Team

Principal Investigator

Noemi Vergopolan

Noemi Vergopolan

Assistant Professor of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences

Graduate Students

PhD Student

Adnan Dehghani

Adnan Dehghani

PhD Student

Rice University

Research areas

Physics-Informed Machine Learning, Geospatial Data Science, Computational Hydrology, High-Performance Computing

Education

  • Ph.D. in Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences (in progress) Rice University
  • M.S. in Mechanical Engineering Iran University of Science and Technology, 2021
  • B.S. in Mechanical Engineering Isfahan University of Technology, 2017

PhD Student

Hillson Ghimire

Hillson Ghimire

PhD Student

Rice University

Education

  • Ph.D. in Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences (in progress) Rice University
  • M.S. in Geography, Geographic Information Science Specialization South Dakota State University
  • B.S. in Geomatics Engineering Tribhuvan University

M.S. Student

Nathan Chou

Nathan Chou

M.S. Student

Rice University

Education

  • M.S. in Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences (in progress) Rice University
  • B.S. in Computer Science, minor in Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences Rice University, 2025

PhD Student

Shinhye Han

Shinhye Han

PhD Student

Rice University

Research areas

Soil Moisture, Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), Artificial Intelligence, Foundation Models, Numerical Modeling, Remote Sensing

Education

  • Ph.D. in Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences (in progress) Rice University
  • M.S. in Artificial Intelligence Seoul National University, 2024
  • B.S. in Environmental Engineering and Computer Engineering Ewha Womans University, 2022

Alumni

  • Undergrad 2025, now PhD at Caltech.

    Caroline Hashimoto

    Undergrad 2025, now PhD at Caltech.

    Rice University

Join Us

Prospective PhD students and postdocs keen on contributing to computational hydrology and remote sensing are encouraged to apply. See the open positions and requirements.