Curriculum Vitae

Personal Data:

Name Surname Date of Birth Nationality Sex Marital Status

Vahid Nourani 1975 Iranian Male Married

Telephone Fax E-mail [email protected] ; [email protected]; +98-41-33392409 +98-41-33344287 [email protected]

Academic Positions: (Last One First)

Date Title of Position Field of Specialization Name of Institution From To Professor Civil Eng. 2016 present Near East University,N. Cyprus Professor Civil Eng. 2014 present Tabriz University, Iran Associate Prof. Civil Eng. 2010 2014 Tabriz University, Iran Visiting Associate Prof. Civil Eng. 2010 2011 University of Minnesota, USA Assistant Prof. Civil Eng. 2006 2010 Tabriz University, Iran Apr. Sep. Visiting Researcher Hydrology Eng. Tohoku University, Japan 2004 2004

Educational Background: (Last One First)

Date Certificate Degree Field of Specialization Name of Institution Attended Received

Shiraz University and Tohoku Ph.D. Civil Eng. , Hydrology Jan.2006 University

M.Sc. Civil Eng. , Hydraulic Structures Tabriz University 2000

B.S. Civil Eng. Tabriz University 1998

Title of Post-Graduate Thesis: Comparison of Trial Load and Finite Elements Methods in Arch Dams Analysis

Title of Doctorate Thesis: Application of Liquid Analog Model to Flood Flow Routing

Research Interests: Rainfall-runoff modeling ,Artificial intelligence in hydrology, Hydroinformatics,Numerical methods in water sciences,Geostatistics, Stochastic hydrology, GIS

Teaching Experiences: (Last One First)

Dates Title of Course Level Name of Institution From To Special topics in water engineering Ph.D. 2008 present Tabriz University Advanced computational hydraulics Ph.D. 2006 present Tabriz University Advanced mathematics M.Sc. 2006 present Tabriz University Advanced hydrology M.Sc. 2005 present Tabriz University Numerical methods in water engineering M.Sc. 2007 present Tabriz University Application of GIS to water engineering B.S. 2007 present Tabriz University Engineering hydrology B.S. 2006 present Tabriz University Fluid mechanics B.S. 2008 present Tabriz University Tabriz University,Faculty of Special topics in water and soil Ph.D. 2010 present Agri. Water Resources Management M.Sc. 2010 present Tabriz Univ. of Medicine Advection - Dispersion modeling of M.Sc. 2014 present Tabriz University pollution Hydroinformatics M.Sc. 2014 present Tabriz University

Administrative Responsibilities: (Last One First)

Date Job Title Place of Work Name of Institution From To Head of Department Water Resources 2014 present Univ. of Tabriz, Faculty of Eng. Civil Eng. Head of Hydraulic Lab. Water Resources 2006 2012 Univ. of Tabriz, Faculty of Eng. Civil Eng.

Master and Doctorate Thesis Supervision:

Full Name of No Level Title of Thesis Student Ali Postdoc scolar Danandehmehr Liquid Analog Model for laboratory simulation of 1 Elnaz Sharghi Ph.D. Seepage

Ph.D.(Sahand Numerical and experimental investigation of earthen dam breach 2 Alireza Babaian Univ.)

Ph.D.(Khaje 3 Taher Rajaee Artificial Intelligence approach for sediment modeling Nasir Univ.) A hybrid black box model for quantity and quality modeling of 4 Rezagoli Ejlali Ph.D. groundwater Genetic programming-Wavelet conjunction model for rainfall- 5 Mehdi Komasi Ph.D. runoff modeling Theoretical and experimental system identification of rainfall- 6 Farzad Saidi Ph.D. runoff process Climate change effect on leachate generation of Tabriz landfill Aida Hosseini 7 Ph.D. and water resourcespollution; providing leachate control Baghanam strategies. 8 Amin Mohebi M.Sc. Gravity concrete dam shape optimization by ACO 9 Yusef Gafari M.Sc. Gravity concrete dam shape optimization by GA 10 Simin M.Sc. Optimal design of open channel section by heuristic approaches Shahradfar 11 Kamran Salehi M.Sc. Application of ANFIS and Wavelet to Rainfall-runoff modeling

12 Mojtaba Valipor M.Sc. Nonlinear modeling of rainfall-runoff in GIS environment

13 Elnaz Sharghi M.Sc. Sattarkhan earthen dam seepage analyze by ANN Samira 14 M.Sc. ARIMA-ANN hybrid modeling of rainfall-runoff Rumianfar 15 Vahid Sepehri M.Sc. Gorgnrood runoff analyze by GIS Javad 16 M.Sc. Parameters estimation of Nash’s model by GA Khajemohamadi lar A combined wavelet-ANN multivariate model for rainfall-runoff 17 Mehdi Komasi M.Sc. process Fuzzy logic approach for Ligvanchai watershed rainfall-runoff 18 Leila Malekani M.Sc. modeling Application of GIS tools for geomorphological rainfall-runoff 19 Hadi Delafroz M.Sc. modeling 20 Mehdi Kord M.Sc. A complex aquifer hydraulic parameters estimation by GA Investigation of water temperature effect on sediment load via 21 Ahad Nourpor M.Sc. ANN Mohamad Evapotranspiration estimation of Ligvanchai watershed using 22 M.Sc. Soltannejad ANN Nima M.Sc.(Polytec 23 Amameh watershed runoff modeling by TOPMODEL in GIS Sabokrohie hnic Univ) Rahim Prediction of Ligvanchai watershed precipitation by Time series 24 M.Sc. Karimzadeh models

25 Naime Abolvaset M.Sc. Multi reservoir water resources management optimization GP

A geomorphological ANN model for watershed sediment 26 Omid Kalantari M.Sc. forecasting TOPMODEL application for event based modeling of rainfall- 27 Arash Roghani M.Sc. runoff process

Mohamadreza 28 M.Sc. Using WMS for rainfall-runoff modeling Mosavi

29 Frhad Tagizadeh M.Sc. Cokriging application to estimation permeability coefficient

30 Nazila Kardan M.Sc. Dam outlet optimization by GA

31 Mina Sayahfard M.Sc. Sensevity analysis of evapotranspiration parameters by ANN

32 Behnaz Amini M.Sc. Extraction of hysterisis curves of hydrological processes by ANN

33 Ehsan Entezari M.Sc. Using ANN and RBF methods for space-time modeling of rainfall

34 Mehdi Hajizadeh M.Sc. Non-linear cascade resorvires model for rainfall-runoff simulation

Aida Hosseini Conjuction of ANN, wavelet and SOM methods for precipitation 35 M.Sc. Baghanam modeling

Entropy concept for ANN-based modeling of rainfall-runoff 36 Tohid Rezapour M.Sc. process Masoumeh Application of clustring methods to select inputs of ANN model in 37 M.Sc. Parhizkar rainfall-runoff modeling 38 Farzad Soumi Ph.D.

39 development of geomorphologic rainfall-runoff models based on Faege Nyazi Ph.D. watershed landuse\cover changes and urbanization 40 Nasrin M.Sc. Trend analysis of runoff process by compounding Mann- Nezamdost Kendall’s and discrete wavelet transform 41 Safa M.Sc. Effect of DEM Resolution in Extraction of Hydro- Mokhtaryan Geomorphologic Parameters

42 Maryam M.Sc. Application of Wavelet Transform to Preprocess High Resolution Khosravi DEM for Hydrological Applications 43 M.Sc. Wavelet-based de-noising for ANN-based modeling of sediment Aida Yahyavi load 44 M.Sc. Farzad Improvement of artificial neural network modeling for rivers Hassannejad streamflow forecasting based on wavelet denoising method

45 Masoud M.Sc. Multi Station and Multi Resolution Rainfall-Runoff Modeling via Mehrvand ANN 46 M.Sc. Using geostatical and neural network analysis of spatiotemporal Navid Vakili forecasting of underground levels variations : case study in tabriz plain 47 M.Sc. Ahad Kashefyeh Implication of geostatics tool to optimize position of boreholes

48 Gholamreza M.Sc. Sediment Load Estimation in the Ajichay Basin Stations Using Andalib Artificial Neural Networks and Support Vector Machines 49 M.Sc. Farhad alizadeh Spatial estimation of suspended sediment load of Ajichay basin

