Jonathan D. Herman: CV - Decision Analytics for Complex Systems

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Jonathan D. Herman: CV - Decision Analytics for Complex Systems
Jonathan D. Herman
School of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Cornell University
207 Hollister Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853
Phone: (570) 269-2940
Fax: (607) 255-9004
Office: 207 Hollister Hall
Email: [email protected]
Education
Ph.D. Civil & Environmental Engineering, Cornell University, 2015 (expected).
M.S. Civil & Environmental Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, 2012.
B.E. Environmental Engineering, Dartmouth College, 2010.
A.B. Engineering Sciences, Summa Cum Laude, Dartmouth College, 2010.
Research Interests
Model diagnostics, sensitivity and uncertainty analysis for environmental models
Robust decision-making in multi-stakeholder water resources systems
Multi-objective evolutionary optimization of complex engineered systems
Publications
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
Reed, P.M., N.W. Chaney, J.D. Herman, M.P. Ferringer, and E.F. Wood. Internationally coordinated
multi-mission planning is now critical to sustain the space-based rainfall observations needed for managing
floods globally. Environmental Research Letters, 10, (024010).
Herman, J.D., P.M. Reed, H.B. Zeff, and G.W. Characklis. 2014. How should robustness be defined for
water systems planning under change? Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 04015012.
Herman, J.D., H.B. Zeff, P.M. Reed, and G.W. Characklis. 2014. Beyond optimality: Multi-stakeholder
robustness tradeoffs for regional water portfolio planning under deep uncertainty. Water Resources
Research, 50, 7692-7713.
Zeff, H.B., J.R. Kasprzyk, J.D. Herman, P.M. Reed, and G.W. Characklis. 2014. Navigating financial
and supply reliability tradeoffs in regional drought management portfolios. Water Resources Research,
50, 4906-4923.
Giuliani, M., J.D. Herman, A. Castelletti, and P.M. Reed. 2014. Many–objective policy identification
and refinement to avoid policy myopia in water reservoir management. Water Resources Research, 50,
3355-3377.
Herman, J.D., J.B. Kollat, P.M. Reed, and T. Wagener. 2013. From maps to movies: high resolution
time-varying sensitivity analysis for spatially distributed watershed models. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci.,
17, 5109–5125.
Herman, J.D., J.B. Kollat, P.M. Reed, and T. Wagener. 2013. Technical note: Method of Morris
effectively reduces the computational demands of global sensitivity analysis for distributed watershed
models. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 17, 2893–2903.
Herman, J.D., P.M. Reed, and T. Wagener. 2013. Time-varying sensitivity analysis clarifies the effects
of watershed model formulation on model behavior. Water Resources Research, 49, 1400–1414.
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Reed, P.M., D. Hadka, J.D. Herman, J.R. Kasprzyk, and J.B. Kollat. 2013. Evolutionary Multiobjective
Optimization in Water Resources: The Past, Present, and Future. Advances in Water Resources, 51,
438–456. [Invited Submission for 35th Anniversary Issue].
Lee, D.S., J.D. Herman, D. Elsworth, H.T. Kim, and H.S. Lee. 2011. A critical evaluation of unconventional gas recovery from the Marcellus Shale, Northeastern United States. Korean Society of Civil
Engineering Journal, 15 (4), 679–687.
Papers in Review
Hadka, D.M., J.D. Herman, P.M. Reed, and K. Keller. OpenMORDM: An open source framework for
Many-Objective Robust Decision Making. Environmental Modelling & Software, in review.
Chaney, N.W., J.D. Herman, P.M. Reed, and E.F. Wood. Flood and drought hydrologic monitoring:
The role of model parameter uncertainty. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, in review.
Conference and Seminar Presentations
*Herman, J.D., P.M. Reed, H.B. Zeff, and G.W. Characklis. How should robustness be defined for water
systems planning under change? American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, December 2014.
*Herman, J.D., H.B. Zeff, P.M. Reed, and G.W. Characklis. Balancing robustness to future uncertainty
between cooperating regional water utilities. International Congress on Environmental Modelling and
Software, June 2014.
*Herman, J.D., H.B. Zeff, P.M. Reed, and G.W. Characklis. Preparing for scarcity in the eastern U.S.:
Designing coordinated regional water portfolios to improve robustness to future uncertainty. ASCE World
Environmental & Water Resources Congress, June 2014.
