SAEED FARZIN received a B.S. degree in civil engineering from Persian Gulf University, Bushehr, Iran, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in civil engineering from Tabriz University, Tabriz, Iran. He is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Water Engineering and Hydraulic Structure, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Semnan University, Semnan, Iran. His current research interests include hydrology, hydraulics, water resources, engineering, hydroinformatics, optimization, metaheuristic algorithms, and artificial intelligence.