Professor

Shien-Tsung Chen

Director, Research Center for Water Science and Technology

Email

    chen@gs.ncku.edu.tw

Education

    B.Sc.,  M.Sc.,  Ph.D. in Hydraulic Engineering, NCKU

License

    P.E. in Hydraulic Engineering

    Patent Attorney

Research Interests

    Climate Change

    Hydroinformatics 

    Hydrometeorology

    Real-time Forecasting

    Surface–Atmosphere Water and Energy Exchange

Courses

    Advanced Hydrology

    Intelligent Systems

    Climate Change

    Water Resources Engineering

    Water Resources Systems and Management

Link

    NCKU Research

    Google Scholar

    CHEN Lab (Climate and Hydrologic Engineering @ NCKU)  

Second Lieutenant, Air Force, Taiwan
Associate Engineer, Coastal Ocean Monitoring Center, NCKU
Postdoctoral Fellow, Hydraulic and Ocean Engineering, NCKU
Assistant Researcher, Hydraulic and Ocean Engineering, NCKU
Assistant Professor, Water Resources Engineering and Conservation, FCU
Associate Professor, Water Resources Engineering and Conservation, FCU
Professor, Water Resources Engineering and Conservation, FCU
Associate Professor, Hydraulic and Ocean Engineering, NCKU
Professor, Hydraulic and Ocean Engineering, NCKU
Phoenix Tree Literary Award, National Cheng Kung University (1993)
Scholarship, Sinotech Foundation for Research and Development of Engineering Sciences and Technologies (2002)
Scholarship, Sinotech Foundation for Research and Development of Engineering Sciences and Technologies (2004)
Paper Award, Chinese Water Resources Management Society (2005)
Scholarship, Chi-Seng Water Management Research and Development Foundation (2005)
Honorary Membership, The Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society of the Republic of China (2006)
Paper Award, Taiwan Agricultural Engineers Society (2008)
Paper Award, Chinese Water Resources Management Society (2008)
Paper Award, Taiwan Agricultural Engineers Society (2011)
Paper Award, Taiwan Agricultural Engineers Society (2012)
Paper Award, Taiwan Agricultural Engineers Society (2013)
Distinguished Young Agricultural Engineer Award, Taiwan Agricultural Engineers Society (2013)
Distinguished Young Engineer Award, Chinese Water Resources Management Society (2013)
Excellent Tutor Award, Feng Chia University (2014)
Paper Award, Taiwan Agricultural Engineers Society (2017)
Excellent Teaching Award, Feng Chia University (2018)
Excellent Mentor, Department of Hydraulic and Ocean Engineering, NCKU (2021)
Excellent Mentor, College of Engineering, NCKU (2021)
Teaching Award, Department of Hydraulic and Ocean Engineering, NCKU (2023)
  1. Dinh Ty Nguyen, Shien-Tsung Chen* (2022) Generating continuous rainfall series of high temporal resolution using stochastic rainfall generator with copula and modified Huff rainfall curves. Water, 14(13), 2123.
  2. Shien-Tsung Chen* (2021) Probabilistic typhoon rainfall forecasting using a modified fuzzy inference model. Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, 32(4), 583–596.
  3. Dinh Ty Nguyen, Shien-Tsung Chen* (2020) Real-time probabilistic flood forecasting using multiple machine learning methods. Water, 12(3), 787.
