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Sajad Vahedizade (PhD, 2019-present)
Microwave remote sensing of high-latitude precipitation.

Reyhaneh Rahimi (PhD, 2020-present)
Deep learning and precipitation nowcasting.

Divya Kumawat (PhD, 2021-present)
Passive microwave microwave remote sensing of soil moisture and snowpack.

Mohammad Ali Olyaie (PhD, 2021-present)
Experimental and theoretical remote sensing of environmental contaminants and plastics.

Hyoungseok Kang (PhD, 2022-present)
Precipitation forecasts, data assimilation and deep learning.

Lun Gao (PhD, 2022)
Postdoctoral fellow at UIUC
Passive microwave remote sensing of soil moisture and vegetation water content.
Alumni

Sagar Tamang (PhD, 2022)
Senior data scientist at Target
Data Assimilation over the Wasserstein space.

Zeinab Takbiri (PhD, 2018)
Senior Data Scientist at Facebook
Land-atmosphere remote sensing, satellite hydrology, inundation and precipitation microwave retrievals.

Morteza Sadeghi (Research Scientist, 2020)
California Department of Water Resources
Soil physics and hydrology, fundamentals of mass and energy transfer in the vadose zone, physically-based hydrologic and remote sensing models.

Brady Halvorson
Undergraduate summer training -- Land-atmosphere interactions using Weather Research Forecasting (WRF) model.
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