Marta Zaniolo
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests
Water resources planning and management, drought modeling and control, flexible climate change adaptation, conceptual and data-driven systems modeling, reinforcement learning for water systems, multi-objective control, feature extraction.
Bio
Marta Zaniolo joined Duke CEE as an assistant professor in January 2024. Her research addresses timely water sustainability challenges including how to ensure reliable and affordable access to water resources in the face of scarcity, competing demands, and a changing climate. She combines the fields of hydrology and water resources modeling with machine learning and data mining techniques to enable more informed decision-making about water use at scales large and small. Zaniolo holds a BS and MS degree in Environmental Engineering and a PhD in Information Technology earned in the Environmental Intelligence lab at Politecnico di Milano. Prior to joining Duke, she was a postdoctoral researcher in the CEE department at Stanford University.Learn more here: https://zeddlab.weebly.com/
Education
- B.S. Politecnico di Milano (Italy), 2014
- M.S. Politecnico di Milano (Italy), 2017
- Ph.D. Politecnico di Milano (Italy), 2020
Positions
- Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Courses Taught
- CEE 690: Advanced Topics in Civil and Environmental Engineering
- CEE 493: Research Independent Study in Civil and Environmental Engineering