Ahmad A. Tavakoly 415 W. 39th Street Apt. 311 Austin, TX 78751-4932 409-466-1940 [email protected] web: https://sites.google.com/a/utexas.edu/atavakoly/ Education

PhD, Civil Engineering, August 2014 The University of Texas at Austin MS, Hydraulic Structures, June 2006 Ahwaz University, Iran BS, Irrigation and Drainage Engineering, July 2003 Ahwaz University, Iran Dissertation Flow and transport modeling in large scale river networks Supervisors: David R. Maidment and Zong-Liang Yang Develop geoprocessing web service for large scale transport modeling to advance water management systems. Develop GIS framework to assess the environmental impacts. Create GIS framework to leverage web services and various datasets. Apply high performance computing environment for large scale modeling. Couple river routing and transport models to dynamic modeling of flow and nitrogen transport in large scale river networks.

Related courses GIS in Water Resources, Surface Water Hydrology, Groundwater Pollution and Transport, Computational Environmental Fluid Mechanic, Water Resources Planning and Management, Land-Atmosphere Interaction Dynamics, Statics in Water Resources, Introductory Ocean Engineering, Open-Channel Hydraulics, Sediment Transport, Design of earth Dams, Advanced Structural Analysis Research Experience 07/13-03/14

02/13-06/13

Graduate Research Assistant, The University of Texas at Austin Project: Develop a water quality online map for San Antonio and Guadalupe basins Organization: Jointly offered by the Center for Research in Water Resources (CRWR), and the Center for Integrated Earth System Science (CIESS), the project is funded by the NASA Interdisciplinary Science Project Responsibilities: Consider the effect of reservoirs on nitrogen transport in Texas. Publish GIS map online: http://bit.ly/15xCy3g Intern engineer, Ecole des Mines de Paris, France Project: Flow and nitrogen modeling in the Paris basin considering in-streambiogeochemical processes Organization: Jointly offered by the Center for Research in Water Resources (CRWR), and MinesParis Tech Responsibilities: create Geo database for Seine basin and include river morphology data, reservoir data, waste water treatment data, and hydraulic structures data

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08/12-01/13

Graduate Research Assistant, The University of Texas at Austin Project: Develop a GIS framework for the steady state flow and transport modeling for Texas Organization: Jointly offered by the Center for Research in Water Resources (CRWR), and the Center for Integrated Earth System Science (CIESS), the project is funded by the NASA Interdisciplinary Science Project Responsibilities: Integrate a GIS-based dataset and modeling within GIS to simulate steady-state riverine nitrogen transport and chemical reactions in river networks

01/11-07/12

Graduate Research Assistant, The University of Texas at Austin Project: River Routing for the Mississippi River Basin Organization: Jointly offered by the Center for Research in Water Resources (CRWR), and the Center for Integrated Earth System Science (CIESS), the project is funded by the NASA Interdisciplinary Science Project Responsibilities: Validated the performance of storing, querying, and retrieving various web services by applying Network Common Data Form to better support of continental-scale river modeling Modeled river flow over the Mississippi Basin based on the vector and grid river networks using high performance computing Created river network and up-scaling river catchments using NHDPlus dataset

01/10 – 05/10

Team Lead, Groundwater Pollution and Transport Project: Old Radioactive Waste Burial Ground Modflow modeling Responsibilities: Calibrated the Modflow model using given tritium flux data Generated the river package and general head boundary package in Modview Modeled the transport of tritium leached from Old Radioactive Waste Burial Ground.

Teaching Experience 08/08 – 12/10

Professional Experience 03/14-Present

Teaching Assistant, The University of Texas at Austin Course: Element of hydraulic course Responsibilities: Organized and lead more than fifty students each semester Taught five laboratory sections covering: Pipe Networks, Pumps, Weirs, Hydraulic Jumps, and Gradually Varied Flow Lectured classes as required by professor

Engineering Specialist IV, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality Responsibilities: Reviews water/sewer tariff changes, Certificates of Convenience and Necessity (CCN), utility rate applications, depreciation schedules and, rate designs. Make recommendations on utility plant in service and rate designs to ensure customers are charged just and reasonable rates. Provides technical assistance and rule interpretations to the public related to utility systems and technical data/information.

08/06 – 07/08

Hydraulic Engineer, Soil and Water Consulting Engineers Simulated unsteady flow and analyzed data including river flow and water quality. Studied and designed pump stations.

