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Ernest To


Résumé

 
Contact: eto@mail.utexas.edu
Degrees: PhD, Civil Engineering, University of Texas at Austin (in progress)
  MS, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University (2001)
  BS, Civil Engineering, University of Texas at Austin (1996)

Biography

Ernest To is a native of Hong Kong and a citizen of Singapore.  He obtained his bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and master's degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Cornell University.  His work experiences include working as a project engineer at Quantitative Environmental Analysis, LLC (2001-2005) and serving as a lieutenant in the Singapore Armed Forces (1996-1999). Ernest is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the Center for Research in Water Resources working under the direction of Dr. David Maidment.

Research

Ernest has been involved in the CUAHSI project (Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrological Science, Inc) which goal is to improve water resources informatics so that researchers can share, gather and process data more quickly and easily.  His research interest is to understand available mathematical frameworks, such as geostatistics, that can integrate the wealth of knowledge resulting from these advancements in informatics.  His aim is to use these frameworks to perform better estimation of environmental variables in space and time.