EDUCATION
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sept. 2016 - Apr. 2021)
Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering (Hydrology)
Thesis Title: Soil-Plant-Atmosphere Coupling during Interstorm Periods
Advisor: Prof. Dara Entekhabi 
MIT Communication Lab Fellow
MIT Teaching + Learning Lab Kaufman Teaching Certificate 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sept. 2016 - June 2018)
M.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering (Hydrology)
Thesis Title: Multiple Scattering of Microwaves from Soil Surface and Vegetation Canopies
Advisor: Prof. Dara Entekhabi

Drexel University (Sept. 2014 - June 2016)
M.S. in Civil Engineering (Water Resources Engineering)
Thesis Title: Green Infrastructure Implementation in Urban Parks for Stormwater Management
Advisor: Prof. Franco Montalto

Drexel University (Sept. 2011 - June 2016)
B.S. in Civil Engineering (Summa Cum Laude, Honors College)

AWARDS
Lorenz G. Straub Doctoral Dissertation Award, awarded by St. Anthony Falls Hydraulic Laboratory at University of Minnesota for MIT dissertation completed in 2021

NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellowship, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, 2021-2023

Harvard University Center for the Environment Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2021-2023 (Awarded, but recipient declined)

USDA NIFA Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2021-2023 (Awarded, but recipient declined)

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
NPP Postdoctoral Fellow (July 2021 - Present)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
Postdoctoral Researcher (Bridge Position) (May 2021 - July 2021)
Graduate Research Assistant (Sept. 2016 - April 2021)
Communication Lab Fellow (Apr. 2020 - May 2021)                                                             

Drexel University 
Graduate Research Assistant (Jan. 2015 – Jan. 2016)                                                                                               

Langan Engineering and Environmental Services   (Apr. 2014 - Sept. 2014)
Site/Civil and Survey Engineering Co-op (Philadelphia, PA)                                             

Philadelphia Water Department   (Apr. 2013 - Sept. 2013)
Green Infrastructure Design Engineering Co-op (Philadelphia, PA)          

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Teaching Assistant/Recitation Lecturer  (Fall Semesters 2018, 2020)
          1.070A/B: Intro. to Hydrology, Water Resources, and Hydrologic Modeling
          1.106: Environmental Fluid Transport Processes and Hydrology Laboratory  
Kaufman Teaching Certificate Program (Spring Semester 2019)                                                                         

Drexel University                                                                                                                   
Teaching Assistant  (Fall Quarter 2012/Winter Quarter 2013)          
           CS121/122: Computer Programming Laboratory I and II 

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Journal Reviewer: Nature Plants, Nature Ecology and Evolution, Nature Communications, Remote Sensing of Environment, Geophysical Research Letters, Journal of Hydrometeorology, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, IEEE-JSTARS, EGU-HESS, International Journal of Remote Sensing, JGR-Atmospheres

Student Member, Remote Sensing Technical Committee, American Geophysical Union Hydrology Section, 2019-Present
Conference Session Chair, “Biosphere Applications of Radiometry,” MicroRAD, March 2018
Engineer In Training (EIT) for Professional Engineering License, Pennsylvania, 2016
Officer, Chi Epsilon Civil Engineering Honor Society: Drexel University Chapter, 2015-2016
Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), 2018-Present
Member, American Geophysical Union (AGU), 2017-Present
Social Committee Member, MIT Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2017-2018
Member, Drexel Engineers Without Borders, Miramar Project, 2011-2012

RELEVANT BACKGROUND/COURSEWORK
Hydrology
Surface Hydrology (MIT 1.714), Land-Atmosphere Interactions (MIT 1.S980), Water Resource Systems (MIT 1.731), Analytical and Numerical Techniques in Hydrology (Drexel ENVE681), Introduction to Hydrology (MIT 1.070 (TA); Drexel CIVE430), Groundwater Hydrology (Drexel CIVE562), Urban Hydraulics (Drexel CIVE565), Hydraulics (Drexel CIVE 330), Introduction to Fluid Flow (Drexel CIVE320), Land, Water, Food, and Climate (MIT 1.74), Groundwater Remediation (Drexel ENVE665), Watershed Analysis (Drexel CIVE567)

Probability/Statistics
Probability (MIT 6.431), Engineering Statistics (Drexel ENGR 361), Risk Assessment (Drexel ENVE727), Data Based Modeling (Drexel ENVE750), Modeling Environmental Complexity (MIT 12.586)

Ecology/Plant Physiology
Advanced Plant Physiology: Roots and Soil (Harvard OEB212r), Living Systems Resilience (MIT 1.S980)

Earth/Atmospheric Sciences
Atmospheric Dynamics (MIT 12.810), Geophysical Fluid Dynamics (Atmosphere and Ocean) (MIT 12.800), Climate Science (MIT 12.843), Geology (Drexel CAEE 211)

Remote Sensing
Physical Principles of Remote Sensing (MIT 12.621), Introductory Electromagnetic and Wave Physics (Drexel PHYS102+103)