publications | Robin Thibaut

2025

A ModEx Framework for Watershed Subsurface Investigation with Limited Geophysical Data Using Machine Learning and Hydrologic Modeling

Hang Chen, \textbfRobin Thibaut, Chunwei Chou, and 2 more authors

Geophysical Research Letters, 2025

Under review

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@article{chen2025,
  author = {Chen, Hang and {\textbf{Robin Thibaut}} and Chou, Chunwei and Xiong, Chen and Wu, Yuxin},
  title = {A ModEx Framework for Watershed Subsurface Investigation with Limited Geophysical Data Using Machine Learning and Hydrologic Modeling},
  journal = {Geophysical Research Letters},
  year = {2025},
  note = {Under review},
}

The Role of Snowmelt and Subsurface Heterogeneity in Headwater Hydrology of a Mountainous Catchment in Colorado: A Model-Data Integration Approach

Lijing Wang, Zexuan Xu, Chen Wang, and 11 more authors

Water Resources Research, 2025

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@article{wang2025,
  author = {Wang, Lijing and Xu, Zexuan and Wang, Chen and \textbf{Robin Thibaut} and Ulrich, Craig and Sprenger, Matthias and Uhlemann, Sebastian and Wu, Yuxin and King, Evan and Wainwright, Haruko and Carroll, Rosemary W. H. and Beutler, Curtis and Williams, Kenneth H. and Dafflon, Baptiste},
  title = {The Role of Snowmelt and Subsurface Heterogeneity in Headwater Hydrology of a Mountainous Catchment in Colorado: A Model-Data Integration Approach},
  journal = {Water Resources Research},
  year = {2025},
  doi = {10.1029/2025WR040651},
  url = {https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025WR040651},
}

Efficiency and heat transport processes of low-temperature aquifer thermal energy storage systems: new insights from global sensitivity analyses

Luka Tas, Niels Hartog, Martin Bloemendal, and 5 more authors

Geothermal Energy, Jan 2025

Open access, published 07 January 2025

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@article{tas2025,
  author = {Tas, Luka and Hartog, Niels and Bloemendal, Martin and Simpson, David and Robert, Tanguy and \textbf{Robin Thibaut} and Zhang, Le and Hermans, Thomas},
  title = {Efficiency and heat transport processes of low-temperature aquifer thermal energy storage systems: new insights from global sensitivity analyses},
  journal = {Geothermal Energy},
  volume = {13},
  pages = {Article number: 2},
  year = {2025},
  month = jan,
  note = {Open access, published 07 January 2025},
  doi = {10.1186/s40517-024-00310-0},
}

Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical Modeling of Geothermal Energy Systems in Deep Mines: Uncertainty Quantification and Design Optimization

Le Zhang, Anne-Catherine Dieudonné, Alexandros Daniilidis, and 5 more authors

Applied Energy, Jan 2025

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@article{zhang2024,
  author = {Zhang, Le and Dieudonné, Anne-Catherine and Daniilidis, Alexandros and Dong, Longjun and Cao, Wenzhuo and \textbf{Robin Thibaut} and Tas, Luka and Hermans, Thomas},
  title = {Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical Modeling of Geothermal Energy Systems in Deep Mines: Uncertainty Quantification and Design Optimization},
  journal = {Applied Energy},
  volume = {377},
  pages = {124531},
  year = {2025},
  doi = {10.1016/j.apenergy.2024.124531},
  url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306261924019147},
}

2023

Machine Learning for Bayesian Experimental Design in the Subsurface

Robin Thibaut

Ghent University, Mar 2023

To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a post mortem examination. He can perhaps say what the experiment died of. Ronald A. Fisher (1890-1962)

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@phdthesis{thibaut_phd_2023,
  author = {Thibaut, Robin},
  month = mar,
  school = {Ghent University},
  title = {Machine Learning for Bayesian Experimental Design in the Subsurface},
  year = {2023},
  doi = {10.22541/essoar.168057575.58936022/v1},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.22541/essoar.168057575.58936022/v1},
  note = {To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a post mortem examination. He can perhaps say what the experiment died of. Ronald A. Fisher (1890-1962)},
}

2022

Comparing Well and Geophysical Data for Temperature Monitoring Within a Bayesian Experimental Design Framework

\textbfRobin Thibaut, Nicolas Compaire, Nolwenn Lesparre, and 3 more authors

Water Resources Research, Nov 2022

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@article{Thibaut2022,
  author = {\textbf{Robin Thibaut} and Compaire, Nicolas and Lesparre, Nolwenn and Ramgraber, Maximilian and Laloy, Eric and Hermans, Thomas},
  doi = {10.1029/2022WR033045},
  issn = {0043-1397},
  issue = {11},
  journal = {Water Resources Research},
  month = nov,
  title = {Comparing Well and Geophysical Data for Temperature Monitoring Within a Bayesian Experimental Design Framework},
  volume = {58},
  url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2022WR033045},
  year = {2022},
}

2021

A new framework for experimental design using Bayesian Evidential Learning: The case of wellhead protection area

\textbfRobin Thibaut, Eric Laloy, and Thomas Hermans

Journal of Hydrology, Dec 2021

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@article{thibaut_new_2021,
  author = {\textbf{Robin Thibaut} and Laloy, Eric and Hermans, Thomas},
  doi = {10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.126903},
  issn = {00221694},
  journal = {Journal of Hydrology},
  keywords = {Bayesian Evidential Learning,Experimental design,Groundwater modelling,Machine learning},
  month = dec,
  pages = {126903},
  title = {A new framework for experimental design using Bayesian Evidential Learning: The case of wellhead protection area},
  volume = {603},
  url = {https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0022169421009537},
  year = {2021},
}

Imaging the Structure and the Saltwater Intrusion Extent of the Luy River Coastal Aquifer (Binh Thuan, Vietnam) Using Electrical Resistivity Tomography

Diep Cong-Thi, Linh Pham Dieu, Robin Thibaut, and 4 more authors

Water, Jun 2021

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@article{cong-thi_imaging_2021,
  author = {Cong-Thi, Diep and Dieu, Linh Pham and Thibaut, Robin and Paepen, Marieke and Ho, Huu Hieu and Nguyen, Frédéric and Hermans, Thomas},
  doi = {10.3390/w13131743},
  issn = {2073-4441},
  issue = {13},
  journal = {Water},
  month = jun,
  pages = {1743},
  title = {Imaging the Structure and the Saltwater Intrusion Extent of the Luy River Coastal Aquifer (Binh Thuan, Vietnam) Using Electrical Resistivity Tomography},
  volume = {13},
  url = {https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/13/13/1743},
  year = {2021},
}

A new workflow to incorporate prior information in minimum gradient support (MGS) inversion of electrical resistivity and induced polarization data

Robin Thibaut, Thomas Kremer, Annie Royen, and 3 more authors

Journal of Applied Geophysics, Apr 2021

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@article{thibaut_new_2021-1,
  author = {Thibaut, Robin and Kremer, Thomas and Royen, Annie and Ngun, Bun Kim and Nguyen, Frédéric and Hermans, Thomas},
  doi = {10.1016/j.jappgeo.2021.104286},
  issn = {09269851},
  journal = {Journal of Applied Geophysics},
  month = apr,
  pages = {104286},
  title = {A new workflow to incorporate prior information in minimum gradient support (MGS) inversion of electrical resistivity and induced polarization data},
  volume = {187},
  url = {https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0926985121000331},
  year = {2021},
}