John D. Tickle Professor
University of Tennessee
Dr. Joshua Fu is the John D. Tickle Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Inaugural Professor of the UT-ORNL Bredesen Center at the University of Tennessee, Joint Appointment Professor at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The focus of Fu’s research work includes climate change impacts on energy infrastructure, air pollution, water availability, and extreme events like heatwave, floods, and drought, and human health. Additional focus is to utilize artificial intelligence (AI) and data mining techniques on climate change, human health, and mapping global total atmospheric deposition. Fu has served Vice-Chair of the Measurement-Model Fusion for the Global Total Atmospheric Deposition Initiative of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), contributed as a co-author of the Final Report of the Hemispheric Transport of Air Pollution for the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, and reviewing committee member for air quality status in East Asia for the EANET. He also was a co-author of Technical Report, Climate Change and Infrastructure, Urban System, and Vulnerability, to DOE in the support of the National Climate Assessment in 2012. He contributed climate modeling results for IPCC AR5 based on RCP 4.5 and 8.5 scenarios. He is one of the initiators for the Air Benefit and Attainment Assessment Cost System (ABaCAS) that has been used internationally. Fu has published more than 170 referred journal articles and 110 peer-reviewed conference proceedings. He has been an invited speaker and lecturer more than 100 times in Asia, Europe, and the US. Also, and numerous media. He is a recipient of the Fellow of AAAS and the Fellow of the A&WA, and Board Certified Environmental Engineer Member of the AAEES. Fu obtained his Ph.D. from North Carolina State University, MS from UCLA, and BS from Taiwan’s National Cheng Kung University.
Thursday, June 17, 2021
3:20pm – 5:20pm US EDT
Thursday, June 17, 2021
4:20pm – 4:40pm US EDT