Pouria Fakhrabadi

Dynamic Water Resources Engineer with a proven track record at UT Arlington and Sharif University of Technology, specializing in hydrologic and environmental analysis using advanced tools like HEC-RAS and ArcGIS. Expert in leveraging remote sensing and GIS for impactful projects. Excel in team collaboration and possess outstanding technical writing abilities.

Water Resources Planning (A), Remote Sensing (A), Stormwater modeling (A), Advanced GIS, Hydrologic and hydraulic model (A), Advanced Hydraulic (A), Advance engineering mathematics (A), Analysis & design of concrete dams (A), Marine structures (A), Water and Env. Eng. Seminar 1&2 (A), Hydraulic structures design (A), Offshore structures (A), GIS & RS (A), Finite element methods (A), Hydraulics, Hydrology, Water resources and system engineering, Water and Wastewater, Risk Management, Transportation engineering, Traffic engineering and design, Pavement engineering and design, Project and construction management, System engineering, Engineering economics, Fluid mechanics, Engineering probability and statistics

• A Study on Clean Energy Harvesting Convertor from Fluids Vortex Induced Vibrations with a Freely Suspended Oscillator, HassaniFakhrabadi, P., Raei, M., 8th International Offshore Industries Conference, Tehran, 2019
• An experimental study on harvesting vortex-induced vibrations energy using two degrees of freedom circular oscillator and piezofilm., HassaniFakhrabadi, P., Li,D., Fang, N., Raei, M., Under review
• Quantifying the Hydrologic Consequences of Tree Loss and Urbanization: A Remote Sensing and Modeling-Based Assessment of Land Cover Change and Stormwater Runoff, HassaniFakhrabadi, P., Li,D., Fang, N., Under review
• Analyzing the effects of Land Subsidence and Urbanization on Harris County flood inundation using HEC-RAS 2D modeling and Remote sensing models, HassaniFakhrabadi, P., Li,D., Fang, N., In Progress
• Quantifying the Impacts of Urbanization and Green Spaces Removal on Stormwater Runoff through Remote Sensing and Hydrological Modeling: A Case Study of the Bear Creek Watershed, HassaniFakhrabadi, P., Li, D., Fang, Z., ASCE 2025 World Environmental & Water Resources Congress, Anchorage, AK, 05/20/25
• Quantifying the Interconnected Impacts of Urbanization, Tree Removal, and Climate Change on Evapotranspiration in the Piney Woods, Texas, HassaniFakhrabadi, P., Banihashem, S. M., Li, D., Fang, Z., ASCE 2025 World Environmental & Water Resources Congress, Anchorage, AK, 05/20/25
• Impacts of Land Subsidence and Urbanization on Flood Inundation: A 2D Hydrologic/Hydraulic Modeling Study of the Brays Bayou Watershed in Houston, Texas, Fakhrabadi, P., Li, D., Fang, Z., AGU 2023 Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 12/13/23
• Investigation of the Impacts from Land Subsidence and Land Use on Urban Flooding in the Houston - Galveston Region, Fakhrabadi, P., Greenwood, K., Li, D., Fang, Z., Liu, Y., ASCE 2023 World Environmental & Water Resources Congress, Hendersen, NV, 05/22/23

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• Selected as an Outstanding PhD student at the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington
• Rank #1 among graduate students at the Department of Civil Engineering, Water Resources Management, University of Texas at Arlington
• Rank #1 among M.S students at the Department of Civil Engineering, Water and Hydraulic Structures Group
• Placed in the top 1 percentile of the National University entrance exam (M.Sc) among more than 38000 participants (2017)
• Placed in the top 1 percentile of the National University entrance exam (B.Sc) among more than 280000 participants (2011)
• Selected as Best Student in the National Physics Lab Students Competition (2009)
• Semi-finalist in National Chemistry Olympiad, Iran (2009)

• Stormwater Management
• GIS & Remote Sensing
• Flood Control & Water Quality Analysis
• Environmental Fluid Mechanics
• Machine Learning
• Asset Integrity Management
• Infrastructure Optimization
• Fluid-Structure Interaction
• Structural Health Monitoring
• Fluid & Vortex-Induced Vibrations
• Computational Fluid Dynamics
• Green Infrastructures & Ports