Zhuping Sheng is a professor of civil engineering at Morgan State University (MSU), Maryland. He is a registered professional engineer, certified professional hydrologist, and a fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). He has 40 years of research and practice experience in water resources engineering and geomechanics. The most impactful efforts of his research include the development of a framework to explore interactions of atmospheric water, surface water, and groundwater, the discovery of temporal and spatial exchange patterns of different waters, managed aquifer recharge, and geohazards (land subsidence, earth fissure, and sinkholes, landslides, etc.) and their prevention under different cliSheng’snditions. Sheng’s teaching and research programs at MSU further expand into the enhancement of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics programs and artificial intelligence (machine learning) applications, including innovative technology–smart sensors and their applications in identifying, assessing, and monitoring geohazards.
Sheng has served in many roles in professional societies, such as ASCE, the American Water Resources Association, and the American Institute of Hydrology. Before joining MSU, he worked as a faculty member at Texas A&M University and as center director at Texas A&M AgriLife Research Center. He received his PhD from the University of Nevada, Reno, U.S., his Master of Science degree from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, and his bachelor’s in engineering degree from Tongji University, China.