50 M.Sc. Change Detection Of Hydrological Processes Using Sevil Ranjbar Wavelet-Entropy Complexity Measure Case Study : Urmia Lake 51 M.Sc. Faranak Selection of the Robust Streamflow Forecasting Model Using Totonchi wavelet-Entropy Complexity Criterion

52 M.Sc. Application of ensemble clustering to improve ensemble Sadeg Vanda forecasting of hydrological processes

53 Saleh M.Sc. Application of PSIAC and modified PSIAC to estimate sediment Mohsenzadeh yield of Aji-Chay basin via GIS" 54 Hamed M.Sc. Application of time series ensemble clustering to improve Mollazadeh forecasting of hydrological processes 55 M.Sc. Reza Zayerfar Rainfall-runoff modeling via integrated artificial neural networks

56 Reza M.Sc. The Hydraulic Simulation of the Effects of New Dikes to Reduce Samadzadeh the Evaporation Area; Case study: Urmia Lake, Iran 57 M.Sc. Spatial temporal estimation of Aji Chay rainfall stations by Reza Shahidi employing geostatistical tools 58 Saideh M.Sc. Change-Point detection in hydrological time series, Case study : Hajizadeh Urmia lake 59 Farzad Yusef M.Sc. Multivariate Optimization of Rain-gage Network using poor geostatistical methods (case study: Ajichay Basin) Gholamreza PhD Watershed change detection using hybrid conceptual model- 60 Andalib artificial intelligence

61 Shahram PhD Simulation of contaminant transport in porous media using Mousavi artificial intelligence-meshless interpolation hybrid model 62 PhD Mehdi Golipour

63 PhD(Najaf Noise injection–denoising technique to improve artificial Afshin Partovian Abad IAU) intelligence-basedmodeling of hydrological processes. 64 M.Sc. Investigation of overcoming and salinity of groundwater incoastal Masoud Parvan aquifers 65 Mahsa M.Sc. Investigating the effect of hydroclimatological parameters Gasemzadeh onUrmia lake water leve 66 M.Sc. Assessment of Changes in Hydrological Processes Using Narges Azad HybridMann-Kendall and Wavelet Transform (Urmia Lake Watershed) 67 M.Sc. Estimation of unknown groundwater pumping rate using a Elnaz Pezeshki dataassimilation algorithm 68 M.Sc. Applying The Data Mining Techniques to Forecast Long- Amir Moulajo TermHydro-Climatological Processes Using Sea Surface Temperature 69 M.Sc. pplication of artificial intelligence approach and remotly Mahsa Jalali sensedimagery for soil moisture evaluation 70 M.Sc. Comparison of Different Seasonal Models For Hessam Najafi ForecastingHydrological Processes 71 M.Sc. Said Soleimani Catchment clustering based on hydro-climatological features

72 M.Sc. Optimum Operation of Eleviyan Reservoir via Improved Reza Dashti Harmony Search Algorithm 73 Ph.D. Development of distributed decision making model for Farid Abbasi smart water griddesign based on exchange mechanism

74 Ph.D. Fractal characterization of pore Self-compacting lightweight Vahab Naderi concrete containingsilica fume 75 Ph.D. Nima Farbodfam (Roudhen IAU) 76 Ph.D. Saber Sharifi (Urmia Climatological impacts of large-scale sprinkler irrigation schemes. Univ.) 77 PhD Tohid Rezapour

78 M.Sc. Application of feature extraction methods for AI-based Zahra investigation of climate change effects on hydro climatological Razagzadeh parameters 79 M.Sc. Abi Longitudinal dispersion coefficient estimation of Ajichay and its Rostamzadeh pollution modeling affected by tannery industry

80 M.Sc. Behnam Sedagat Flow Routing Using Haar Wavelet Colocation Method

81 M.Sc. Saman Using Multiple Linearization Conceptual Model and Artificial Pourbayrami Neural Network (ANN) for Flow Routing

82 M.Sc. Spatio-Temporal disaggregation of rainfall using rain-gauge and Armin Farshbaf radar derived data

83 M.Sc. Hybrid Data Mining Models for Hydrological Forecasts Ali Davanlo Show original message

Publications:

A: Books

Type of Work Date of Title Publisher Publication Translation Compilation Advanced Mathematics in Civil ****** Gotenberg,Tehran 2011 Engineering in Persian

“ Application of Meta-Heuristic NOVA Publication, Optimization Approaches to USA Investigate Velocity Profile Effect on Book Chapter Optimal Design of Open Channels” in 2010 In English Editors: Gerhard Hydraulic Engineering: Structural Hirsch and Bernd Applications, Numerical Modeling and Environmental Impacts Kappel

“Quantity and Quality Modeling of InTech Groundwater by Conjugation of ANN Publication, Book Chapter and Co-Kriging Approaches”in Austria March 2012 In English Wate Resources Management and Modeling Editor: P.C. Nayak

Book Chapter “Evaluation of wavelet-based de- In English Springer noising approach in hydrological models linked to Editors: Artificial Neural Networks” in Feb.2014 Islam, T., Srivastava, Computational Intelligence P.K., Gupta, M., Techniques in Earth and Zhu, X. Environmental Sciences Book Chapter “Implication of feature extraction In English methods to improve performance of Taylor hybrid wavelet-ANN rainfall-runoff and Francis model” in Sept. 2014 Case Studies in Intelligent Editors: Computing – Achievements and Issac,B., Israr, N Trends In Persian

Basics of Hydroinformatics Univ of Tabriz Press Oct. 2015

“Conjunction of SOM-Based Book Chapter Clustering Method In English and Hybrid Wavelet-ANFIS Approach For OMICS Groundwater Level Prediction” in Editor: Dec. 2015 Ata Nadiri Application of Artificial Intelligence Methods in Geosciences and AdvancedHydrology Mathematics in Civil In Persian Gotenberg,Tehran Dec. 2016 Engineering

Second Edition

B: Papers ISC indexed (in Persian with English abstract) Date of No. Title of Paper Authors Place of Publication Publicatio n

Suspended Sediment Load Estimation Using Geostatistics, Nourani,V.,Bidokhti,N. 1 Iran Water Res. 2005 Case Study: Talkherood River of Tabriz(in Farsi)- T,Abedini,M.,J., Research Journal Vol. 1(2) Rakhshanderoo,G.R. Application of Liquid Analog Model for Hydrology Nourani,V.,Hassanzade J. Tabriz Univ. 2006 2 Education; 1: Rainfall-Runoff Modeling (in Farsi) h,Y., Monadjemi,P. Faculty of Eng Vol. 32 (3) 2008 Estimation of hydraulic parameters of confined aquifers Mogaddam,A, Iran Water Res. 3 Vol. 3(3) using Genetic Algorithm optimization technique(in Farsi) Nourani,V.,Kord,M. Research Journal

Mogaddam,A, 2008 4 Modeling of Tabriz plain rainfall using ANNs (in Farsi) J. Agric. Sci. Nourani,V.,Nadiri,A.O. Vol.18(1) Ann potential in multi-station modeling of suspended load in Alami,M.T. , Nourani , 2009 5 J. Agric. Sci. comparison with sediment rating curve method V. ,Nazmara , H. Vol.19(2) Estimation of hydraulic parameters of Unconfined aquifers Mogaddam,A, Water and 2009 6 using Genetic Algorithm optimization technique(in Farsi) Nourani,V.,Kord,M. Wastewater Journal Vol.5(1) Mogaddam , A.A. , Neural-Kriging model for time-space modeling of Iran Water Res. 2009 7 Nourani,V., Nadiri , groundwater Research Journal Vol.5(1) A.O. Nourani, V., Alami,M.T. Iran Water Res. 2009 8 A geomorphological unit hydrograph based on liner reservoir ,Delafrouz , H. , Sepehri Research Journal Vol. 4(3) , V. Artificial neural networks application to sensitivity Aminfar,M.H.,Nourani, J. Civil & Env. 2009 9 analysis of effective parameters on suspended sediment V.,Nourpor,A. Eng.,Tabriz Univ. Vol.39(2) load; case study: Ligvanchay River Nourani, V. Rainfall-runoff modeling by ANFIS and ANN J. Civil & Env. 2010 10 Keynejad, M.A. Eng.,Tabriz Univ. Vol. 34(4) approachs Malekani, L. Nourani,V. J. Civil & Env. 2011 11 Peak discharge estimation of dam breach by ANN Hakimzadeh, H. Eng.,Tabriz Univ. Vol.40(3) Babaian, A.,R. Moradi, Gh. Cokriging application to estimation permeability Nourani,V. J. Civil & Env. 2012 12 coefficient Taghizadeh, F. Eng.,Tabriz Univ. Vol.42(3)

Nourani, V. J. Civil & Env. 2011 13 Application of GA to optimize dam outlet Keynejad,M.A. Eng.,Tabriz Univ. Vol.40(3) Kardan, N. A hybrid Goal Programming method and ANFIS for Nourani,V., Iran Water Res. 2013 14 Optimal Operation of a Multi-Objective Two-Reservoir Abolcvast,N., Salehi, K. Research Journal Vol.8(2) Systems Komasi,M. Water and 2013 15 Drought forecasting by SPI via ANFIS Alami,M.T. Wastewater Journal Vol.24(88) Nourani,V. Water and 2013 Inputs sensivitivy analysis of ANN for Nourani.V. 16 Wastewater Journal Vol.24(87) evapotranspiration forecasting Sayah Fard,M.

