This is Meilian, a Ph.D. student at National University of Singapore working to develop adaptive land-use strategies for sustainability. I work at the intersection of Engineering, Economics, Artificial Intelligence, Environmental Policy, and Data Science.
My Ph.D. research focuses on adaptive spatial optimization for the Water-Food-Energy-Ecosystems nexus, especially under climate change, through some advanced methods such as Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) and Large Language Models (LLM). The objective of my research is to inform when, where, and which action is the best to achieve multiple benefits across sectors and scales.
🤩 Research Interests
- Water-Food-Energy Nexus
- Water resource management
- Spatial Optimization
- Reinforcement learning
- Large Language Models
🔥 News
- 2024.10.03: 🎖️ Outstanding Student Poster Award in the 25th Conference on Computational Methods in Water Resources (CMWR 2024)!
- 2024.06.28: 🎖️ Best Student Poster Award in the 21st Annual Meeting Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS)!
- 2024.05.21: 🎉 Pass PhD Oral Qualifying Examination.
- 2024.01.31: 📍 Present my first PhD seminar.
- 2024.01.22: 🎖️ Honored with the Department Excellent TA (Teaching Assistant) Award!
- 2023.03.09: 🎉 Pass PhD Comprehensive Qualifying Examination.
📖 Educations
- 2022.08 - now, Ph.D. student, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
- 2018.09 - 2022.07, Bachelor of Business Administration, Tianjin University, Tianjin.
- 2018.09 - 2022.07, Bachelor of Science, Tianjin University, Tianjin.
📝 Publications
🌟 Visit the website for my Ph.D. projects
✍🏼 Working Manuscript
Mitigating the dual pressure of water and land scarcity through multi-benefit spatial optimization (in preparation)
Meilian Li and Xiaogang He
Project
- This model is released on Github:
🙋🏻♀️ Conferences
- 2024.10 25th Conference on Computational Methods in Water Resources (CMWR 2024), in Tucson, Arizona, USA
- 2024.06 21st Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS) Annual Meeting, in Pyeongchang, South Korea
🎖 Honors and Awards
Graduate
- 2024 CMWR2024 Outstanding Student Poster Award.
- 2024 AOGS2024 Best Student Poster Award.
- 2024 Department Excellent TA (Teaching Assistant) Award.
Undergraduate
- 2021 National “Bao Gang” Education Fund Scholarship.
- 2021 The 16th “Challenge Cup” National College Students’ Extracurricular Academic Science and Technology Contest - Grand Prize.
- 2021 China International College Students’ “Internet+” Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition - Silver Award.
- 2021 Student Technology Excellence Award.
- 2020 Tianjin Entrepreneurship Scholarship.
- 2020 Chuxin Scholarship.
- 2020 Mathematical Contest in Modeling - Meritorious Winner.
- 2019 Tianjin Municipal People’s Government Scholarship.
- 2019 The 2nd National College Student Sports Industry Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition - Second Prize.
- 2019 The 15th Tianjin Women’s Entrepreneurship and Innovation Competition - Winning Prize.