Prof. Hamid Moradkhani joined The University of Alabama in January 2018 as Alton N. Scott Endowed Chair in the Department of civil, construction, and environmental engineering. Also, he is the founding director of the Center for Complex Hydrosystems Research comprising faculties and students across civil and environmental engineering, computer science, geography, mathematics, geology, and business school. Prior to this appointment, he was a professor and director of the Water Resources and Remote Sensing Lab in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Portland State University. Moradkhani is a pioneer in developing methods in data assimilation, machine learning, uncertainty quantification, risk analysis, and harnessing data revolution, used in earth system science, engineering, and other disciplines. He received a B.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Tabriz in 1991, a M.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Science and Technology in 1994, and a Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of California, Irvine in 2004. His research has addressed the grand challenges faced by water resources managers, stakeholders, and emergency managers as to how to be sure there is enough water to meet demands and protect the livelihood and properties against extreme events as populations swell and weather patterns shift due to changing climate.