04/06 – 07/06

Intern engineer, Khuzestan Water and Power Association

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Experience with High performance computing environment Operation systems: Windows, UNIX Technical computing platforms: Maple, MathCad, Neural Network Software: Microsoft Office, ArcGIS, Modflow, Hec-Ras, Hec-Hms, Hec-ResSim, HecDSS Programming experience in FORTRAN and python Strong communication skills-oral, written, and presentation Excellent team skills

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Recipient, Professional Development Award, The University of Texas At Austin, 2012 Recipient, Walter L. and Reta Mae Moore Graduate Fellowship in Water Resources, The University of Texas at Austin, 2008-09 Recipient, travel grant for Doctoral Consortium as part of the 2nd International Conference on Computational Sustainability, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA, June 2830, 2010 An outstanding graduate student in 2007, Ahvaz University

Publications 1. Tavakoly, Ahmad A., et.al., " Modeling interactions of agriculture and groundwater nitrate contaminant: The STICS–Eau-Dyssée coupled models applied over the Seine basin ", (in preparation) 2. Tavakoly, Ahmad A., et.al., "GIS-based modeling approach to estimate nitrogen loading and load reduction in lakes/ reservoirs with application to the San Antonio and Guadalupe basins", (in preparation) 3. Tavakoly, Ahmad A., Cédric H. David, Zong-Liang Yang, David R. Maidment and Xitian Cai, River routing for the Mississippi River Basin using and grid- and vectorbased river networks, (in preparation).

4. Tavakoly, Ahmad A., Cédric H. David, David R. Maidment and Zong-Liang Yang, An Upscaling Process for Large-scale Vector-based River Networks Using the NHDPlus Dataset, Proceedings of the American Water Resources Association Spring Specialty Conference on Geographic Information Systems and Water Resources, March 2012. 5. Tavakoly, Ahmad A., and S., Kashefipour, “Modeling Local Scour on Loose Bed Downstream of Grade-Control Structures Using Artificial Neural network”, Journal of Applied Science, 8(11): 2067-2074, 2008 (ISI Journal).

6. Kashefipour, S., Ahmad A. Tavakoly, “Hydrodynamic and Water Quality FASTER Model and its Application in River Engineering”, Journal of Iran-Water Resources Research, 3(9): 56-68, 2008 (in Persian). 7. Kashefipour, S., Ahmad A. Tavakoly, and R.A. Falconer, “Water Quality Modeling by Numerical Solution of ADE Using An Integrated Model”, Asian Journal of Water, Environment and Pollution, 4(2): 11-15, July 2007.

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Presentations 1. Tavakoly Ahmad A., David R Maidment, Zong-Liang Yang, Tim Whiteaker, Cedric H. David, Stephanie Johnson, "A GIS Tool for simulating Nitrogen transport along schematic", AGU Fall meeting, 2012, San Francisco, CA, 3-7 December 2012. 2. Tavakoly, Ahmad A., Cédric H. David, Yaakoub El Khamra, David R. Maidment, and Zong-Liang Yang, “Investigation of Parallel Scalability and Speedup for Computation of Stream Flow River Networks Made Out of Hundreds of Thousands of Reaches”, Computational Method in Water Resources, XIX International Conference, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, June 17-21, 2012. 3. Tavakoly, Ahmad A., Cédric H. David, Xitian Cai, Zong-Liang Yang, and David R. Maidment, “River Routing for the Mississippi River Basin using Grid and Vector Based River Networks”, World Climate research Programme-Open Science Conference, Denver, CO, October 24-28, 2011. 4. Tavakoly, Ahamd A., Xitian Cai, Cédric H. David, David R. Maidment, and ZongLiang Yang, Land surface hydrology and river modeling for the Mississippi River Basin using NLDAS2 data (poster, invited workshop participant), Community Hydrologic Modeling Project (CHyMP) Implementation Workshop, Irvine, CA, March 16, 2011 5. Tavakoly, Ahamd A., Ben R. Hodges, David Maidment, Frank Liu, Sani Nassif and Kevin Nowka “New Modeling Approach for Continental River Dynamics ”, Doctoral Consortium at CompSust'10: 2nd International Conference on Computational Sustainability, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA, June 28-30, 2010 6. Tavakoly, Ahamd A., and S.M., Kashefipour, “Statistical analysis for determining of dominant discharge for estimating sediment transport capacity in rivers”, The 2nd International Conference on Managing Rivers in the 21st Century: Solutions Towards Sustainable River Basin., Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia, June 6-8, 2007. 7. Tavakoly, Ahamd A., S.M., Kashefipour, “Effect of Dispersion Coefficient in Surface Water Quality Modeling”, 7th Intentional River Engineering Conference (7IREC), Ahvaz, IRAN, Feb 13-15, 2007. 8. Tavakoly, Ahamd A., S.M., Kashefipour, and M., Zarshenas, “Numerical Hydrodynamic Modeling of 1D flow and Compare with MIKE11 Model ”, 7th Intentional River Engineering Conference(7IREC), Ahvaz, IRAN, Feb 13-15 2007. Affiliations and Licensure   

Passed FX Exam, October 2010 Member, American Geophysical Union, 2011 Member, American Society of Civil Engineering, 2012

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Helped to coordinate the Water Forum Symposium: Texas Drought 2012 School of Geoscience Representative for the 93rd American Meteorological Society

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Employability Status: US Citizenship