Hydroinformatics Research Group at Clemson University
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Vidya Samadi, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Email: samadi@clemson.edu

Vidya is an Assistant Professor at Agricultural Sciences Department at Clemson University (CU) and Clemson Hydroinformatics research group. Vidya' background is in hydroinformatics, AI, and cyber-physical systems for water resources applications.

Hydroinformatics Researchers

Lisa Umutoni

Ph.D. Student in Agricultural System Management
Email: lumuton@clemson.edu

Lisa is a Ph.D. student in Agricultural Sciences Department at Clemson University. She joined Hydroinformatics group after completing her MS degree in Civil Engineering at IHE Delft Institute for Water Education,the Netherlands. She works on developing informatics and data analytics system for agricultural water use and irrigation management. Lisa enjoys cooking, traveling, and watching movies with friends.

Mostafa Saberian

Ph.D. Student in Civil Engineering-Water Resources
Email: mostafs@g.clemson.edu

Mostafa is a Ph.D. student in Water Resources at Clemson Glenn Department of Civil Engineering focusing on hydroinformatics and data analytics tool development for water resources simulation. Mostafa joined Hydroinformatics group after completing his MS degree in Water Resources Engineering and Management from Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic). Mostafa enjoys watching movies, listening to music, hiking, and traveling.

Adarsha Neupane

PhD Student in Agricultural System Management
Email: adarshn@clemson.edu

Adarsha studies hydroinformatics and data analytics applications in precision agriculture. Adarsha joined Hydroinformatics group after completing his M.Sc. degree in Civil Engineering-Water Resources from the University of Tokyo, Japan. Adarsha enjoys listening to podcasts and watching sports, especially cricket and football.

Nima Zafarmomen

PhD Student in Agricultural System Management
Email: nzafarm@clemson.edu

Nima works on hydroinformatics and data analytics tools for simulating water resources. Nima joined Hydroinformatics group after completing his M.Sc. degree in Civil Engineering- Water Resources from the Iran University of Science and Technology. Nima enjoys playing volleyball, taking pictures, and helping with charity work.

Krishna Panthi

M.S. Student in Computer Science
Email: kpanthi@g.clemson.edu

Krishna is a M.S. student in Computer Science at Clemson University focusing on informatics and data engineering applications for water resources simulation. Krishna enjoys watching movies, listening to music, hiking, and traveling.

Alumni

Ryne Philips

Ph.D. in Civil Engineering at the University of South Carolina
Email: ryne@email.sc.edu

Ryne studied flood frequency analysis and design metrics for water infrastructure systems. His research focused on the coastal catchments.Ryne is now a civil engineer and water resources team leader at SeamonWhiteside.

Praneeth Dulam

MS in Computer Science
Email: sdulam@g.clemson.edu

Praneeth worked on application of advanced deep learning in water data science.He developed new methods for water image processing.

Elnaz Heidari

Ph.D. student in Civil Engineering at Clemson University
Email: eheidar@g.clemson.edu

Elnaz worked on deep learning application for environmental modeling. Her research focused on the Carolinas' catchments.

Rishav Karanjit

MS in Computer Science
Email: rkaranj@g.clemson.edu

Rishav focused on informatics and deep learning tool develoment for hydroinformatics projects. Rishav currently works for Amazon as a Software Engineer.

Sadegh Sadeghi Tabas

Ph.D. in Civil Engineering-Water Resources
Email: sadegh@clemson.edu

Sadegh worked on the application of deep learning in rainfall-runoff modeling. He is currently working as a Software Engineer at NOAA.

Betina Guido Cruz

MS in Civil Engineering-Hydroinformatics at IHE Delft Institute for Water Education, Netherlands
Email: bgu001@un-ihe.org

Betina successfully defended her MS dissertation research. She worked on nature-based solutions for stormwater management and control. Betina is currently working for a company in Germany.

Leon Windheuser

BS Student in Informatics-Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany
Email: leon.windheuser@tum.de

Leon worked on deep learning modeling development for flood data. He is now a Software Engineer with an IT company in Germany.

Rakshit Pally

MS Student in Computer Science
Email: jpally@g.clemson.edu

Rakshit focused on informatics and web platform develoment for hydroinformatics projects. Rakshit currently works as a Software Development Engineer for Amazon.

Maxwell Hill

South Carolina's Governor's School for Science and Mathematics
Email: mth4@g.clemson.edu

Max is a high school student at South Carolina's Governor's School for Science and Mathematics. He worked on machine learning application for flood image analysis during summer 2021!

Alana Couch

South Carolina's Governor's School for Science and Mathematics
Email: acouch22@gssm.k12.sc.us

Alana is a high school student at South Carolina's Governor's School for Science and Mathematics. She worked on machine learning application for water resources data analysis during summer 2021!

Mahdi Erfani

Ph.D. Civil Engineering-Water Resources

Mahdi worked on application of Geographic Information System for environmental monitoring and assessment. He also worked on Image Processing approaches for flood data analysis.

Nattapon (PK) Donratanapat

M.Sc. Computer Engineering

PK developed Flood Analytics Information System (FAIS) web application to intelligently assess flood hazards in real-time. PK currently works for a softhware company in Charlotte, NC.

Ellie Y. Chao

M.Sc. Civil Engineering

Ellie studied flood modeling and simulation using various surface runoff modules. She had an awesome internship experience at the Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL) in summer 2019.

Romeer Desai

B.S. Biology

Romeer joined HRR in 2019 and studied environmental and biological assessment for mitigation projects.

Haigang Liu

Ph.D. Statistics

Haigang developed new methodologies and python tools for spatio-temporal analysis of rainfall and flood data. Dr Samadi co-supervised Haigang collaboratively with Dr. David Hitchcock at USC Department of Statistics.

Nicolet Chovancak

B.S. Civil Engineering

Nicolet developed code to assess the responses of streamflow to pollution release in South Carolina.

Masoud Yosufi

M.S. Water Engineering

Masoud researched drought modeling and computing.

Andrew Bjork

B.S. Civil Engineering

Andrew worked on developing python tools for flood analysis in South Carolina. He is now a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University and an engineer with Michael Baker International.

Thomas Martin

M.S. Applied Mathematics and Computer Sciences

Thomas researched on the application of hydrology models on surface flow simulation. He is currently a graduate student at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, ParisTech, France.

Hana Etemadi

Ph.D. Environmental Sciences

Hana worked on the impacts of climate change scenario on environmental systems and wetlands. She is now an assistant professor at Persian Gulf University, Iran.

Alexis Atlani

M.Sc. Applied Mathematics and Computer Sciences

Alexis developed uncertainty algorithms to simulate surface water system. Dr Samadi co-supervised Alexis collaboratively with colleagues at ParisTech, France.

Sahar Desai

B.S. Environmental Sciences

Sahar focused on data mining and analysis for environmental impact assessment.

Dara Ahmadi-Azar

M.S. Mechanical Engineering

Dara researched on data mining and preprocessing.

Masoumeh Ostad

M.S. Environmental Sciences

Masoumeh researched on ecological modeling and assessment.

Mohammadreza Farzaneh

M.S. Water Resources Engineering

Mohammadreza developed uncertainty algorithms to assess errors in climate models and downscaling approaches.

Emma Hopson

M.S. Civil Engineering

Emma designed new approaches for studying the impacts of climate change on the coastal water resources systems in Wales, UK. She is now an engineer with a Water Resources firm at Oxfordshire, UK.

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