  4. Dong-Jiing Doong, Shien-Tsung Chen*, Ying-Chih Chen, Cheng-Han Tsai (2020) Operational probabilistic forecasting of coastal freak waves by using an artificial neural network. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 8(3), 165.
  5. Shien-Tsung Chen*, Yu-Wei Wang (2020) Improving coastal ocean wave height forecasting during typhoons by using local meteorological and neighboring wave data in support vector regression models. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 8(3), 149.
  6. Chang-Shian Chen, You-Da Jhong, Wan-Zhen Wu, Shien-Tsung Chen* (2019) Fuzzy time series for real-time flood forecasting. Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, 33(3), 645–656.
  7. Shien-Tsung Chen*(2019) Probabilistic forecasting of coastal wave height during typhoon warning period using machine learning methods. Journal of Hydroinformatics, 21(2), 343–358.
  8. Haw Yen, Ruoyu Wang, Qingyu Feng, Chih-Chieh Young, Shien-Tsung Chen, Wen-Hsiao Tseng, Michael White, Jeffrey Arnold (2018) Input uncertainty on watershed modeling: evaluation of precipitation and air temperature data by latent variables using SWAT. Ecological Engineering, 122, 16–26.
  9. You-Da Jhong, Chang-Shian Chen, Hsin-Ping Lin, Shien-Tsung Chen* (2018) Physical hybrid neural network model to forecast typhoon floods. Water, 10(5), 632.
  10. Haw Yen, Shenglan Lu, Qingyu Feng, Ruoyu Wang, Jungang Gao, Dawn Michelle Brady, Amirreza Sharifi, Jungkyu Ahn, Shien-Tsung Chen, Jaehak Jeong, Michael James White, Jeffrey George Arnold (2017) Assessment of optional sediment transport functions via the complex watershed simulation model SWAT. Water, 9(2), 76.
  11. Haw Yen, Yu-Wen Su, June Wolfe III, Shien-Tsung Chen, Yu-Chao Hsu, Wen-Hsiao Tseng, Dawn Brady, Jaehak Jeong, Jeffrey Arnold. (2015) Assessment of input uncertainty by seasonally categorized latent variables using SWAT. Journal of Hydrology, 531(3), 685–695.
  12. Shien-Tsung Chen* (2015) Grey rainfall-stage model for forecasting flash flood stages during typhoons. Disaster Advances, 8(6), 11–19.
  13. Shien-Tsung Chen* (2015) Mining informative hydrologic data by using support vector machines and elucidating mined data according to information entropy. Entropy, 17(3), 1023–1041.
  14. Pao-Shan Yu, Tao-Chang Yang, Chen-Min Kuo, Hung-Wei Tseng, Shien-Tsung Chen (2015) Climate change impacts on streamflow drought: a case study in Tseng-Wen Reservoir catchment in southern Taiwan. Climate, 3(1), 42–62.
  15. Pao-Shan Yu, Tao-Chang Yang, Chen-Min Kuo, Shien-Tsung Chen (2014) Development of an integrated computational tool to assess climate change impacts on water supply-demand and flood inundation. Journal of Hydroinformatics, 16(3), 710–730.
  16. Shien-Tsung Chen* (2013) Multiclass support vector classification to estimate typhoon rainfall distribution. Disaster Advances, 6(10), 110–121.
  17. Shien-Tsung Chen, Tao-Chang Yang, Chen-Min Kuo, Chih-Hao Kuo, Pao-Shan Yu (2013) Probabilistic drought forecasting in Southern Taiwan using El Niño-Southern Oscillation index. Terrestrial Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, 24(5), 911–924.
  18. Chang-Shian Chen, You-Da Jhong, Ting-Ying Wu, Shien-Tsung Chen* (2013) Typhoon event-based evolutionary fuzzy inference model for flood stage forecasting. Journal of Hydrology, 490, 134–143.
