Arastou Zarei earned his B.Eng. degree in Surveying and Geomatics Engineering, in 2017. He continued his academic journey, obtaining an M.Eng. degree in remote sensing from the College of Engineering at the University of Tehran, Iran, in 2021. He is passionate about multitemporal remote sensing data analysis, environmental science, and computational intelligence. Arastou's research focuses on soil salinity mapping using satellite observations, artificial and machine learning (ML) methods.