Irrigation and Water 2015 Land use impact on parameters of Nash’s conceptual Fakherifard, Ah. 17 Nourani, V. Eng. Journal Vol.5(9) rainfall-runoff model Nyazi,F J. Civil & Env. 2015 Change Detection of Hydrological Processes Using Nourani,V. 18 Ranjbar,S. Eng.,Tabriz Univ. Vol. 45(3) Wavelet-Entropy Complexity Measure Tootonchi, F. Water and Spatial clustring for ANFIS based groundwater quality Aalmai,M.T. 19 Nourani,V. Wastewater Journal 2016 modeling Daneshvar,F. Vol.27(3) Hassanzadeh,Y., Soil and Water Sci. 2015 Dam-Break Flood Waves Analysis and the Floodplain Nourani,V. Journal Vol.25(4) Sepehri,V. 20 Mapping Using Mathematical Model (Case Study: Delafrouz,H Vanyar Dam) Hassanzadeh,M. Almaspour,F Sediment Management by Multi-objective Operation of Hajiabadi,R. J. Civil & Env. 2016 21 Sefidrud Dam with Respect to Hydropower Generation Zarghami,M. Eng.,Tabriz Univ. Vol. 46(1) and Environmental Issues Nourani,V. Water and Soil 2016 Investigation of land use effects in geomorphological Fakherifard, Ah. 22 Nourani, V. Journal Vol. 30(2) unit hydrograph of linear reservoirs Nyazi,F Solgi,A. 2016 Improvement of ANN-based river flow modeling using Radmanesh,H Water Research Accepted 23 wavelet (Case Studt:Gamasyab River) Zarei,H. Journal Nourani,V. Invistigation of effect of hydrometeorological Nourani,V. Hydrogeomorpholog 2016 Azad,N. y Journal Vol. 2(7) 24 parameters of Ajichai on Urmia Lake's water level Ghasemzadeh,M. using Man-Kandall wavelet Sharghi,E. Water Resources 2016 Improvement of AI-based rainfall-runoff models via Partovian,A. 25 Nourani,V. Eng. Accepted noise jittering method Alami,M.T. Hydrogeomorpholog 2016 Invistigation of dominant effects on the groundwater Komasi,M. 26 Sharghi,S. y Vol.3(9) level recssion using wavelet-entropy cretrion Nourani, V. Journal Evaluation of Differential Evolution Algorithm in Dashti,R. J Water and Soil 2017 27 Optimum Operating of Eleviyan Single-Reservoir Dam Sattari,M.T. Resources Vol.6(3) System Nourani,V. Conservation J of Civil and Env. 2016 Using the Association Rules to Forecast the Maximum Moulajo,A. 28 Nourani,V., Researchs Vol.2(1) Monthly Precipitation of Tabriz Synoptic Station Sattari,M.T. The Hydraulic Simulation of the Effects of New Dikes Samadzadeh Fahim, R. Iran Water Res. 2016 29 to Reduce the Evaporation Area; Case study: Urmia Zarghami,M. Research Journal Accepted Lake, Iran Nourani,V. Evaluating the uncertainties in the semi-rigidity of M. Gholipour Feizi, Modares Mechanical 2016 V. Nourani, Engineering Vol.16(12) 30 connections of the pier base to optimization of finite A. Mojtahedi, element model updating M. Barghian Journal of Mousavi., Sh Noise effect on predection of flow in porous media via Environmental 2017 31 Nourani,V. Science and Accepted ANN Alami,M.T. Technology A robust finite element model updating method for M. Gholipour Feizi, Journal of Structural 2017 A. Mojtahedi, and Construction Vol.4(1) 32 pier’s structure with uncertainties in connections using V. Nourani, Engineering particle swarm optimization algorithm M. Barghian Journal of Water and 2017 A Hybrid Decision Tree/Association Rules Approach Nourani,V. 33 Sattari,M.T. Irrigation accepted for Long-Term Precipitation Forecasting Moulajo,A. Management Civil Eng. J 2017 Investigating Chloride concentration of groundwater Mousavi,Sh. 34 Nourani,V. (Tarbyat Modaress accepted by AI-wavelet coherency method Alami,M.T. Univ.) Investigating the Effect of Hydroclimatological Water and Soil 2017 Parameters on Trend in Variance of Water Level Nourani,V. Science Journal accepted 35 Fluctuations Using Wavelet Transform, (Case Study: Ghasemzadeh,M. Urmia Lake) Sharghi,V.

Iran Water Res. 2017 Hydroclimatic Phenomena Modeling Using Wavelet- Nourani,V. 36 Sharghi,E. Research Journal accepted Holtwinters Mode Najafi,H. Iran Water Res. 2017 Spatial-temporal disaggregation of rainfall time series Farbodfam,N 37 Nourani,V. Journal accepted using wavelet-artificial neural network hybrid model Aminnejad,B. J. Civil & Env. 2017 Multi-station nitrate prediction via artificial Sharghi,E. 38 Nourani,V. Eng.,Tabriz Univ. accepted intelligence and soft computing tools Andalib,G

B: Papers, ISI or indexed (in English) Date of No. Title of Paper Place of Publication Authors Publication Laboratory Simulation of a Geomorphologic Runoff J. Env. Hydrol. 2006 1 Nourani,V., Monadjemi,P. Routing Model Using Liquid Analog Circuits Vol. 14(1)

Semi-distributed flood runoff model at sub-continental 2 Nourani,V., Mano,A. Hydrol. Process. 2007 scale for southwestern Iran Vol. 21

Liquid Analog Model for laboratory simulation of Nourani,V.,Singh,V.P., 3 J. Hydrol. Eng. 2007 rainfall-runoff process Monadjemi,P. Vol. 14(1)

Trends App. Sci. 4 Forecasting spatiotemporal water levels of Tabriz aquifer Nourani,V.,Mogaddam,A. 2008 Res. A.,Singh,V.P.,Nadiri,A.O. Vol. 3(4)

. Journal of Urban A comparative study on calibration method of Nash's 5 and Environmental 2008 rainfall-runoff model Nourani , V. Engineering Vol. 2(1)

A combined neural-wavelet model for prediction of Nourani,V., Eng. Application of 6 2009 watershed precipitation ,Ligvanchai, Iran Alami,M.T.,Aminfar,M.H. Artificial Intligence Vol. 22

T. Rajaee Prediction of daily suspended sediment load using wavelet International 7 S.A. Mirbagheri and NF combined model V. Nourani Journal Environ. 2009 A.Alikhani Science Technology Vol. 7(1)

Using ANNs for sediment forecasting of Talkherood river Journal of Urban 8 2009 mouth Nourani, V. and Environmental Vol.3(1) Engineering An ANN-based model for spatiotemporal groundwater Nourani,V.,Mogaddam,A. 2009 9 Hydrol. Process level Forecasting A., Nadiri,A.O Vol. 22

Three geomorphological rainfall-runoff models based on Nourani,V.,Singh,V.P. CATENA 2009 10 the linear reservoir concept ,Delafroz,H. Vol. 76(3)

A multivariate ANN-wavelet approach for rainfall-runoff Nourani,V., Water Resor. 2009 11 modeling Komasi,M.,Mano,A. Manage Vol. 23

T. Rajaee Daily suspended sediment concentration simulation using Science of the Total 12 S.A. Mirbagheri ANN and neuro-fuzzy models M. Zounemat-Kermani Environment 2009 V. Nourani Vol. 407 V. Nourani

Application of ant colony optimization to optimal design Journal of 13 S. Talatahari 2009 of open channels Hydraulic Research P. Monadjemi Vol.47(5) S. Shahradfar

Reply to comment on ,Nourani V ,Mogaddam AA ,Nadiri Hydrological 14 AO.2008.An ANN- based model for spatiotemporal 2010 Nourani, V. Processes groundwater level forecasting. Vol.24(3)

S.A.Mirbagheri

Neuro-fuzzy models employing wavelet analysis for Hydrological 15 V. Nourani 2010 suspended sediment concentration prediction in rivers T. Rajaee Science Journal Vol.55(7) A. Alikhani

An integrated artificial neural network for Environmental Nourani , V. 2010 16 spatiotemporal modeling of rainfall-runoff- Engineering Science Kalantari, O. Vol.27(5) sediment processes Spatiotemporal Groundwater Level Forecasting in Nourani,V. Environmental 2011 17 Coastal Aquifers by Hybrid Artificial Neural Edjlali, R.G. Engineering Science Vol.28(3) Network-Geostatistics Model: A Case Study Alami, M.T.

