Faculty Directory

Background

• 2025 - present, Assistant Professor, Department of Fire Protection Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.
• 2025 - present, Affiliate Assistant Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.
• 2025 - present, Affiliate Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.
• 2021 - present, Research Faculty, NSF-IUCRC Wildfire Interdisciplinary Research Center (WIRC), USA.
• 2020 - 2024, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, San Jose State University, CA, USA.

Education

• 2016, Ph.D., Civil Engineering, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, USA.
• 2011, M.S., Civil Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.
• 2009, B.S., Civil Engineering, IAU Central Tehran Branch, Tehran, Iran.

• Fire and Fluid Dynamics
• Wildfire Behavior and Impacts Modeling
• Data-Driven and Scientific Machine Learning
• High-Performance Scientific Computing

• ENFP 415/651, Fire Dynamics

An updated list of all publications is accessible on Google Scholar.