Vida Atashi received her Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, with a specialization in Water Resources Engineering, from the University of North Dakota in 2023. She worked as a Teaching Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of North Dakota from 2023 to 2026. In 2026, she joined Ohio Northern University as a faculty member in Civil Engineering. Her research interests include hydrology and hydraulics, flood routing, cold-region hydrology, machine learning applications in water resources, remote sensing, flood-risk assessment, and aquatic-organism passage at road–stream crossings.