Nourani V. Two hybrid artificial intelligence approaches for Journal of 2011 18 Kisi, O. modeling rainfall–runoff process Hydrology Vol.402 Komasi, M.

Roushangar,K. Hassanzadeh,Y. Studying of flow model and bed load transport in a Journal of 2011 19 Keynejad, M.A. coarse bed river: case study - Aland River, Iran Hydroinformatics Vol. 13(4) Alami,M.T. Nourani, V., Mouaze, D.

TOPMODEL capability for rainfall-runoff Nourani, V., Journal of Urban 2011 20 modeling of the Ammameh watershed at different A. Roughani, and Environmental Vol.5(1) time scales using different terrain algorithms M. Gebremichael Engineering

Rajaee,T. River suspended sediment load prediction: Nourani, V. Journal of 2011 21 Application of ANN and wavelet conjunction Vol.16(8) model Zounemat-Kermani,M. Hydrologic Eng. Kisi,O.

Implementation of Artificial Neural Network Nourani, V. Journal of 2012 22 Technique in the Simulation of Dam Breach Hakimzadeh, H. Hydroinformatics Vol.14(2) Hydrograph Amini, A.B.

Amini,A.R . Application of AI tools to estimate prak outflow Int. J. Earth Sci. Vol.4(6) 23 Nourani,V. from earth dam breach Eng. 2011 Hakimzadeh,H.

Sensitivity analysis of the artificial neural network Nourani,V. Advances in 2012 24 outputs in simulation of the evaporation process at Engineering Sayyah Frad, M. Vol. 47(1) different climatologic regimes Software

A Hybrid Wavelet—Genetic Programming Nourani ,V. Journal of 2011 25 Approach to Optimize ANN Modelling of Komasi, M. Hydrologic Eng. Vol. 17 Rainfall—Runoff Process Almai, M.T.

Application of Continues Wavelet Transform to Investigate the Resolution Effect of Digital Int. J. Soft Comp. 2011 26 Nourani ,V. Elevation Model on Topographic Index Eng. Vol.1(5) Distribution

Nourani, V. Journal of Investigating the ability of Artificial Neural Network 2012 27 Hosseini Baghanam, A. Environmental (ANN) models to estimate missing rain-gauge data Vol.19(1) Gebremichael, M. Informatics

Nourani, V. Hosseini Baghanam, A. Classification of groundwater level data using SOM to Int. J. Soft Comp. 2012 28 develop ANN-based forecasting model Daneshvar, F. Eng. Vol.2(1) Alami, M.T.

Integration of Artificial Neural Networks with Nourani ,V. J. Computing in 2013 29 Radial Basis Function Interpolation in Earthfill Dam Seepage Modeling Babakhani, A. Civil Eng. (ASCE) Vol.27(2) Nourani, V. Two semi distributed ANN-based models for estimation Journal of 2012 30 Kalantari, O. of suspended sediment load Hydrologic Eng. Vol.17 (22) Hosseini Baghanam, A.

Nourani ,V. Geomorphology–based genetic programming approach Journal of 2013 31 Komasi, M. for rainfall–runoff modeling Hydroinformatics Vol.15(2) Almai, M.T.

Nourani ,V. Artificial Integrated ANN Model for Earthfill Dams Seepage Sharghi, E. 2012 32 Intelligence Analysis, Case Study: Sattarkhan Dam, Iran Aminfar,M.H. Vol. 1(2) Research

Assessment of slope stability in embankment dams using Nourani, V. Int. J. Adv. Civil 2012 33 artificial neural network (case study: Zonouz embankment dam) Ghaffari, H. Eng. Architecture Vol.1(1)

Landslide Susceptibility Mapping with Analytical Int. J. Ghaffari, H. 2012 34 Hierarchical Process and GIS Techniques (Case study: Computer Science Nourani, V. Vol.1(4) Zonouz Plain, East Azerbaijan, Iran) Manage. Res.

Int. J. Evaluation of Wavelet Denoising Performance Via an Hassan Nejad,F. 2012 35 Computer Science ANN-Based Streamflow Forecasting Model Nourani, V. Vol.1(4) Manage. Res.

Int. J. An ANN-Based Data Driven Approach for Multi-Station Mehrvand,M. 2012 36 Computer Science Rainfall-Runoff Modelling Nourani,V. Vol.1(4) Manage. Res.

Nourani,V. Using Self-Organizing Maps and Wavelet Transforms for Space-Time Pre-Processing of Satellite Precipitation and Hosseini Baghanam,A. 2012 37 J. of Hydrology Runoff Data in Neural Network Based Rainfall-Runoff Adamowski, J. Vol.476 Modeling Gebremichael, M.

Wavelet-based regularization of the extracted Nourani, V. Hydrolological 2014 38 topographic index from high resolution topography for Zenardo, S. Processes Vol. 28(3) hydro-geomorphic applications

Conjunction of SOM-based feature extraction method Nourani, V. Journal of 2013 39 and hybrid wavelet-ANN approach for rainfall-runoff modeling Parhizkar, M. Hydroinformatics Vol.15(3) International Journal of Evaluation of Earth Dam-Breach Parameters and Nourani, V. 40 Agriculture 2013 Resulting Flood Routing case study: Aidoghmosh Dam Mousavi, Sh Innovations and Vol.1(4) Research

International Nourani, V. Journal of Conjuction of ANN and threshold based wavelet de- 2013 41 Yahyavi R.,A. Management and noising approach for forecasting suspended sediment load Vol.2 (2) Hassan Nejad, F. Information Technology

International Nourani, V. Journal of Application of Artificial Neural Neural Network to 2013 42 Rezapour K.,T. Management and monitor the quality of treated water Vol.2 (2) Sayyadi, M. Information Technology

Nourani ,V. A geomorphology–based ANFIS model for multi-station Journal of 2013 43 Komasi, M. modeling of rainfall–runoff process Hydrology Vol.490

Nourani ,V. International ANN-RBF Hybrid Model for Spatiotemporal Estimation Journal of Applied 2013 44 Entezari,E. of Monthly Precipitation Case Study: Ardabil Plain Metaheuristic Vol.4(2) Yousefi,P. Computing

International Using Hybrid ARIMAX-ANN Model for Simulating Nourani ,V. Journal of Applied 2013 45 Rainfall - Runoff – Sediment Process Case Study: Roumianfar,S. Metaheuristic Vol.4(2) Aharchai Basin,Iran Sharghi,E. Computing

A Review on Applications of Artificial Int. J. Soft Comp. 2014 46 Intelligence-Based Models to Estimate Suspended Nourani ,V. Sediment Load Eng. Vol.3 (6)

Hakimzadeh, H. Genetic Programming Simulation of Dam Breach Journal of 2014 47 Nourani, V. Hydrograph and Peak Outflow Discharge Hydrologic. Eng. Vol. 19(4) Amini, A.B.

Nourani,V., Capability of Artificial Neural Network for detecting Parhizkar, M. Journal of 2014 48 hysteresis phenomenon involved in hydrological processes Vousoughi,F.D. Hydrologic. Eng. Vol. 19(5) Amini, B.

