Gang Yang is a Lecturer at the School of Marine Sciences, Nanjing University of Information Science and
Technology. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Geo-Information Science and Technology (Marine Mapping) from Ocean University of China in 2016, and then earned his master’s and Ph.D. degrees in Coastal and Physical Oceans from the University of New South Wales in 2018 and 2022, respectively. He won third place in the Outstanding Young Scientist Award at the 12th International Workshop on Modeling the Ocean, held at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor, USA. He is mainly engaged in research on nearshore dynamics and sediment transport, wave–current coupling, marine hazards, numerical modeling, coastal engineering, etc.
Jianting Zhu is a Professor of Civil Engineering at the Department of Civil & Architectural Engineering,
College of Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of Wyoming, and is the Director of the Center for Computational Hydrology and Hydrosciences. He earned his B.S. in Engineering Mechanics from Zhejiang University, his M.S. in Fluid Mechanics from Peking University, a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Dalhousie University, and completed his postdoctoral research in Civil Engineering at the University of Waterloo. He won the 2017 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Research Spotlight and the 2016 American Society of Civil Engineers Irrigation & Drainage Council Honorable Mention. His main research interests include vadose zone hydrology, groundwater hydrology, hydrological modeling, stochastic
hydrology, contaminant transport, uncertainty and climate change, ecohydrology, and soil physics.
