Dr. Zhu Yulong is an Associate Professor at the University of Emergency Management. He received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from Southwest Jiaotong University in 2014 and 2017, respectively, and obtained his Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering with a cross-disciplinary focus on hydro-geotechnical interactions from Hokkaido University, Japan, in 2020. He currently serves as a Youth Committee Member of the Seismic Disaster Prevention Committee under the Chinese Society of Hydropower Engineering, and is also a member of both the Chinese Society of Hydropower Engineering and the China Water Resources Strategy Research Association. His representative achievement is the development of the Distributed Runoff Model (DRM)—an integrated hydrological-hydrodynamic theory model formulated in ordinary differential equations—which provides a novel theoretical framework for analyzing flash flood disasters and urban pluvial flooding.
In recent years, Dr. Zhu has served as Principal Investigator for several key research projects, including the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Young Scientists Fund (Category C), the Langfang Science and Technology Support Program, and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities. He has also participated as Technical Lead in a number of national and international-level projects, such as the National Key Research and Development Program of China, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fundamental Research Project, the NSFC Joint Fund Key Project, and the NSFC General Program. He has published over 30 high-quality papers in internationally renowned TOP journals including Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, Engineering Geology, Landslides, Journal of Hydrology, and Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, etc. In addition, Dr. Zhu developed the Drodec software during his tenure at North China Electric Power University, and has continued to refine it since joining the University of Emergency Management. The software has now gained wide recognition within the water disaster industry.