ABSTRACT
Mehdi Vafakhah received his BSc degree from the department of rangeland and watershed management at Agricultural Sciences & Natural Resources University of Gorgan, Gorgan, Iran, in 1996, and MSc and PhD degrees from the department of watershed management engineering 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, geostatistic and parameter estimation with artiŸcial neural networks, adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system, and several data-driven techniques. He has published many national and international scientiŸc papers and is also involved in many national watershed management projects.