Nourani,V., Landslide susceptibility mapping at Zonouz plain, Iran using genetic programming and comparison with Pradhan,B., Natural Hazards 2014 49 frequency ratio, logistic regression, and artificial neural Ghaffari, H., (Springer) Vol.71(1) network models Sharifi, S.S. Nourani,V. Applications of hybrid Wavelet-Artificial Intelligence Hosseini Baghanam,A. 2014 50 J. Hydrology models in hydrology. A review Adamowski, J. Vol.514(6) Kisi,O.

Vahid Nourani, Ahmad Tahershamsi, A new hybrid algorithm for rainfall-runoff process 2014 51 modeling based on the Wavelet Transform and Genetic Peyman Abbaszadeh, J. Hydroinformatics Vol.16(5) Fuzzy System Jamal Shahrabi, Esmaeil Hadavandi

Seyed Ahmad Akrami, Development of nonlinear model based on wavelet-ANFIS Water Resources 2014 52 Vahid Nourani, for rainfall forecasting at klang gates dam S.J.S.Hakim Management Vol.28

Forecasting Daily Precipitation Using Hybrid Wavelet - Abazar Solgi, Neural Network Model and Comparison with Adaptive Advances in Civil 2014 53 Vahid Nourani, Neuro Fuzzy Inference System Model (Case Study Engineering Verayneh Station of Nahavand) Amir Pourhaghi

Vahid Nourani M.H. Aminfar Unsteady 2-D Seepage Simulation Using Physical Analog, Journal of 54 M.T. Alami 2014 Case of Sattarkhan Embankment Dam Hydrology Elnaz Sharghi Vol.519 Vijay P. Singh

A. Solgi, Hybrid Models Performance Assessment to Predict Flow F. Radmanesh, Int. J. Adv. Biol. 2014 55 of Gamasyab River H. Zarei, Biom. Res. Vol.2(5) V. Nourani

Daily and monthly suspended sediment load predictions Nourani,V. Journal of 2015 56 using wavelet based artificial intelligence approaches Andalib, G.R. Mountain Science Vol.12(1)

Saeidifarzad,B. Multi-site calibration of linear reservoir based Nourani,V. 2014 57 WATER-SUI geomorphologic rainfall-runoff models Alami,M.T. Vol.6(9) Chau, K.W. Nourani,V. Liquid analog circuits for laboratory simulation of Aminfar,M.H. J. Environmental 2014 58 steady-state seepage Alami,M.T. Hydrolgy Vol.(22) Sharghi,E.

Akrami, S.A. Environmental 2014 Using modified neural fuzzy and ANFIS-wavelet for Nourani, V. Engineering and 59 Published predection of rainfall data Hakim, S.J.S. Management online Mohammadhassani,M. Journal

Nourani,V. Journal of Water Wavelet based trend analysis of hydrological processes at Nezamdoust,N. 2015 60 and Climate different time scales Samadi,M. Vol.6(3) Change Daneshvar,F.

Nourani,V. Wavelet-entropy data pre-processing approach for ANN- Journal of 2015 61 Alami,M.T. based groundwater level modeling Hydrology Vol. 524 Daneshvar,F.

Nourani,V. Journal of Application of entropy concept for input selection of 2015 62 Rezapour Khangah,T. Environmental wavelet-ANN based rainfall-runoff modeling Vol.26(1) Hosseini Baghanam,A. Informatics

Feizi, M.G. Steel and Composite Effect of Semi-Rigid Connection in Improvement of Structures, An 2015 63 Mojtahedi,M. Seismic Performance of Steel Moment-Resisting Frames International Vol. 19(2) Nourani,V. Journal

Capability of Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System to Nourani, V. Int. J. Artif. Int. 2015 64 Model Suspended Sediment Transport (A Case Study: Alizadeh,F. Mech. Vol.3(6) Ajichay River) Roshangar,K. Nourani,V. Implication of SOM-ANN based clustering for multi- 2014 65 Mehrvand,M. J, Urban Env. Eng. station rainfall-runoff modeling Vol.8(2) Baghanam,A.H.

Nourani,V., Implication of remotely sensed data to incorporate land Fard,A.F., Niazi,F., Journal of 2015 66 cover effect into a linear reservoir-based rainfall-runoff model Gupta,H., Goodrich,D. Hydrology Vol. 529 Kamran, K.V.

Self-organizing map clustering technique for ANN-based Nourani,V. Journal of 2016 67 spatiotemporal modeling of groundwater quality Alami,M.T. Hydroinformatics Vol.18(2) parameters Daneshvar,F.

Evaluation of a Two-Stage SVM and Spatial Statistics Nourani, V. Water Resources 2016 67 Methods for Modeling Monthly River Suspended Alizadeh,F. Management Vol.30(1) Sediment Load Roshangar,K.

Stochastic Detection of land use/cover change effect on watershed's Nourani,V. Environmental 2017 68 response in generating runoff using computational Saeidifarzad,B. Research and Risk Vol.31(6) intelligence approaches Assessment

The hybrid of SOM clustering method and wavelet- Nourani,V. Journal of 2016 69 ANFIS approach to model and infill missing groundwater Alami,M.T. level data Daneshvar,F. Hydrologic Eng. Vol21(9)

Spatiotemporal groundwater level modeling using hybrid Nourani,V. Journal of 2016 70 artificial intelligence-meshless method Mousavi, S. Hydrology Vol. 536

Partovyan , A. Hybrid denoising- jittering data processing approach to Journal of 2017 71 Nourani,V. enhance sediment load prediction of muddy rivers Aalami, M.T. Mountain Science Vol.13(12) Comparative Investigation of Trial load and Int. J. Soft 2016 72 Finite Element Methods in Analysis of Arch Nourani, V. Computing and Vol.6(4) Dams Eng.

Estimation of Daily Global Solar Radiation using Wavelet Journal of Sharifi,S.S., Regression, ANN, GEP and Empirical Models: A Atmospheric and 2016 73 Rezaverdinejad,V. Comparative Study of Selected Temperature-Based , Nouran,V. Solar-Terrestrial Vol.149 Approaches Physics

An Emotional ANN (EANN) approach to modeling Journal of 2017 75 rainfall-runoff process Nourani,V. Hydrology Vol. 544

Roshangar,K., A Cost Model with Several Hydraulic Constraints for Alami,M.T., Journal of 2017 76 Optimizing in Practice a Trapezoidal Cross Section Nourani,V. Hydroinformatics Vol. 19(3) Nouri,A.

Nourani,V., Hydrological model parameterization using NDVI values 2017 Fard,A.F., Hydrology 77 to account for the effects of land-cover change on the Gupta,H., Goodrich,D., (published rainfall-runoff response Research Niazi,F., online)

Abazar Solgi1 2017 , Heidar Zarei 78 new approach to flow simulation using hybrid models ,Vahid Nourani Appl Water Sci (published , Ramin Bahmani online)

Partovyan , A. Optimizing Neural Network for Monthly Rainfall-Runoff 2017 79 Nourani,V. Modeling with Denoised-Jittered Data Journal of Tethys Aalami, M.T. Vol. 4(3)

EFFECT OF WAVELET-BASED DE-NOISING Nourani,V., J. Global Ecology 2017 80 METHOD ON CHANGE POINT DETECTION Hajizadeh,S. PROCESS IN HYDROLOGICAL TIME SERIES Sharghi,E. and Environment Vol. 5(3) Conjunction of wavelet transform and SOM-mutual Nourani,V. 2017 81 information data pre-processing approach for AI-based Andalib,G. J. Hydrology multi-station nitrate modeling of watersheds Dabrowska,D. Vol. 548

Environmental Pareto-optimal moving average-multigene genetic Danandeh Mehr,A. 2017 82 Modelling and programming model for rainfall-runoff modelling Nourani,V. Vol. 92 Software

Stochastic 2017 Hybrid denoising-jittering data pre-processing approach Nourani,V. Environmental 83 to enhance multi-step-ahead rainfall-runoff modeling Partovian,A. Research and Published online Risk Assessment

Alizadeh,M.J. A new approach for simulating and forecasting the Kavianpour, M.R. Journal of 2017 84 rainfall-runoff process within the next two months Kisi,O. Hydrology Vol. 548 Nourani , V.

