Dr. Mehdi Khaki is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Newcastle, Australia. After finishing his study on the application of satellite remote sensing in hydrology and geodesy during his MSc at the University of Tehran in 2014, he started his Ph.D. at Curtin University from 2015 to 2018, focusing on integrating satellite data products with hydrological models using advanced statistical methods. During and after his Ph.D.,  he has mainly worked in the field of satellite data assimilation. He has developed data assimilation techniques for integrating multiple satellite-derived measurements. He has been awarded Curtin International Postgraduate Research Scholarships (CIPRS) in 2015 at the Curtin University, Western Australia Asia-Pacific Spatial Excellence Awards (APSEA-WA) in 2019  and ASIA-PACIFIC Spatial Excellence Awards in 2020 at The Surveying & Spatial Sciences Institute (SSSI). His main research areas include Data assimilation, Geodesy, Satellite remote sensing, etc.