A professor and department chair in Civil and Environmental Engineering at a U.S. university, with research focusing on sustainable stormwater management, reactive transport, biogeochemical cycling, and machine learning in environmental modeling. Holds a Ph.D. from UC Davis, M.S. from University of Tehran, and B.S. from Sharif University of Technology. Career includes tenure-track roles from assistant to full professor, postdoctoral research at UC Davis, and work on NSF and Caltrans-funded projects. Skilled in inverse modeling, parallel computing, and data visualization.