Bilibili (Research Sharing)Welcome to Tianlong Jia’s Homepage!
I am working as a Postdoctoral researcher at Institute of Water and Environment (IWU), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany. My research focuses on artificial intelligence(AI), hydrology, water resources, and water environment.
My official webpage is here.
If you are a master student/intern hunting at KIT for a topic about AI in hydrology, water management or environment monitoring, I am glad to have a discussion/talk with you about a potential idea.
Research Interests
My primary research interests are in emerging problems related to smart water management, environment monitoring, and artificial intelligence research, including:
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Deep learning
- Self-supervised learning, and contrastive learning
- Vision-Language Model (VLM), and Large Language Model (LLM)
- Foundation Model
- Time series forecasting
- Computer vision
- Hydrology and water resources
- Flood forecasting in watersheds
- Urban flood detection
- Optimal operation of hydropower reservoirs
- Hydroinformatics
- Hydrodynamic simulation
- Water environment monitoring
- Floating macroplastics monitoring
- Water quality prediction in watersheds
- Earth observation
- Remote sensing
Projects
- KI-HopE-De - AI-based flood prediction in small river basins in Germany, funded by German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR) (2025-current)
- AI-based detecting and quantification of floating macroplastic litter in rivers and urban waterways in the Netherlands, funded by TUD and Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management (RWS) (2020-2025)
- Optimal reservoir operation in the upper and middle reaches of the Yangtze River, China, considering power generation, flood control, and navigation demands (The National Key R&D Program of China), funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China (2017–2020)
Education
- Delft University of Technology (TUD) (2020-2025)
- Ph.D., AidroLab, AI for sustainable water management, the Netherlands
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence and Environment monitoring
- Supervisor: Dr. Riccardo Taormina, Prof. Zoran Kapelan, and Rinze de Vries
- Huazhong University of Science and Technology (2017-2020)
- M.Sc., School of Hydropower and Information Engineering, China
- Focus: Optimized scheduling of hydropower for reservoirs
- Supervisor: Prof. Jianzhong Zhou, Prof. Dong Yan, and Prof. Hui Qin
- Harbin Engineering University (2013-2017)
- B.S., College of Shipbuilding Engineering, China
- Focus: Port & Waterway and Coastal Engineering
Contact
- E-mail: Tianlong.Jia@kit.edu
- Office: Room 420.3, Building 10.81, Otto-Ammann-Platz 1, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
I am always open to collaborations and interesting conversations, and can be best reached by email.