My doctoral and post-doctoral research is focus on integrated water resources and related environmental issues, including satellite remote sensing of soil moisture and terrestrial water storage, soil moisture variability and scaling, and hydrology-vegetation interaction.  My future research activities are focused on utilization of satellite data, Geographical Information System, and information technologies to study the impact of climate variability on water resource availability and hydrologic responses of both urban and natural watersheds, land use / land cover monitoring, environmental monitoring and assessment, and their sustainable development.  At regional level, I am having expertise to implement advanced irrigation management through water requirement based on surface soil moisture estimated high resolution soil moisture data.  I would like to develop different monitoring approaches using earth-observing satellites for assessment and control of lake and reservoir eutrophication and lake and stream water quality (chlorophyll, suspended minerals, turbidity, and dissolved organic carbon).  I would also like to use these satellite data for monitoring impact on sustainable environmental development through soil moisture, snow, vegetation and precipitation.

My primary teaching interests are in the areas of hydraulics and hydrology, water resources and environmental engineering.   In addition, I am interested in teaching courses in remote sensing and Geographical Information System (GIS) applications for hydrology, agriculture, and water resources.  I believe that integrating GIS concepts into civil engineering education is very important not only to meet the urgent needs of GIS professionals in engineering, but also to teach students relevant skills in spatial analysis, reasoning, and data processing.  I am also interested in teaching courses in advanced computational and statistical applications which will enable graduating students to easily transition to the workplace.  As an instructor during my PhD I successfully developed and taught courses in Geographical Information System (GIS), and Hydrology and Hydraulic Engineering at the City College of New York.

I am an active member of multiple international professional organizations and have also been selected as chair and co-chair in International Conferences. I have also acted as a reviewer for the IEEE Journal of Geosciences and Remote Sensing, Journal of Spatial Hydrology, and Journal of the American Water Resources Association. I am actively associated with various students association such as ASCE, Phi Theta Kappa, Chi Epsilon, Steel Bridge, and Engineers without Borders.