*Herman, J.D., J.B. Kollat, P.M. Reed, and T. Wagener. From maps to movies: High resolution timevarying sensitivity analysis for spatially distributed watershed models. ASCE World Environmental &
Water Resources Congress, June 2014.
Giuliani, M., *J.D. Herman, A. Castelletti, and P.M. Reed. Many-objective control policy identification
and refinement to overcome framing challenges in reservoir management. American Geophysical Union
Fall Meeting, December 2013.
*Herman, J.D., J.B. Kollat, P.M. Reed, and T. Wagener. High resolution time-varying sensitivity analysis
for spatially distributed watershed models. Poster presentation at the American Geophysical Union Fall
Meeting, December 2013.
*Herman, J.D., H.B. Zeff, P.M. Reed, and G.W. Characklis. Beyond optimality: Multi-stakeholder
robustness tradeoffs for regional water portfolio planning under deep uncertainty. Poster presentation at
the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, December 2013. (OSPA Winner)
*P.M. Reed, J.D. Herman, and T. Wagener. Time-varying sensitivity analysis clarifies the impact of
model formulation on model behavior. ASCE World Environmental & Water Resources Congress, May
2013.
*Herman, J.D., P.M. Reed, and T. Wagener. Time-varying sensitivity analysis clarifies the effects of
watershed model formulation on model behavior. Poster presentation at the American Geophysical
Union Fall Meeting, December 2012.
*Herman, J.D., P.M. Reed, and T. Wagener. Diagnosing dominant processes in conceptual rainfall-runoff
models using dynamic sensitivity analysis. Poster presentation at the American Geophysical Union Fall
Meeting, December 2011.
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Teaching
Cornell University
Water Resources Systems Engineering (CEE 6200): Teaching Assistant for P. Reed, Spring 2014.
Pennsylvania State University
Fluid Mechanics (CE 360): Instructor, Summer 2012 (Student rating 6.6/7; PSU average 5.2/7)
Water Resources Engineering (CE 461): Teaching Assistant for C. Shen, Spring 2013.
Water Resources Engineering (CE 461): Teaching Assistant for P. Reed, Fall 2010, Fall 2012.
Water Resources Engineering (CE 461): Teaching Assistant for J. Kasprzyk, Spring 2011.
Dartmouth College
Distributed Systems & Fields (ENGS 23): Teaching Assistant for E. Hansen, Spring 2009.
Professional Activities
Reviewer for (in decreasing order of frequency): Water Resources Research, Environmental Modelling
& Software, Journal of Water Resources Planning & Management, Hydrology & Earth System Sciences,
Hydrological Processes, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, Hydrological Sciences Journal, Journal of Hydroinformatics.
Member, American Geophysical Union, 2010–Present
Member, American Society of Civil Engineers, 2013–Present
Member, International Environmental Modelling & Software Society, 2014–Present
Volunteer organizer, Environmental and Water Resources Systems Seminar Series, Cornell University
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Spring 2014
Session moderator, ASCE World Environmental & Water Resources Congress (2014), American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting (2014)
Software
Sensitivity Analysis Library (SALib; http://jdherman.github.io/SALib/), an open-source Python library
for commonly-used sensitivity analysis methods.
Pareto.py (https://github.com/matthewjwoodruff/pareto.py), a non-dominated sorting script for multiobjective optimization problems (Contributor).
Colormap (http://colormap.org), a web interface to generate custom colormaps for figures.
African Flood and Drought Monitor (Contributor to Princeton University project; http://stream.princeton.edu),
a web interface to display/download observed and modeled hydrologic data for the African continent.
Honors, Awards, & Fellowships
Outstanding Reviewer, Environmental Modelling & Software, 2014
Outstanding Reviewer, Journal of Water Resources Planning & Management, 2014
Best Student Presentation Award, International Congress on Environmental Modelling & Software, 2014
Bernard Meyers Graduate Fellowship, Cornell University, Summer 2014
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Outstanding Student Paper Award, AGU Fall 2013 (Hydrology Section)
Olin Fellowship, Cornell University, 2013–2014
Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society
Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society
E. Shaw Cole Class of 1930 Memorial Scholarship, Dartmouth College.
Francis L. Town Scientific Prize for Engineering Sciences, Dartmouth College.
Last updated: May 12, 2015