Mohammad Najafzadeh is an associate professor at the Department of Water Engineering, Faculty of Civil and Surveying Engineering, at the Graduate University of Advanced Technology. He has more than 15 years of professional experience researching sediment transport in ocean and coastal environments, with a focus on scouring at bridge piers, and surface water and groundwater quality using machine learning, remote sensing, and GIS. He has collaborated on numerous international research projects and was selected as Reviewer of the Year in 2019 for the International Water Association's (IWA) Journal of Water Science and Technology. He currently serves on the editorial board of four journals including ASCE's Journal of Pipeline System Engineering and Practice, Elsevier's Ocean Engineering, Springer's Earth Science Informatics, and Taylor & Francis' Marine Georesources and Geotechnology.