Bio
Dr. Xilin Xia is an Assistant Professor in Resilience Engineering at the University of Birmingham since May 2022. He finished his PhD in 2017 at Newcastle University, and later worked as a post-doc at the same university and a lecturer at Loughborough University. His research focuses on modelling and predicting climate and weather-related risks to infrastructure and built environment. He has been developing both physics and AI based models to simulate natural hazards such as floods, landslides, and mud/debris flows, and apply them for risk assessment and early warning.
He is leading the UKRI-funded STORMS project to develop a computational framework on the DAFNI platform to assess the risk of UK’s underground infrastructure to extreme weather events. He also co-led the Met Office funded FHIM-India project to develop a risk-based flood warning system for India within the WCSSP-India programme.
An important area of Xilin and his team’s work is translating their research into open-source software for the wider community, including the high-performance multi-hazard modelling tool SynxFlow.