Doctor, Associate Professor, Assistant Director,

Xi'an University of Technology,

Faculty of Water Resources and Hydroelectric Engineering

Research interests: Water Resources Optimal allocation

Email: baitao@xaut.edu.cn    

Personal website:  http://whe.xaut.edu.cn/info/1029/1751.htm

Brief Introduction about main academic achievements and key publications

In brief, research fields include water resources management, hydrological modelling and simulation, and flood and drought risk assessment and management. I have presided over and participated more than 30 research projects in the utilization and management of water resources in arid and semi-arid areas of Northwest China, including the 973 Project of the National Major Basic Research Program, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and the Open Fund of State Key Laboratory of China. I have made the main academic achievements in the aspects of reservoir optimal operation, integrated water resources management, intelligent decision support system of reservoir system, and the risk assessment and management of water resources system.

I won First Prize and Excellence Award in  provincial and ministerial lecture competition and 5 provincial and ministerial scientific research awards, such as First Prize of scientific and technological progress in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Second Prize of Shaanxi Province Science and Technology (Ranked first), excellent performances both in teaching and scientific research.

For key publications, I made 6 presentations at international conferences and published more than 80 papers, among which 16 SCI papers, 6 Ei papers have been published as the first or corresponding author, and 2 papers have been highly cited. I published 3 monographs and 1 undergraduate textbook of “Generality to Water Conservancy Engineering" as Editor-in-chief, authorized 6 national invention patents in the past 5 years.