Dr. Frank Tsai is a professor of water resources in the Department of Civil & Environmental 
Engineering, Louisiana State University. He has been with LSU since 2003. He is a registered Professional Engineer (PE) and registered Professional Geoscientist (PG) in Louisiana. He is an adjunct professor of the LSU Center for Computation & Technology and a fellow of LSU Coastal Studies Institute. He has been the Director of Louisiana Water Resources Research Institute since 2015. He received his B.S. degree and M.S. degree from Taiwan in 1993 and 1995, respectively. He received his Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering/Water Resources from University of California, Los Angeles in 2002 and stayed at UCLA one more year as a postdoc fellow (2002-2003). He was associate editor for ASCE Journal of Hydrologic Engineering and Journal of Water Resources Planning Management and was on the Editorial Board for the journal Advances in Water Resources. He is current associate editor for journal Groundwater (NGWA). Dr. Tsai has broad research interests in hydrology, groundwater, hydrogeology, and water resources management.