Dr. Marta Zaniolo

Assistant Professor

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Biography

Marta Zaniolo joined Duke University as an Assistant Professor in January 2024 in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Her research addresses critical water sustainability challenges, ensuring reliable and affordable access to water resources in the face of scarcity, competing demands, and a changing climate. Zaniolo integrates hydrology and water resources modeling with machine learning and data mining techniques, enabling informed decision-making related to water use across various scales. She holds a Bachelor's and a Master's degree in Environmental Engineering and a Ph.D. in Information Technology from Politecnico di Milano. Before joining Duke, she was a postdoctoral researcher in the Civil and Environmental Engineering department at Stanford University.

Research Interests

Water Resources Planning Management Drought Modeling Control Flexible Climate Change Adaptation Conceptual Data-Driven Systems Modeling Reinforcement Learning Water Systems Multi-Objective Control Feature Extraction

Courses

CEE 691: Independent Study: Advanced Topics Civil Environmental Engineering CEE 690: Advanced Topics Civil Environmental Engineering CEE 493: Research Independent Study in Civil Environmental Engineering CEE 351: Engineering Economics, Risk, Decision-Making

Requirements for Duke University

Master Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:3.2
TOEFL
Listening
Required:22
Reading
Required:22
Writing
Required:24
Speaking
Required:26
Total
Required:90
IELTS
Overall
Required:7
Prerequisites
Multivariable Calculus Introduction to Physics (mechanics) Introduction to Chemistry
Application Checklist
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Specialization Notes

Department of Biomedical Engineering (MS program)