People

Jon Goodall is a professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and serves as the Director of the UVA Link Lab. His department website is https://engineering.virginia.edu/faculty/jonathan-l-goodall.

Victor is working on the design of sensing and data systems for flood monitoring applications.

Yidi’ research focused on building a real-time flood monitoring system and applying it to enhance flood forecasting in urban environments.

Savannah is interested in coastal communities grappling with the impacts of climate change, including rising sea levels and heightened rainfall intensity. She explores the role of modeling and IoT in fortifying stormwater management systems, aiming to empower these communities to proactively address and adapt to future challenges.

Jiseon is interested in developing an Artificial Intelligence model for real-time urban inundation forecasting.

Katarina is interested in the impacts of climate change on urban watersheds and investigating how data science and policy can used to improve stormwater management in these areas.

Annelise is interested in the application of remote sensing, GIS, and ML/AI for water management and urban flooding.

Ovi is interested in applying Artificial Intelligence, remote sensing, GIS, and data-driven modeling techniques to address challenges in Water Resources Engineering, particularly in hydrology, climate change impact assessment.

Zarin’s primary research interests are in hydrological processes, climate change impacts, and the sustainability of water resources. Her previous research has involved the application of numerical modeling, remote sensing, and GIS tools.

Binata’s research interest comprises of hydrological processes in urban watershed and future consequences due to climate change. She studied numerical models, RS & GIS tools, and statistical approaches for her PhD research.

Natalie was part of the Cyber-Physical Systems NRT program and her PhD research is focusing on coastal urban flooding. She is now with Taylor Engineering.

Jiwoo studied the impacts of climate change on urban coastal flooding and the use of ML for real-time flood forecasting at the street-scale.

Sergio’s research during his postdoc was on urban-coastal flood modeling exploring the role of rainfall infiltration of flooding impacts. He is currently a hydrologic modeler at the US Department of Energy at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Ciara’s dissertation research used data science and GIS to measure how the presence of dams and levees affect the flooding vulnerability of marginalized populations in the U.S. and thus contribute to public health and environmental injustices. She is now a postdoc fellow with the US Census.

Jake was part of the Cyber-Physical Systems NRT program, and his dissertation evaluated stormwater quality and quantity compliance practices in Virginia, including the use of stormwater best management practices and environmental markets. He is now working as a stormwater engineer with the Utah Department of Transportation.

Linnea’s PhD research was at the interface of water resources engineering, environmental science, data science, and policy. She was a School of Data Science Fellow and was co-advised with Prof. Larry Band. She will be a Knauss Fellow at NOAA.

Alex researched smart stormwater management for coastal communities. His dissertation investigated the use of crowdsourcing, in particular Personal Weather Stations (PWS), for capturing rainfall during extreme weather events in Norfolk, VA. He is now a postdoc at UC-Davis.

Iman’s dissertation was on building cyberinfrastructure for the hydrology community, focusing on model sharing in HydroShare. He is now a postdoctoral scholar at BYU.

Faria’s dissertation applied data science approaches to better understanding transportation disruptions due to flooding. She is now a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Energy.

Chase’s research was on BMP maintenance and reviewing the database VDOT is building to better track BMP maintenance activities and costs.

Ben studied urban water infrastructure, specifically coastal flooding, real-time flood warning, and smart stormwater management. He is now an engineer at Paradigm Environmental.

Choi’s research was on the HydroShare and Earth Cube projects advancing reproducible hydrologic modeling. He is now a manager at K-Water.

Ruchir was a member of Cyber-Physical Systems NRT program and did research on deploying environmental sensors for engineering robust real-time IoT-based flood warning system. He is now with EY.

Yawen’s research was on resilient infrastructure systems, risk of flooding impacts to transportation infrastructure, and using 2D hydrodynamic models to simulate flooding in urban coastal environments. He is now a data scientist at Corteva Agriscience.

Sean explored the Things Network as a way to connect smart devices for stormwater monitoring. He now an engineer with Hazen and Sawyer.

Gina completed her PhD on data science and machine learning approaches for wetland delineation using LiDAR. She worked at ESRI following her graduation and is now Associate Director of Environmental Strategies at the Center for Geospatial Solutions in Denver, CO.

Jeff completed his PhD in the use of cyber-physical system approaches for smart stormwater management to mitigate flooding impacts. He is now an Assistant Professor at Oklahoma State University after completing a postdoc with the USGS in Middleton, WI as part of the USGS Office of Water Information (OWI) Data Science team through a Mendenhall Research Fellowship.

Mohamed completed his PhD at UVA working on the HydroShare project, researching ways to represent hydrologic models within a resource-based hydrologic information system, and designing a flood warning system for VDOT. He is now a professor at Cairo University and senior engineer at Dar.

Bakinam completed her PhD at UVA on modeling regional-scale hydrologic systems to understand water availability and drought. Her work is part of the DataNet Federation Consortium (DFC) project using iRODS to create workflows for hydrologic modeling. After serving as a postdoc at UVA, she joined Dewberry in 2019 as part of their resilience group.

Stuart is now a Project Manager with Bohler Engineering.

Mehmet was an engineer with ARCADIS after completing his Ph.D. degree. He is now an Assistant Professor at Inonu University in Turkey.

Ben completed his MS thesis on GIS and remote sensing approaches for wetland screening. He is now a Senior Principal Engineer with with Hazen and Sawyer.

Alicia completed her M.S. thesis in civil engineering and then a Ph.D. in Systems and Information Engineering at the University of Virginia with Prof Barnes. She is now a a product and data leader in Walmart’s pharmacy operations.

Alam was an engineer with Arcadis after completing his PhD degree and is now a Senior Principal Engineer with Hazen and Sawyer.

Phillis is a Senior Project Manager for Hydrology and HyHydraulics with LJA Engineering, Inc.

Mirza completed a postdoc at Virginia Tech and is now a Lead Engineer with the South Florida Water Management District.

Mostafa completed a postdoc at UIUC and is now a Water and Wastewater Planning Manager at WSSC Water.

Tony is Lead of Research at CUAHSI.