Contact Information
Computer Applications Building Room 252
Champaign, IL 61820
Biography
Lelys did her PhD at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia at the Division of Environmental Sciences. She was a professor at the graduate programs of Statistics at Simón Bolivar University, Caracas, Venezuela for more than 25 years. She was a member of the Science Steering Committee of the Biospherical Aspects of the Hydrological cycle project from the International Geosphere-Biosphere program (IGBP) and Lead author of the Millenium Ecosystem Assessment report. She has been a visiting professor at University of California in Santa Cruz, Northern Illinois University and has now an appointment as a Visiting Associate Professor at the Department of Statistics at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Research Interests
Environmental Statistics
Research Description
Spatial and temporal analysis of environmental data, including the development of risk assessment methods to evaluate the impacts of natural hazards under potential climate change.
Education
PhD in Environmental Sciences. Griffith University, Australia.
MSc in Water Resources Engineering and Planning, Universidad Simón Bolívar, Caracas-Venezuela
Bachelor in Mathematics, Universidad Simón Bolívar, Caracas- Venezuela
Additional Campus Affiliations
Clinical Associate Professor, Statistics
Clinical Associate Professor, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
External Links
Recent Publications
Bravo, L., Lenczewski, M., Mallow, S. V., & Solanki, S. (2024). Assessing Water Quality Spatial Heterogeneity from Multiple Pollution Sources in the Boung Cheung Ek Wetland, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Water, 16(1), Article 4. https://doi.org/10.3390/w16010004
Xu, M., Bravo de Guenni, L., & Córdova, J. R. (2024). Climate change impacts on rainfall intensity–duration–frequency curves in local scale catchments. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 196(4), Article 372. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-024-12532-2
Vivas, E., de Guenni, L. B., Allende-Cid, H., & Salas, R. (2022). Deep Lagged-Wavelet for monthly rainfall forecasting in a tropical region. Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, 37(3), 831-848. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00477-022-02323-x
Rubio-Palis, Y., Bravo, L., Guzmán, H., Caura, S., Song, C., Wang, S., & Ybarra, L. M. P. (2021). Respuesta a atrayentes químicos y actividad horaria de Anopheles Meigen spp. (Diptera: Culicidae) en un área malárica del estado Bolívar, Venezuela. Boletin de Malariologia y Salud Ambiental, 61(2), 267-274. https://doi.org/10.52808/BMSA.7E5.612.016
García, I., Huo, S., Prado, R., & Bravo, L. (2020). Dynamic Bayesian temporal modeling and forecasting of short-term wind measurements. Renewable Energy, 161, 55-64. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2020.05.182