About

A research engineer working across people, agents, and physical systems

I am a Ph.D. candidate in Civil & Environmental Engineering at Lehigh University, advised within the Complex Adaptive Water Systems Lab. My work combines computational social science, agent-based modeling, LLM evaluation, and research software engineering.

Wenyu Chiou beside his coupled flood-adaptation modeling poster at AGU 2025.
Ph.D. Researcher · Lehigh University

I began with empirical human behavior and human–water systems: survey design, psychometrics, and coupled flood-risk simulation. That foundation now informs how I evaluate generated behavior and design constraint-checked agent systems.

I care about evaluation that reveals disagreement, instability, and limits. The goal is not to claim that an agent is a person; it is to make the relationship between evidence, model behavior, and downstream consequences inspectable.

Education

Education

  1. Ph.D., Civil & Environmental Engineering

    Lehigh University

    2024–Dec 2027 (expected)
  2. M.S., Hydrological and Oceanic Sciences

    National Central University

    2021–2023
  3. B.S., Earth Sciences

    National Central University

    2017–2021

Timeline

Trajectory

  1. 2020–2023

    Field, isotope, groundwater, and climate-data research in Taiwan.

  2. 2024–2025

    Survey-grounded behavioral modeling and coupled household flood simulation.

  3. 2025–present

    Human-grounded LLM evaluation, governed agents, and research workflow systems.

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Contact

Build evaluations that connect model behavior to real evidence

I am seeking a full-time Summer 2027 internship from approximately late May through mid-August. I am especially interested in LLM evaluation, agent systems, behavioral simulation, and AI for science.