Curriculum Vitae

KE-SHENG CHENG, Ph.D.

Title                                Professor
Mailing Address           
    Department of Bioenvironmental Systems Engineering
    National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Telephone                    +886-2-2366-1568
Facsimile                      +886-2-2363-5854
E-mail                            rslab@ntu.edu.tw

EDUCATION
Ph.D. – Agricultural and Biological Engineering Department, University of
Florida
M.S. – Agricultural Engineering Department, National Taiwan University
B.S. – Agricultural Engineering Department, National Taiwan University

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
      
    Professor, Department of Bioenvironmental Systems Engineering,
    National Taiwan University (current position)

    Associate editor, Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (TAO)
    (current position)

        Managing Editor, International Journal of Paddy and Water Environment
        (PWE) (current position)

    Guest Professor, Division of Environmental Science and Technology,
    Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Japan.

    Chairperson, Department of Bioenvironmental Systems Engineering,
    National Taiwan University,
   
    Guest Professor, Division of Environmental Science and Technology,
    Faculty of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Japan

    Visiting Scholar, Department of Geography, University of Southampton,
    United Kingdom.

    Secretary General of the Chinese Society of Agricultural Engineers
    (CSAE-Taiwan)
       
    Associate Professor, Agricultural Engineering Department, National
    Taiwan University
   
    Courtesy Professor, Mathematics Department, University of Florida
       
    Division Head, Extension Division, Hydrotech Research Institute,
    National Taiwan University

SPECIALIZATIONS
Remote sensing applications to hydrology, water resources management and
environmental monitoring
Stochastic hydrology
Hydrological modeling and design
Spatial statistics and spatial modeling

CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS
Evaluation of reservoir water quality and trophic state using satellite imagery.
Landslides identification and landuse change detection using satellite
imagery.
Scaling-up in hydrologic processes using remote sensing and spatial
statistics.
Random field simulation for probabilistic evaluation of lake trophic state.
Identifying zones of heavy metal contamination using multiple support
samples and kriging estimation.
Monitoring network design – comparative study of kriging approach and
information entropy approach.
Design storm hyetograph modeling
Channel network analysis

COURSES TAUGHT
Undergraduate level
        Hydrology
        Statistics
        Applied Hydrology
        Computer-Aided Hydrologic Design
        Open Channel Hydraulics

Graduate level
        Remote Sensing
        Remote Sensing in Hydrology
        Quantitative Remote Sensing
        Bioenvironmental Remote Sensing
        Estimation Theories and Their Applications in Hydrology
        Time Series Analysis
        Geostatistics
        Ecological Engineering
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