Chao Chen

Background

About Chao Chen

PE in Washington State- Experienced in hydraulic design, H&H modeling, result analysis, and report writing for Fish Passage projects in Preliminary Hydraulic design (PHD) and Final Hydraulic Design (FHD); more than 10 crossings- Experienced in Flood Risk Assessment (FRA) and bridge scour calculation using Hydraulic Toolbox- Experienced in Flood Insurance Study, including both H&H modeling and floodplain mapping- Experienced in Rapid Inundation Mapping (RIM), using RAS 2D- Proficient in SRH2D and RAS hydraulic modeling; HSPF hydrologic modeling; streamflow frequency analysis- Proficient in surface water simulation (Parflow, PRMS, HEC-HMS) and groundwater simulation (MODFLOW)- Experienced in RiverWare modeling - reservoir operation and optimization tool- Skilled in data processing, analyses, and management (ArcGIS, R, Python, SQL)- Experienced water resources engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the higher education industry (SWWM)- Strong numerical modeling skills and experiences in physical-based parameter distributed hydrologic modeling, as well as analytical analysis skills in data pre-processing, post-processing, calibration, and validation- Experienced in data computational processing on cluster and HPC, working with Python language and Linux system.