ABSTRACT

Mehdi Vafakhah received his BSc from the Department of Rangeland and Watershed Management at Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources University of Gorgan, Gorgan, Iran, in 1996, and his MSc and PhD from the Department of Watershed Management at Tarbiat Modares University and from the Department of Rehabilitation of Arid and Mountainous Regions at Tehran University in 1999 and 2008, respectively. He has been lecturing in the Department of Watershed Management at Tarbiat Modares University since 1998. His research interests include surface hydrology, snow hydrology, geostatistical and parameter estimation with arti¤cial neural networks, adaptive neurofuzzy inference system, and several data-driven techniques. He has published many national and international scienti¤c papers and is also involved in many national watershed management projects.