Education

• Ph.D.  (2005)   University of California, Irvine
• M.S.   (1994)   University of Science and Technology, Iran
• B.S.   (1991)   University of Tabriz, Iran

Awards and Honors

• Graduate School Fellow, University of Arizona, 2002-2003
• Salt-River Project Doctoral Scholarship in Surface Water Hydrology, University of Arizona, 2001-2002
• ICSC-World Laboratory Hydrologic Science and Water Resources Fellowship, Switzerland,  2000-2001
• Japan Ministry of Education (Monbusho) Fellowship at Kyoto Unversity, Japan, 1999-2000

Research Interests

My research interests overlaps different disciplines including surface water hydrologic/hydraulic modeling, integrated water resources management, development and application of optimization methods and ensemble inference in water resources modeling, uncertainty assessment in estimating hydrologic states, parameters and fluxes; model calibration and data assimilation in distributed hydrologic systems; application of artificial intelligence and evolutionary methods in water resources system analysis; and impact assessment of climate change and variability on water resources systems.