Overview
Marta Zaniolo joined Duke CEE as an assistant professor in January 2024. Her research addresses timely water sustainability challenges including how to ensure reliable and affordable access to water resources in the face of scarcity, competing demands, and a changing climate. She combines the fields of hydrology and water resources modeling with machine learning and data mining techniques to enable more informed decision-making about water use at scales large and small. Zaniolo holds a BS and MS degree in Environmental Engineering and a PhD in Information Technology earned in the Environmental Intelligence lab at Politecnico di Milano. Prior to joining Duke, she was a postdoctoral researcher in the CEE department at Stanford University.Learn more here: https://zeddlab.weebly.com/
Current Appointments & Affiliations
Recent Publications
Optimizing models for the prediction of one step ahead extreme flows to wastewater treatment plants using different synthetic sampling methods.
Journal Article Journal of environmental management · September 2025 High-flow events that significantly impact Water Resource Recovery Facility (WRRF) operations are rare, but accurately predicting these flows could improve treatment operations. Data-driven modeling approaches could be used; however, high flow events that ... Full text Open Access CiteVisual-Analytics Bridge Complexity and Accessibility for Robust Urban Water Planning
Journal Article Water Resources Research · April 1, 2025 Urban water resources planning is complicated by unprecedented uncertainty in supply and demand. Real-world planning often simplifies the full range of uncertainty faced by a system into a limited set of deterministic scenarios to enhance accessibility for ... Full text CiteIntersecting Risk: Heat and Substance Use in Rural Communities.
Journal Article Substance use & misuse · January 2025 BackgroundExtreme heat has a direct impact on health and can exacerbate substance use. Rural communities are at high risk given higher rates of hospitalizations for heat related illness and the disproportionate effects of substance use. This comme ... Full text CiteRecent Grants
IUCRC Phase I Duke University: Center for Innovation in Risk-analysis for Climate Adaption and Decision-making (CIRCAD)
ResearchParticipating Faculty Member · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2025 - 2030IUCRC Planning Grant Duke University: Center for Innovation in Risk-analysis for Climate Adaptation and Decision-making (CIRCAD)
ResearchParticipating Faculty Member · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2024 - 2025View All Grants