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Prestigious IWA Fellowship Awarded to Professor Guangtao Fu

Professor Guangtao Fu from the Centre for Water Systems at the University of Exeter has received a prestigious fellowship from the International Water Association (IWA) at a ceremony at the IWA World Water Congress & Exhibition 2018 in Tokyo.

Fellows are elected by the IWA Board of Directors and represent a small select group of internationally leading water professionals who have made and are continuing to make a distinguished contribution to the fields of water science, technology and management. Fellows are active ambassadors for the IWA demonstrating the very best of its membership.

Professor Fu is an Associate Professor of Water Infrastructure Systems with a research focus on developing and applying new computer models, data analytics and artificial intelligence tools to tackle urban water infrastructure challenges. He has been a principal/co-investigator on more than 20 externally funded research projects, resulting in over 120 academic publications to date. He is a Royal Society Industry Fellow and a Turing Fellow. He is currently serving as an associate editor for the ASCE Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management and British Journal of Environment and Climate Change, and an editorial board member for Proceedings of the Royal Society A.

Date: 5 October 2018