Prof. Dr. Rabin Bhattarai currently serves as an Associate Professor at the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received his bachelor's degree from Tribhuvan University, Nepal in 2002, his master's degree from the Asian Institute of Technology in 2005, and his doctorate from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2011. From September 2011 to July 2012, Prof. Dr. Rabin Bhattarai was a postdoctoral fellow at North Carolina State University. Since August 2012, he has been working at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Prof. Dr. Rabin Bhattarai has received the Ben and George Anne Jones Distinguished Teaching Award (2019) and the J.K. Mitchell Distinguished Teaching Award (2018). He discovers innovative ways to clean polluted waters. He uses laboratory and field experiments, along with computer simulation models, to study how various factors impact water quality. His Research Interests include Climate-Water-Food Nexus Modeling, Erosion and Sediment Control, and Nonpoint Source Pollution and Water Quality.