Rocky Talchabhadel currently holds the position of Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Jackson State University, Jackson, MS. Prior to this, he spent nearly three years as a Research Scientist in El Paso, TX at Texas A&M AgriLife Research, which is affiliated with Texas A&M University. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering and his Master of Science in Water Resources Engineering from Tribhuvan University, and earned a Ph.D. at the Department of Civil and Earth Resources Engineering, Kyoto University. Subsequently, he worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher from 2017 to 2019, followed by a position as a JSPS Postdoctoral Researcher from 2019 to 2020 at the Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI), Kyoto University. He is also a General Member of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) and the European Geophysical Union (EGU). He focuses on hydrology and water resources engineering, and he is deeply engaged in conducting thorough research within these specialized domains. On a daily basis, his focus is directed toward effectively utilizing the potential of Earth Observations and Machine Learning techniques.