Sayed M. Bateni is a Professor of Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Water Resources Research Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa. His educational experience includes a Bachelor’s degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Isfahan University of Technology in 2003; a Master's degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Sharif University of Technology in 2005; a Ph.D. degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2011. His scientific career includes Lecturer and Postdoctoral Scholar, at the University of California, Los Angeles from 2011 to 2013; Assistant Professor, at the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering, the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 2013; Associate Professor, at the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering, the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 2019. His major research interests lie in investigations of Natural Hazards; Earth Remote Sensing; Land-Atmosphere Interaction; Data Assimilation; Optimization Techniques and Parameter Estimation in Hydrology; and Application of Artificial Intelligence Methods.