CW3E Welcomes Mahdi Erfani

January 16, 2024

Mahdi Erfani joined CW3E in January 2024 as a postdoctoral researcher. Mahdi earned his PhD in Water Resources Engineering from the University of South Carolina (2023). Mahdi’s doctoral dissertation focused on improving reservoir operation and water resource systems management. He investigated the application of hydro-economic modeling and machine learning in watershed and hydrological modeling and feasibility assessment of integrated watershed management approaches.

At CW3E he will work under supervision of Dr. Luca Delle Monache on development, evaluation, and application of forecast informed reservoir operations (FIRO) for reservoir sites throughout the Western United States.