Publications & Talks

Peer-Reviewed Publications

  • Yang, Y. C. E., & Chiou, W. (2026). Leveraging Large Language Models for Agent-Based Simulation of Human–Water System Interactions. Water Resources Research, 62(6), e2025WR042111.

    Second author of two.

    PublishedDOI 10.1029/2025WR042111

Manuscripts Under Review

  • First-author manuscript — coupled agent-based × catastrophe-model flood adaptation (FLOODABM companion).

    Under reviewTarget: Journal of Hydrology

  • First-author manuscript — flood-adaptation decision pathways across marginalized and non-marginalized groups (structural equation modeling).

    Under reviewTarget: Sustainable Cities and Society

Conference Presentations

  • ISDSA 2026 Annual Meeting — What Makes AI Believable? Comparing AI and Human Responses in Mental Health Risk Assessment — recorded presentation.

    With Hawjeng Chiou, National Taiwan Normal University.

  • ISHC 2025, Tokyo, Japan — Oral presentation 38-03, July 2025.

    Co-authors across Lehigh, FAU, Kyoto, and the University of Tokyo.

    Program listing

  • AGU Fall Meeting 2025 — Poster NH41E-0449 — Modeling Long-Term Household Flood Adaptation under Social Heterogeneity: A Coupled Agent-Based Modeling Framework.

    With co-authors at Lehigh and Kyoto University's Disaster Prevention Research Institute.

  • AGU Fall Meeting 2023 — Abstract — submarine groundwater discharge study combining electrical resistivity tomography, field observation, and numerical simulation.

Research software

  • research-hub-pipeline v1.1.1 on PyPI — maintained open-source tool. PyPI
  • FLOODABM — Zenodo-archived companion code with citation metadata (CITATION.cff) and published seed lists; research prototype. Repo
  • WAGF — a governance framework for LLM agents in human–water simulation, keeping coupled behavioral outcomes stable and physically sensible; research software in preparation for release.