Nourani,V. Conjunction of Radial Basis Function Interpolator and Mousavi,Sh. Journal of 2017 85 Artificial Intelligence models for Time-Space Modeling of Dabrowska,D. Contaminant Transport in Porous Media Sadikoglu,F. Hydrology Vol. 548

Nourani,V. Threshold-Based Hybrid Data Mining Method for Long- Water Resources 2017 86 Sattari,M.T. Term Maximum Precipitation Forecasting Moulajo,A Management Vol.31(9)

Rajaee,T. Journal of Groundwater Level Forecasting Using Wavelet and 2017 87 Nourani,V. Hydraulic Kriging Vol.2(2) Pouraslan,F Structures

Alizadeh,M.J. 2017 Wavelet-IANN model for predicting flow discharge in J. 88 Nourani,V. Published several days and months ahead Hydroinformatics Kavianpour, M.R. online Nourani,V. Cascade-based multi-scale AI approach for modeling Andalib,G.R. Hydrology 2017 89 rainfall-runoff process Sadikoglu,F. Research Accepted Sharghi,E.

Conjunction of Artificial Intelligence-Meshless Methods Nourani,V. J. 2017 90 for Contaminant Transport Modeling in Porous Media, Mousavi,Sh. an Experimental Case Study Sadikoglu,F Hydroinformatics Accepted

Solgi,A. Evaluation of Using Nonlinear Models to Precipitation 2017 91 Nourani,V. Forecasting Hydrological Sci J Marzooni Accepted

Nourani,V. Experimental and AI-based Numerical Modeling of Mousavi,Sh. J Contaminant 2017 92 Contaminant Transport in Porous Media Sadikoglu,F. Hydrology Vol. 205 Singh,V.

Improving capability of conceptual modeling of Roushangar,K. J. 2017 93 watershed rainfall-runoff using hybrid Wavelet-Extreme Alizadeh,F. Learning Machine approach Nourani,V. Hydroinformatics Accepted

Sharghi, E. Application of Different Clustering Approaches to Hydro- Nourani,V. J. Mountain 2017 94 climatological Catchment Regionalization in Soleimani,S Mountainous Regions, Case Study: Utah State Science Accepted Sadikoglu,F

Danademehr.A. A binary genetic programing model for teleconnection 2017 Nourani,V. Journal of 95 identification between global sea surface temperature and Hrnjica,B. Published local maximum monthly rainfall events Hydrology Moulajo,A. online

2017 Application of a Hybrid Association Rules/Decision Tree Nourani,V. Global and 96 Published Model for Drought Monitoring Moulajo,A. Planetary Change online

Research Activities:

Dates Title of Project Place of Work From To A combined neural-wavelet model for predection of ligvanchai Tabriz Univ. 2007 2008 precipitation

Vanyar Dam breach and break analysis Tabriz Univ. 2006 2008

Rainfall-runoff modeling based on linear reservoir concept Tabriz Univ. 2008 2009

Artificial Intligence applications to rainfall-runoff modeling Tabriz Univ. 2009 2010

Geomorphologic ANN model for sediment modeling Tabriz Univ. 2012 2013

Rainfall foreecasting of Ardabil watershed Tabriz Univ. 2013 2014

Bed and suspended sediment load modeling of Ajichai River Tabriz Univ. 2014 2015

East Azarbaijan Time-space modeling of Nahand wathershed sediment load 2012 2014 Water Org. Investigating possibility of establishing relationship among Ajichay East Azarbaijan 2013 2015 watershed runoff, suspended sediment load and bed load Water Org. National Urmia Urmia Lake rescue project 2015 2017 Lake rescue Org.

Papers Presented at National and International Scientific Assemblies:

Title of Paper Title and Place of Assembly Date

A combined neural wavelet model for prediction of Ligvanchai 9 th Int. Precipitation Conf. 2007 watershed precipitation (France, Paris)

Application of a threshold conditional neuron in rainfall- 3 rd National Civil Eng. Conf. 2007 runoff modeling (in Farsi) (Tabriz)

Multi station suspended sediment load estimation by ANN(in 3 rd National Civil Eng. Conf. 2007 Farsi) (Tabriz)

3 rd National Civil Eng. Conf. 2007 Tabriz aquifer groundwater level estimation via ANN(in Farsi) (Tabriz)

Using ANN in parameters effects on suspended sediment 3 rd National Civil Eng. Conf. 2007 load(in Farsi) (Tabriz) 1st National groundwater Groundwater level forecasting by ARIMA model (in Farsi) 2007 symposium (Behbahan) Numerical modeling for simulation of the flow around a bridge 7 th Int. River Eng. Conf., 2007 pipe(in Farsi) (Ahvaz) Hydraulic parameters estimation of confined aquifer by GA(in 25 th geography Conf. 2006 Farsi) (Tehran) Evaluation of ANNs ability for complex aquifer modeling(in 25 th geography Conf. 2006 Farsi) (Tehran) 15 th Congress of Asia and Rainfall-Runoff Modeling of South-western Iran by Pacific Division of AHER 2006 TOPMODEL (India) Time-space water level prediction model for complex aquifers Hydro Predict 2008 (Czech) 2008 2nd Int. Conf. on Water

Genetic Algorithm and Its Application in Statistical Analysis of Economics,Statistics and 2009 Flood Flows Finance (Greece)

26 th geography Conf. Spatiotemporal water levels forecasting by time series – (Tehran) 2007 geostatistics as a hybrid model (in Farsi)

3 rd National Water Res. A 3-D seepage analysis model for earthen dams(in Farsi) Manage. Conf. 2008 (Tabriz)

3 rd National Water Res. An ANN-ARIMA combined model for rainfall-runoff Manage. Conf. 2008 modeling(in Farsi) (Tabriz)

Investigation of the temperature effect on suspended sediment 3 rd National Water Res. load via ANFIS(in Farsi) Manage. Conf. 2008 (Tabriz)

3 rd National Water Res. Optimal design of concrete gravity dam using HBMO(in Farsi) Manage. Conf. 2008 (Tabriz)

3 rd National Water Res. Topographic data processing for rainfall-runoff modeling(in Manage. Conf. 2008 Farsi) (Tabriz)

3 rd National Water Res. Water supply network optimization by GA(in Farsi) Manage. Conf. 2008 (Tabriz)

3 rd National Water Res. Nash’s model optimal parameters obtained by GA(in Farsi) Manage. Conf. 2008 (Tabriz)

Rainfall-runoff modeling using ANFIS and ANN-wavelet 4 th National Civil Eng. Conf. 2008 models(in Farsi) (Tehran Univ.)

4 th National Civil Eng. Conf. Rainfall-runoff modeling using ANN-wavelet model(in Farsi) 2008 (Tehran Univ.)

Dam Eng. National Conf. ACO method for gravity dams optimization(in Farsi) 2009 (Zanjan)

Honey Bee Mating Optimization (HBMO) Implementation in Long term behaviour of dams 2009 Concrete Gravity Dam Layout Optimization(in Farsi) (Graz, Austria)

8th International Congress on Using of adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system for rainfall- Civil Engineering runoff modeling Shiraz University, Shiraz, 2009 (Shiraz ) 8th International Congress on Civil Engineering Sensitivity analysis of Dam breach parameters(in Farsi) Shiraz University, Shiraz, 2009 (Shiraz ) 8th International Congress on Meshless RBF method for earth dam seepage analysis(in Civil Engineering Farsi) Shiraz University, Shiraz, 2009 (Shiraz ) 8th International Congress on Civil Engineering ANFIS-wavelet hybrid model for runoff forecasting(in Farsi) Shiraz University, Shiraz, 2009 (Shiraz ) 8th International Congress on FIS and ANFIS models for suspended sediment load Civil Engineering forecasting(in Farsi) Shiraz University, Shiraz, 2009 (Shiraz ) 7 th. Int. Conf. Comparative study on calibration methods of Nash’s rainfall- on Environment, Ecosystems 2009 runoff model;Case study:Ammameh watershed and Development (Spain) Using artificial neural networks (anns) for sediment load 3 rd Int. Conf. on Estuaries & forecasting of Talkherood river mouth Coasts 2009 (Japan)

5 th. National Conf. on Civil Using of ANFIS for rainfall-runoff modeling (in Farsi) Engineering 2010 (Univ. of Mashad)

5 th. National Conf. on Civil Investigation of permeability variation effect in numerical Engineering 2010 modeling of Zonouz Dam seepage ( in Farsi) (Univ. of Mashad)

5 th. National Conf. on Civil A hybrid ARIMA-ANN model for rainfall-runoff-sediment Engineering 2010 process modeling of Aharchai watershed (in Farsi) (Univ. of Mashad)

WATER AND Permeability change driving effect on embankment dams Case GEOSCIENCE 2010 Study: The Zonouz embankment dam (Univ. Cambridge, UK)

Iranian 9th. Conf. in Numerical invistigation of bridge pier breach due to different Haydraulic 2010 flow regimes (Tarbyat Modares Univ.)

