Khanh Nguyen is a Scientist in the Water Program at SEI US. She has more than seven years of experience in developing tools for environmental monitoring and assessment, water resources planning and management under climate change. She has extensive modelling skills having worked on various numerical and analytical models in different areas, including hydrology, water quality, and infection.

Khanh joined SEI US in 2022 to conduct research and projects for modelling water systems, and developing planning tools involving participatory processes promoting holistic and transparent decision-making. She also contributes to capacity building and training.

Khanh completed her Ph.D. in Environmental and Water Resources Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2022. Her dissertation focused on predicting water quality vulnerabilities under climate change with machine learning. She received a full fellowship from the RESCIF-CARE organization for her master’s degree. She obtained a M.Sc. in Environmental Sciences and Engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland in 2017. She received a B.Eng. in Environmental Engineering at the Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, Vietnam in 2013.

Before joining SEI US, Khanh was a researcher working on GIS projects at the DITAGIS Center, Vietnam in 2013. She worked as a Corporate Environmental Coordinator at Holcim Vietnam Ltd. in 2014, where she computed carbon dioxide emissions from factories and managed environmental projects in factories. In 2016, she became an intern, working on geoinformatics projects at GeoplanTeam AG, Switzerland. When she joined the Ph.D. program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2017, she was a teaching assistant for GIS and water resources courses. She also led the project of water quality modelling and climate change assessment on water quality for the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, funded by the Water Research Foundation. She participated in other water resources and climate change projects for the Department of Water Resources in California, the Santa Cruz Water Department, the Government of Malawi and World Bank.