About
David J. Yu is an Associate Professor at Purdue University with primary appointments in the Lyles School of Civil Engineering (75%) and Department of Political Science (25%). He contributes to interdisciplinary research through Purdue’s Building Sustainable Communities cluster, focusing on sustainability and community resilience.
His research examines resilience of coupled systems to change and uncertainty, combining natural, physical, and institutional factors across scales from local to global. Methodological approaches include mathematical modeling, case study analysis, and behavioral experiments to understand human-infrastructure-water interactions.
Recent publications demonstrate expertise in
- socio-hydrology of reservoir operations
- groundwater governance frameworks
- agent-based modeling of water systems
- cognitive biases in water management
He actively seeks graduate students for projects in Civil Engineering, Ecological Sciences, Environmental Engineering, and Political Science programs at Purdue. Current research includes logical interdependencies in water infrastructure and AI-enhanced resilience frameworks for reservoir management.