4 th. National Water Res. Sensevity analysis of evapotranspiration process’s parameters Manage. Conf. 2011 by ANN (Amir Kabir Univ.)

Using ANN and RBF methods for space-time modeling of 6 th. National Conf. on Civil rainfall Engineering 2011 (Semnan Univ.)

6 th. National Conf. on Civil Non-linear cascade resorvires model for rainfall-runoff Engineering 2011 simulation (Semnan Univ.)

Application of artificial intelligence tools to estimate peak Int. Conf. on Adv. Civil Eng. 2011 outflow from earth dam breach (India)

Community Surface Dynamic Wavelet-based DEM regularization methodology aimed at Modelin System 2011 improving distributed rainfall-runoff modeling (Colorado, USA)

Continues wavelet transform for extraction of topographic 9th WSEAS Int. Conf. features from high-resolution digital elevation model (EED '11) 2011 Montreux, Switzerland

Investigating the ability of Artificial Neural Network (ANN) 9th WSEAS Int. Conf. models to estimate missing rain-gauge data (EED '11) 2011 Montreux, Switzerland

9th WSEAS Int. Conf. Space pre-processing of satellite data for ANN-based rainfall (EED '11) 2011 runoff process Montreux, Switzerland

First Int. Conf. Dams and Slope stability analysis of Zounous earth dam by ANN Hydro-power 2012 Tehran 12th WSEAS Int. Conf. on Conjugation of Artificial Neural Network and Geostatistics Computer Applications in 2012 Approaches for Groundwater Modeling Science and Engineering Singapore

12th WSEAS Int. Conf. on Wavelet-based feature extraction of rainfall-runoff process via Computer Applications in 2012 Self-Organizing Map Science and Engineering Singapore

12th WSEAS Int. Conf. on ANN-based groundwater level forecasting employing SOM Computer Applications in 2012 clustering approach Science and Engineering Singapore

12th WSEAS Int. Conf. on Application of information contentto extract wavelet-based Computer Applications in 2012 feature of rainfall-runoff process Science and Engineering Singapore 9th Int. Congress on Civil ANN-Wavelet approach for satellite data pre-processing in Engineering, Isfahan, Iran 2012 rainfall-runoff modeling

Nordic water, XXVII Nordic Geomorphological-ANN Based Modeling for Estimation of Hydrolgical Conf., Finland 2012 Suspended Sediment Load

10th Int. Cong. Advances in Landslide susceptibility mapping with analytical hierarchical Civil Eng., Middle East process and GIS techniques (case study: Zonouz, East 2012 Azerbaijan, Iran) Technical University, Turkey

39th IAH Groundwater Level Forecasting Using a Clustering Approach Congress(International 2012 and Wavelet Neural Network Modeling Association of Hydrogeologists) Canada

2th National Conf. of Dam Slope stability of concrete dams Eng. 2010

8th Int. River Eng. Conf. Dam breach and break modeling of Vanyar erthen dam 2010 Ahvaz

8th Int. River Eng. Conf. GIS-based flood mapping of Goorganroud 2010 Ahvaz

8th Int. River Eng. Conf. Reserviors sedimentation by GSTARS 2010 Ahvaz

7 th. National Conf. on Civil Engineering Water-Electricity demand invistigation for Tabriz 2013 (Zahedan Univ.)

7 th. National Conf. on Civil Engineering Improvement of steel frames using rigids connections 2013 (Zahedan Univ.)

7 th. National Conf. on Civil Engineering Improves SARIMAX model for hydrological modeling 2013 (Zahedan Univ.) 8 th. Int. Conf. Water Res., Rainfall-runoff modeling based on SOM and wavelet pre- Hydraulics & 2013 processing thechniques Hydrology,Rhodes, Greece

8 th. Int. Conf. Water Res., Effect of DEM type and resolution in extraction of hydro- Hydraulics & 2013 geomorphologic parameters Hydrology,Rhodes, Greece

8 th. Int. Conf. Water Res., Appraisal to utilization of wavelet denoising approach in Hydraulics & 2013 ANN-based hydrological models Hydrology,Rhodes, Greece

8 th. Int. Conf. Water Res., Using ANNand ANFIS for modeling and sensivity analysis of Hydraulics & 2013 effective rainfall Hydrology,Rhodes, Greece

35th Hydrology and Water SOM-ANN-based Rainfall-runoff Modelling using Resources Symposium 2014 Data of Multiple Stations Perth, Australia

5th National Water Res. Comparision of LiDAR and USGS DEMs in extracting hydro- Manage. Conf. 2014 geomprphologic features of watersheds (Tehran)

5th National Water Res. Wavelet-based trend analysys of hydrological processes at Manage. Conf. 2014 different time scales (Tehran)

7 th. National Conf. on Civil Invistegation of the effect of high resloution DEM noise in Engineering 2014 hydrological modeling (Babol Univ.)

Spatial Estimation of Hydraulic Conductivity Using vth International Field Multivariate Geostatistical Model. Case Study: Tabriz Workshop for Young 2014 Subway Domain Hydrogeologists (Poland)

Int. Symp. on Dams in Global Optimal operation of multi-objective two reservoir systems Environmental Challenges 2014 (Indonesia)

11th International Congress Using Wavelet-Entropy Complexity Measure for Change on Advances in Civil 2014 Detection of Runoff Time Series Engineering (Istanbul)

Spatial analysis of Nahandchay watershed sedimendation via 13 th. Hydraulic Conf. 2014 rainfall-runoff-sediment modeling (Tabriz)

Experimental invistigation of flow pattern around steeped 13 th. Hydraulic Conf. 2014 spillway (Tabriz)

1 st National Geothechnic Landslide susceptibility of Tabriz using AHP model via GIS Eng. Conf. 2014 (Tehran) First Australasian Conference Wavelet Based Artificial Intelligence Approaches for on Artificial Life and 2015 Prediction of Hydrological Time Series Computational Intelligence (Newcastle, Australia)

Implication of ANN and SVM methods for Ajichai river 10 th Int. Cong. On Civil Eng. 2015 sediment modeling (Tabriz Univ.)

Comparision of different geostatistical interpolator for rainfall 10 th Int. Cong. On Civil Eng. 2015 modeling, Case Study: Ajichai (Tabriz Univ.)

Selection of the Robust Streamflow Forecasting Model Using 10 th Int. Cong. On Civil Eng. 2015 Wavelet-Entropy Complexity Criterion (Tabriz Univ.)

Computational simulation of flow and energy dissipation in 10 th Int. Cong. On Civil Eng. 2015 stepped spillways (Tabriz Univ.)

A new method for landslide susceptibility zonation using ANN 10 th Int. Cong. On Civil Eng. 2015 and GIS; (Case study: North of Tabriz plain) (Tabriz Univ.)

European Geosciences Union Investigation of land use effects on Nash model parameters General Assembly 2015 (Vienna)

Wavelet-entropy for hydrological processes impact on river Vienna Technical Univ. 2015 system (Vienna)

6th National Water Res. Invistigation of hydroclimatic parameters on Urmya lake Manage. Conf. 2016 waater level (Sharkord)

6th National Water Res. Multi-sattion calibration of Nash’s rainfall-runof model Manage. Conf. 2016 (Sharkord)

6th National Water Res. Invistigation of NDVI trend and UH parameters of rainfall- Manage. Conf. 2016 runoff model (Sharkord)

Rainfall-runoff modeling using ANFIS model and comparison 9 th. National Conf. on Civil with ANN, time series and multi variate linear regression Engineering 2016 models (Mashad Univ.)

9 th. National Conf. on Civil Application of hybrid wavelet-SVM and GP in hydrological Engineering 2016 time series prediction (Case study: Aji-chay watershed) (Mashad Univ.) 9 th. National Conf. on Civil Application of association rules in investigation of regional Engineering 2016 precipitation (Mashad Univ.)

2nd International Conference Numerical solution of diffusion equation by collocation haar on Civil,Architectural and 2016 wavelet Urban management (Amir Kabir Univ.)