  19. Shien-Tsung Chen, Pao-Shan Yu, Bin-Wu Liu (2011) Comparison of neural network architectures and inputs for radar rainfall adjustment for typhoon events. Journal of Hydrology, 405(1–2), 150–160.
  20. Tao-Chang Yang, Pao-Shan Yu, Chi-Ma Wei, Shien-Tsung Chen (2011) Projection of climate change for daily precipitation: A case study in Shih-Men Reservoir catchment in Taiwan. Hydrological Processes, 25(8), 1342–1354.
  21. Shien-Tsung Chen, Pao-Shan Yu, Yi-Hsuan Tang (2010) Statistical downscaling of daily precipitation using support vector machines and multivariate analysis. Journal of Hydrology, 385(1–4), 13–22.
  22. Shien-Tsung Chen, Chun-Chao Kuo, Pao-Shan Yu (2009) Historical trends and variability of meteorological droughts in Taiwan. Hydrological Sciences Journal, 54(3), 430–441.
  23. Yu-Chi Wang, Shien-Tsung Chen, Tao-Chang Yang, Pao-Shan Yu (2008) Storm-event rainfall-runoff modeling approach for ungauged sites in Taiwan. Hydrological Processes, 22(21), 4322–4330.
  24. Shien-Tsung Chen, Pao-Shan Yu (2007) Pruning of support vector networks on flood forecasting. Journal of Hydrology, 347(1–2), 67–78.
  25. Shien-Tsung Chen, Pao-Shan Yu (2007) Real-time probabilistic forecasting of flood stages. Journal of Hydrology, 340(1–2), 63–77.
  26. Pao-Shan Yu, Shien-Tsung Chen, I-Fan Chang (2006) Support vector regression for real-time flood stage forecasting. Journal of Hydrology, 328(3–4), 704–716.
  27. Pao-Shan Yu,Shien-Tsung Chen (2005) Updating real-time flood forecasting using a fuzzy rule-based model. Hydrological Sciences Journal, 50(2), 265–278.
  28. Pao-Shan Yu, Shien-Tsung Chen, Chia-Jung Chen, Tao-Chang Yang (2005) The potential of fuzzy multi-objective model for rainfall forecasting from typhoons. Natural Hazards, 34(2), 131–150.
  29. Pao-Shan Yu, Shien-Tsung Chen, Che-Chuan Wu, Shu-Chen Lin (2004) Comparison of grey and phase-space rainfall forecasting models using fuzzy decision method. Hydrological Sciences Journal, 49(4), 655–672.
  30. Pao-Shan Yu, Chia-Jung Chen, Shiann-Jong Chen, Shu-Chen Lin (2001) Application of Grey model toward runoff forecasting. Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 37(1), 151–166.
  31. Pao-Shan Yu, Chia-Jung Chen, Shiann-Jong Chen (2000) Application of gray and fuzzy methods for rainfall forecasting. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, 5(4), 339–345.
  32. 雷祖強、陳憲宗、陳昶憲、鍾侑達、王欣萍、靳鈞評,2017,「水災災害風險評估模式之研究-以臺中市易淹水範圍為例」,臺灣水利,第5卷,第2期,第1~16頁。
  33. 陳憲宗、賴彥瑾、王毓麒,2016,「臺中都市熱島效應及增溫對都會區對流降雨之影響」,臺灣水利,第64卷,第3期,第13~22頁。
  34. 陳憲宗、李奕欣,2016,「台灣長期皿蒸發量趨勢分析及蒸發互補關係初探」,農業工程學報,第62卷,第1期,第12~28頁。
  35. 陳憲宗、莊永忠、謝敏政,2015,「泥砂率定曲線之偏差修正及集水區沖蝕率推估」,臺灣水利,第63卷,第4期,第23~33頁。
  36. 鍾泰榮、陳憲宗、游保杉,2012,「基地保水設計之減洪與經費效益評估」,臺灣水利,第60卷,第1期,第56~69頁。
  37. 郭志豪、楊道昌、郭振民、陳憲宗、游保杉,2012,「應用ENSO指標建立乾旱機率預報模式–以台灣南部地區為例」,農業工程學報,第58卷,第1期,第13~32頁。
  38. 邱德維、楊道昌、陳憲宗、游保杉,2011,「多測站日降雨量繁衍模式之研究」,臺灣水利,第59卷,第4期,第1~16頁。
  39. 陳憲宗、曾宏偉、林錦源、楊道昌、游保杉,2011,「氣候變遷情境下曾文水庫集水區水文乾旱特性推估」,農業工程學報,第57卷,第3期,第44~60頁。
  40. 陳憲宗、劉鑌鋈、游保杉,2010,「應用支撐向量機與輻狀基底神經網路修正QPESUMS雨量」,農業工程學報,第56卷,第3期,第43~56頁。
  41. 蔡慧萍、盧書炫、陳憲宗、游保杉,2008,「短延時降雨強度公式之區域化研析」,臺灣水利,第56卷,第4期,第15~27頁。
  42. 陳憲宗、游保杉,2007,「洪水位之即時機率預報-結合支撐向量機與模糊推理」,農業工程學報,第53卷,第4期,第1~20頁。
  43. 陳憲宗、張逸凡、謝章廷、游保杉,2006,「支撐向量機制:洪水水位預報模式」,臺灣水利,第54卷,第2期,第50~61頁。

