Dapeng Feng

Dapeng  Feng
Assistant Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences

Office: JGB

Dapeng Feng will join the Jackson School as an assistant professor in January 2026 following his postdoc at Stanford University. His research focuses on studying the terrestrial water cycle and its interactions with climate and ecosystems by integrating physical models, AI, and large Earth observations. Dapeng is the major developer of the widely used differentiable hydrologic modeling framework to unify physical models and machine learning. Specifically, his group works on 1) regional to continental and global scale hydrologic modeling; 2) the interactions of water and ecosystems across scales; 3) microwave remote sensing of vegetation water and model-data integration; 4) the impacts of human activities on hydrologic and land surface processes.

Prospective PhD students/postdoc: Our group is looking for highly motivated PhD students and postdoc to start in Fall 2026. If you are interested in the research topics above, please feel free to check this advertisement and contact Dapeng to apply.

Prospective master/undergraduate students: If you are a master or undergraduate student interested in our group research topics, please also feel free to email Dapeng to discuss research opportunities.

Areas of Expertise

Terrestrial Water Cycle; Large-scale Hydrologic Modeling; Ecosystem-Water interactions; Hybrid AI-Physics modeling; Remote Sensing of Hydrology; Climate Change Impacts;


Top Downloaded Article (Feng et al., 2022) - Water Resources Research (2024)

HAI Postdoctoral Fellowship - Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (2023 - 2024)

Editor's Choice Award - Water Resources Research (2023)

Top Cited Article 2020-2021 (Feng et al., 2020) - Water Resources Research (2022)

James E. Marley Graduate Fellowship in Engineering - Penn State University (2020)

University Graduate Fellowship - Penn State University (2018)