2nd International Conference Assessment of Hydro-Climatologic Parameters Impacts on on Civil,Architectural and 2016 Urmia Lake Level Using Hybrid Wavelet-Mann Kendall Urban management (Amir Kabir Univ.)

2nd International Conference Solving Richards equation using nudging data assimilation on Civil,Architectural and 2016 algorithm Urban management (Amir Kabir Univ.)

2nd International Conference Use of nudging data assimilation algorithm to estimate on Civil,Architectural and 2016 unknown pumping rate Urban management (Amir Kabir Univ.)

2nd International Conference Optimal Operation of Single-Reservoir system via Modified on Civil,Architectural and 2016 Algorithm Harmony Search (Case Study: Eleviyan Reservoir) Urban management (Amir Kabir Univ.)

2nd International Conference Smart water grid as an approach to usage management in on Civil,Architectural and 2016 basins Urban management (Amir Kabir Univ.)

2nd International Conference Evaluation of Wavelet Denoising Performance via an ANN- on Civil,Architectural and 2016 Based Rainfall-Runoff modeling Urban management (Amir Kabir Univ.)

2nd International Conference Invistigation of effect of hydrometeorological parameters on on Civil,Architectural and 2016 Urmia Lake's water level using wavelet coherence measure Urban management (Amir Kabir Univ.)

2nd International Conference Comparison of Different Seasonal Models For Rainfall-Runoff on Civil,Architectural and 2016 modeling Urban management (Amir Kabir Univ.)

2nd International Conference Exploring Effects of Wavelet debug in the process of on Civil,Architectural and identifying change point in the hydrologic time series of 2016 Urban management basin, Urmia lake (Amir Kabir Univ.)

9th Temporal Chloride Modeling of Groundwater by Conjungtion GeoSymposium of Artficial Intelligence and Wavelet Transform Coherence of Young 2016 Approaches Researchers Silesia 2016 (Poland)

1St Int. Conf on Water, Co-kriging and SOM pre-processing tools for groundwater Enviroment and Sustainable 2016 quality modeling via ANN Development (Ardabil Univ.) 4 th . International Congress on Civil Engineering , Semi-distributed geomorphologic rainfall-runoff modeling via Architecture and Urban 2016 multi-station optimization Development, Shahid Beheshti University , Tehran , Iran

AI-based (ANN and SVM) statistical downscaling methods for EGU General Assembly 2017 2017 precipitation estimation under climate change scenarios (Vienna)

16 th Iranian Hydraulic Conf. Flow Routing Using Haar Wavelet Colocation Method 2017 (Ardabil)

2017 Using Multiple Linearization Conceptual Model and Artificial 16 th Iranian Hydraulic Conf. Neural Network (ANN) for Flow Routing (Ardabil)

2017 Application of feature extraction methods for AI-based 16 th Iranian Hydraulic Conf. investigation of climate change effects on hydro climatological (Ardabil) parameters

2017 Investigation of climate change on temperature and rainfall of 16 th Iranian Hydraulic Conf. Tabriz Station (Ardabil)

Presentation in workshops:

Country, Title of Presentation Workshop Title Collaborator Date Dr. Zarghami (Univ of Tabriz) Multi-criteria decision Univ. of Artificial Intelligence methods and Prof. making methods in water and Tabriz, in hydrologic modeling Szidarovszky environmental engineering Iran(2008) (Arizona Univ.,USA)

Univ. of Prof. Applications of ANNs to Hydroinformatics for Tabriz, Mano(Tohoku rainfall-runoff modeling rainfall-runoff modeling Iran(2010) Univ.,Japan)

Mathematical Modeling of Ministry of

Surface Hydrology Power,Iran

Prof. Univ. of Implication of wavelet transform Moradkhani Climate Change Tabriz, in climate change studies (Portland state Iran(2015) Univ., USA) Temporal chloride modeling of One-day Joint Workshop- groundwater by conjugation of cum-Seminar on Soft ITU, North Dr. Ali artificial intelligence and Computing Methods in Water Cyprus Danandehmehr wavelet transform coherence Resources Engineering approaches

Awards, Honorary Degrees, Medals and Positions:

Title of Award, Medal, Position Issuing Authority Country Year Ph.D. scholarship Ministry of Science Iran 2001 Abroad Research Scholarship Ministry of Science Iran 2004 Outstanding researcher award Tabriz University Iran 2008 7 Int. Conf. Environment, Best paper award Spain 2009 Ecosystems and Development

Abroad Research Scholarship Univ. of Tabriz Iran 2010

Outstanding researcher award Tabriz University Iran 2011

9 Int. Conf. Environment, Invited Plenary Speaker Swiss 2011 Ecosystems and Development Nominated in Marquis Who’s Who in Marquis Who’s Who USA 2012 the World 2012 12 Int. Conf. Applied Computer Best paper award Singapore 2012 Science 8 th. Int. Conf. Water Res., Invited Plenary Speaker Greece 2013 Hydraulics & Hydrology 12 Int. Conf. Applied Computer Invited Plenary Speaker Singapore 2012 Science

Nourani, et a.l, 2009, “A Most Cited paper in journal combined neural-wavelet model “Engineering Applications of for prediction of Ligvanchai Elsevier 2013 Artificial Intelligence” watershed precipitation” Vol. 22

Outstanding researcher award Tabriz University Iran 2013

The 2nd International Conference on Invited Kenote Speaker Iran 2016 Civil,Architectural and Urban managment Science

7th International Conference on Best paper award South Korea 2017 Environment and BioScience

Membership to Scientific Associations:

Name of Institution/Association Position Held Country Year

IAEH Member USA 2006-present

IWRA Member Iran 2006-present

IAHS Member Europe 2006-present Iran(Univ of J. Civil and Environ. Eng. Editorial board member 2007-present Tabriz) Iran(Univ of Hydro-Geomorpholog Journal Editorial board member 2014-present Tabriz) Iran(Univ of J. of Civil & Env. Res. Editorial board member 2015-present Qom) Iran(Medical Environment & Health Journal Editorial board member 2013-present Univ. of Tabriz)

Int. J. Soft Computing and Engineering Editorial board member India 2011-present

Advances in Computational Research Editorial board member India 2011-present

Int. J. Earth Sciences and Engineering Editorial board member India 2012-present

Int. J. Eng. and Advanced Technology Editorial board member India 2011-present

Int. J. Recent Tech. and Engineering Editorial board member India 2011-present

Artificial Intelligence Research Editorial board member Canada 2012-present

Radical J. Computer Science and Editorial board member India 2012-present Information Technology

Dataset Papers in Geology Journal Editorial board member USA 2012-present

Int. J. Soft Computing, Mathematics and Editorial board member Australia 2012-present Control

Language Proficiency:

Degree of Proficiency Writing Reading Speaking

Language Fair Fair Fair Poor Poor Poor Nativ Good Good Good Native Native

Farsi * * * Azari * * * Turkish * * * English * * *

Reviewer for Peer-reviewed Journals:

International Journals National Journals Journal of Hydrology Journal of Civil Engineering Faculty of Tabriz University Journal of Hydrologic Engineering Iran Water Resources Research Journal Journal of Environmental Management Water and Wastewater Journal Clean Agriculture Science Water Resources Management Iranian Journal of Watershed Management Journal of Science and Technology Journal of Hydroinformatics Journal of Irrigation & Drainage Eng. Journal of Environmental Informatics Applied Mathematical Modeling Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence International Journal Environ. Science Technology Int. J. Earth Sciences and Engineering Scintia Iranica Int. J. Hydrology Science and Technology Journal of Hydro-environment Rsearch Int. Journal of Eng. Water Management Hydrology Research Hydrogeology Journal Computers and Geoscinces Water Resources Research Journal of Mountain Science Nural Computing and Applications Natural Resources Research Hydrological Sci. J. Earth Sci Informatics

Referees

Name Affiliation E-mail Prof. Vijay P. Singh Texas A&M University , USA [email protected] Prof. Akira Mano Tohoku University , Japan [email protected] Prof. Naser Talebbeydokhti Shiraz University , Iran [email protected] Prof. Efi Foufoula UC at Irvine, USA [email protected] Prof. Jan Adamowski University of McGill [email protected] Prof. Mohammad Javad Abedini Shiraz University , Iran [email protected] Prof. Mekkonen Gebremichel UCLA,USA [email protected] Dr. Ardashir Ebtehaj U of Minnesota,USA [email protected]