Team & Join — FLUX Lab | Dr. Chieh-Ying (Cindy) Chen

Principal Investigator

Chieh-Ying (Cindy) Chen, Ph.D.

Incoming Assistant Professor
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Texas A&M University
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Delaware (2024–present)

Cindy's career goal is to lead a research group that bridges fundamental environmental fluid mechanics with applied water resources management in surface water and groundwater systems. Her work spans multi-scale hydrodynamic, sediment transport, and water-quality modeling, sediment oxygen demand and dissolved-oxygen dynamics, hyporheic mass transfer, groundwater thermal-energy transport, and coastal surface-water–groundwater interaction.

Education

Ph.D., Civil Engineering — University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2024
M.S., Civil Engineering — University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2018
B.S., Civil Engineering — National Taiwan University, 2016

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Mentoring Philosophy

Inclusive, interdisciplinary, problem-focused

Cindy's mentoring emphasizes professional skill development, interdisciplinary perspectives, and problem-solving. She encourages student-driven learning — where students define problems, conduct analyses, and communicate results — and is committed to building a diverse, supportive group where students at all stages can thrive.

Who thrives here

Curiosity about water, sediment, and the subsurface
Interest in computational modeling
Backgrounds in civil/environmental engineering, earth & geosciences, applied math, physics, or scientific computing
Willingness to work across disciplines

Join the Lab

Open for graduate student applications

The FLUX Lab is recruiting graduate students (Ph.D. and M.S.) at Texas A&M University who are excited about environmental fluid mechanics, hydrology, and computational modeling. Backgrounds in civil/environmental engineering, earth & geosciences, applied math, physics, or scientific computing are all welcome.

Expected start: Fall 2027. Prospective students are encouraged to reach out now.

Interested? Let's chat.

Email Cindy at ccychen@tamu.edu with a short note about your research interests (and your CV, if you have one). She'd be glad to chat about working together — please include “FLUX Lab” in the subject line.

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