Baker Jr. Inc. in Alexandria, Virginia, and a graduate research and teaching assistant at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa. He also previously held a faculty position as an assistant professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. Dr. Wang has extensive teaching and research experience in hydrology, hydraulics, and water resources engineering. His research focuses on the impacts of climate change and human activities on water resources, the water-soil-vegetation nexus in a changing climate, and watershed hydrology and stormwater management. He has published extensively, including numerous peer-reviewed journal articles, conference presentations, technical reports, books, and book chapters. Dr. Wang earned his bachelor’s (1989) and master’s (1993) degrees in Hydrology and Water Resources Engineering from Tsinghua University and a Ph.D. degree in Agricultural Engineering (minor in Statistics) from Iowa State University in 2001. He has been a registered professional engineer in North Dakota (#5145) since 2003 and in Texas (#99798) from 2007 to 2011. Among his many honors and awards, Dr. Wang is a 2022-2023 U.S.-Australia Fulbright Scholar at University of Canberra, Australia.