Dr Wei Zeng is an Innovative researcher with extensive experience in multidisciplinary disciplines including hydraulic transient analysis, hydroacoustics, signal processing for fault detection, machine learning and data analytics to process IoT data, optical fibre sensing, control theory, CFD and hydrodynamics. His research has been applied to water distribution systems, smart water/wastewater networks, submarine pipes, and hydropower and pump stations.

He has been recently awarded an ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award which enables him to explore the possibilities of using advanced optical fibre sensing techniques for leak detection in water networks. His research directions include:

Smart water networks

Sustainable water asset maintenance (Transient-based pipe condition assessment)

Urban water network design, control and management

Pumped hydropower and mini-hydro