National Science and Technology Council

2011: Connection between droughts in Taiwan and large-scale atmospheric circulation
2012: Teleconnection between ENSO and drought in Taiwan, and its application on drought early warning
2013: Long-term evaporation trend discovery in Taiwan and its cause-and-effect analysis
2015: Generation of convective rainfall causing urban flood disaster under climate change and urbanization (I)
2016: Generation of convective rainfall causing urban flood disaster under climate change and urbanization (II)
2017: Scenario simulation of short-duration severe rainfall under climate change and urbanization (I)
2018: Scenario simulation of short-duration severe rainfall under climate change and urbanization (II)
2020: Extreme rainfall analysis in urban area under climate change scenarios
2021: Using machine learning methods to develop a climate and groundwater table forecasting system in land subsidence critical zone (I)
2022: Using machine learning methods to develop a climate and groundwater table forecasting system in land subsidence critical zone (II)
2023: Using machine learning methods to develop a climate and groundwater table forecasting system in land subsidence critical zone (III)
2024: Forecasting of long-term drought prospects and projection of drought scenarios using machine learning methods and climate teleconnections (I)
Master’s Thesis
Min-Cheng Hsieh (2014) Bias correction of sediment rating curve and estimation of regional sediment yield. FCU.
Yi-Hsin Li (2014) Long-term pan evaporation trend in Taiwan. FCU.
Yan-Jin Lai (2015) Effects of urban heat island on convective rainfall in Taichung City. FCU.
Yu-Chieh Liu (2016) Developing wetness indices of evaporation complementary relationship in Taiwan. FCU.
Yuan-Teng Yan (2016) Hourly rainfall generator for short-duration rainfall event. FCU.
Jia-Shen Xie (2017) Development and application of hourly rainfall generator for short-duration rainfall event. FCU.
Yi-Hsuan Fang (2017) Differences in evaporation between 20-cm Pan and Class A Pan. FCU.
Ci-Wei Li (2018) Short-duration rainfall generation in Taichung City under scenarios of climate change and urbanization. FCU.
Chih-Yu Shu (2019) Development and application of time correlated hourly rainfall generator for short-duration rainfall event. FCU.
You-Jhen Wang (2019) Estimating actual evaporation by evaporation complementary relationship in Taiwan. FCU.
Yu-Wei Wang (2019) Influence of different combinations of meteorological factors on typhoon wave forecasting. FCU.
Yun-Tian Zheng (2020) Estimation of actual evaporation by using calibrated formula for evaporation complementary relationship. FCU.
Zhi-En Li (2021) Estimating the temporal and spatial distribution of groundwater level in Choushui River alluvial fan using support vector regression and STAR-BME. NCKU.
Hsin-Hsin Chen (2022) Real-time typhoon rainfall forecasting using deep learning theory. NCKU.
Yan-Zhi Chen (2022) Application of Budyko framework on the change of hydrologic cycle in southern Taiwan catchments. NCKU.
Yung-Hsuan Pan (2022) Estimating the side wall effect of the pan evaporation based on the aerodynamics and the energy balance theory in Taiwan. NCKU.
Hung-Ying Fu (2023) Extreme learning machine for real-time flood stage forecasting in Lan-Yang Bridge. NCKU.
Tzung-Hsin Tsai (2023) Using signal processing and light gradient boosting machine to estimate the spatio-temporal patterns of groundwater level in Chuoshui River alluvial fan. NCKU.

Ph.D. Dissertation
Dinh Ty Nguyen (2021) Stochastic rainfall generator using copula and modified Huff rainfall curves. FCU.