Sustainable water resources management and decision support systems

Multiphase flow and multicomponent transport in porous media

Contaminant source identification

Modeling and management of karst aquifer systems

Performance assessment for geologic CO2 storage

Optimization and inversion techniques

B.S. Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, 1995

M.S. Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, 1996

Ph.D. Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, 2000

Research Engineer—Southwest Research Institute, 2003–2011

Environmental Engineer—SUNDA Environmental Technologies, LLC, 2000-2003

Environmental Engineer—Tetra Tech Inc., 1999–2000

Research Fellow—Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1998–1999

Sun, A. Y., and Nicot, J. -P., 2012, Inversion of pressure anomaly data for detecting leakage at geologic carbon sequestration sites: Advances in Water Resources, v. 44, p. 20?29.

Sun, A. Y., Green, R., Swenson, S., and Rodell, M., 2012, Toward calibration of regional groundwater models using GRACE data: Journal of Hydrology, v. 422?423, p. 1?9.

Liu, Y., Sun, A. Y., Nelson, K., and Hipke, W. E., 2012, Cloud computing for integrated stochastic groundwater uncertainty analysis: International Journal of Digital Earth, v. 5, no. 5, p. 1?25. DOI:10.1080/17538947.2012.687778.

Sun, A. Y., 2011, Identification of geologic fault network geometry by using a grid-based ensemble Kalman filter: Journal of Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste, v. 15, no. 4, p. 228?233.

Sun, A. Y., Green, R., Rodell, M., and Swenson, S., 2010, Inferring aquifer storage parameters using satellite and in situ measurements: estimation under uncertainty: Geophysical Research Letters, v. 37, L10401.

Sun, A. Y., Morris, A., and Mohanty, S., 2009, Sequential updating of multimodal hydrogeologic parameter fields using localization and clustering techniques: Water Resources Research, v. 45, W07424.

Sun, A. Y., Morris, A., and Mohanty, S., 2009, Comparison of deterministic ensemble Kalman filters for assimilating hydrogeologic data: Advances in Water Resources, v. 32, no. 2, p. 280–292.