Dr. Babak Farjad is currently working at Alberta Environment and Parks. He served as a Post-doctoral Fellow at the University of Calgary. His work involves developing a hydrological modeling system to evaluate and predict the impacts of climate change and human activities on hydrology of the Lower Athabasca River basin in Alberta, Canada. He obtained his PhD degree in Geomatics from the University of Calgary in 2015. His research interests are data analytics, climate, and hydrology. His PhD research was developing a modeling framework to investigate the impact of climate and land use/cover change on hydrological processes in the Elbow River watershed in southern Alberta, Canada.