By Appointment
Professor of the Graduate School
Yoram Rubin is a Chancellor’s Professor Emeritus and Professor of the Graduate School in Civil and Environmental Engineering at UC Berkeley. Rubin’s research focuses on the characterization of geologic media using remote sensing and geophysical techniques for environmental and agricultural applications. He is a recipient of the prestigious Henry Darcy Medal awarded by the European Geophysical Union in 2015, the Hydrologic Science Award from the American Geophysical Union in 2004, and the Goldschmidt Award from the Annual Award of the Israeli Hydrological Society in 1988, among other notable accomplishments.
Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Tel-Aviv University, Israel, 1988
M.S., Civil Engineering, Technion Institute of Technology, Israel, 1984
B.S., Civil Engineering, Technion Institute of Technology, Israel, 1977
Rubin’s research focuses on hydrogeological-geophysical methods for contaminated site characterization, modeling of contaminant transport in heterogeneous porous media, contaminant transport for environmental risk assessment, and performance assessment of nuclear repository sites. His recent research interests include hydrogeology, flow and transport processes in geologic media, modeling and analysis of contaminant fate and migration patterns, geostatistics and stochastic methods, geological site characterization, geophysical methods for subsurface characterization, and soil-plant-atmospheric interaction. Here are a few of the research areas Rubin is currently working on below:
- Henry Darcy Medal, awarded by the European Geophysical Union, 2015
- International Research Fellow of the Helmholtz Association, 2013
- Sackler distinguished Lecturer, May 2012
- Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, 2006
- Hydrologic Science Award of the American Geophysical Union , 2004
- 2001 - 2005: President, International Commission on Ground Water, International Association of Hydrologic Science (IAHS).
- Goldschmidt Award, Annual Award of the Israeli Hydrological Society, 1988
CE173 Groundwater, Seepage
CE202A Vadose Zone Hydrology
CE202B Applied Stochastic Hydrogeology
CE93 Engineering Data Analysis
Current:
Jiancong Chen, PhD Student
Tianjiao Pu, PhD Student
Picture above: Current and former students' reunion at AGU San Francisco 2019. Left to right: Jason Hou, Felipe Barros, Haruko Murakami, Nigel Chen, Xingyuan Chen, Heather Savoy, Tianjiao Pu.
Recent Graduates:
Group Picture Taken at AGU December 2015 (Left to right, standing: Zhangshuan Hou, Pacual Benito; Left to right, sitting: Haruko Wainwright, Felipe de Barros, Yoram Rubin, Gretchen Miller, Xingyuan Chen)
Bradley Harken, 2018
Ching-Fu Chang, 2018
Karina Cucchi, December 2017
Heather Savoy, May 2017
Michelle Newcomer, 2016
Matthew Over, PhD, December 2013.
Haruko Murakami, thesis submitted, reviewed and accepted, May 2010
Xingyuan Chen, thesis submitted, reviewed and accepted, May 2009
Gretchen Miller, thesis submitted, reviewed and accepted, May 2009
Felipe Barros, thesis submitted, reviewed and accepted, May 2009
(Selected recent publications)
Osorio-Murillo, C.A., M. W. Over, H. Savoy, D. P. Ames, Y. Rubin, Software framework for inverse modeling and uncertainty characterization, Environmental Modelling & Software, Volume 66, Pages 98-109, 2015.
Hesse, F., H. Savoy, C.A. Osorio-Murillo, J. Sege, S. Attinger, Y. Rubin, Characterizing the impact of roughness and connectivity features of aquifer conductivity using Bayesian inversion, Journal of Hydrology, Volume 531, Part 1, Pages 73-87, 2015.
Newcomer, M.E., S. S. Hubbard, J. H. Fleckenstein, U. Maier, C. Schmidt, M. Thullner, C. Ulrich, N. Flipo, Y., Simulating bioclogging effects on dynamic riverbed permeability and infiltration, Water Resources. Res., Volume 52, Issue 4, 2883–2900, 2016.
Savoy, H., T. Kalbacher, P. Dietrich, Y. Rubin, Geological heterogeneity: Goal-oriented simplification of structure and characterization needs, Advances in Water Resources, Volume 109, Pages 1-13, 2017.
Jang, E., W. He, H. Savoy, P. Dietrich, O. Kolditz, Y. Rubin, C. Schüth, T. Kalbacher, Identifying the influential aquifer heterogeneity factor on nitrate reduction processes by numerical simulation, Advances in Water Resources, 99, 38-52, 2017.
Savoy, H., F. Heße, and Y.Rubin, anchored Distr: a Package for the Bayesian Inversion of Geostatistical Parameters with Multi-type and Multi-scale Data, The R Journal, 2017.
Wang, C., Harken, B., C.A. Osorio-Murillo, H. Zhu, Y. Rubin, Bayesian approach for probabilistic site characterization assimilating borehole experiments and cone penetration tests, Engineering Geology, 207, 1–13. 2017.
Wang., C.H, C.A. Osorio-Murillo, H. Zhu and Y. Rubin, Bayesian approach calibrating transformation model from spatially-Varied CPT data to regular geotechnical parameter, Computers and Geotechnics, 85, 262-273, 2017.
Sege., J., M. Ghanem, W. Ahmad, H. Bader, Y. Rubin, Distributed data collection and web-based integration for more efficient and informative groundwater pollution risk assessment, Environmental Modelling & Software, Volume 100, February 2018, Pages 278–290, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2017.11.027.
Xiaojun Li, Yandong Li, Ching-Fu Chang, Benjamin Tan, Ziyang Chen, Jon Sege, Changhong Wang, Yoram Rubin, Stochastic, Goal-oriented Rapid Impact Modeling of Uncertainty and Environmental Impacts in Poorly-Sampled Sites Using Ex-Situ Priors, 2018, 10.1016/j.advwatres.2017.11.00.
Yoram Rubin, Ching-Fu Chang, Jiancong Chen, Karina Cucchi, Bradley Harken, Falk Heße, and Heather Savoy, Stochastic hydrogeology's biggest hurdles analyzed and its big blind spot, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 22, 5675-5695, 2018, https://www.hydrol-earth-syst-sci.net/22/5675/2018/
Cagri Gokdemir, Yoram Rubin, Xiaojun Li, Yandong Li and Hao Xu, Vulnerability analysis method of vegetation due to groundwater table drawdown induced by tunnel drainage, Advances in Water Resources 133 (2019),