Urban coastal flood prediction, Wave runup and overtopping, Coastal hazards, Sea level rise, Flood control infrastructure and mitigation methods, Nearshore remote sensing and observation.

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• Santa Monica’s Waves Have Turned A Bright Pink. How Can The Dye Job Improve Water Quality? | LA Times, Santa Monica Closeup YouTube, KCAL, KTLA, NBCLA, ABC7, WUSA (DC) and LA Magazine, September 2025
• The Dangers of Rebuilding the Malibu Coastline. Should We Do it Anyway | LAist, March 2025
• These Beaches Are Among LA’s Favourites. But They’re Fake | BBC, October 2024
• LA County Supervisors to Vote on a Plan to Stop Beach Erosion | Los Angeles Daily News, November 2023

• Ph.D., (2012), University of California, Irvine
• M.S., (2008), Purdue University
• B.S., (1996), Purdue University

• 2021: Professor of the Year, UCLA Student Chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

C&EE 151: Introduction to Water Resources Engineering C&EE 157A: Hydrologic Modeling C&EE 298: Coastal Process Modeling