Kaveh Zamani , PhD, PE, PH

Dr. Zamani previously served as a Unit Chief at the California Department of Water Resources (DWR), Division of Flood Operations, where he led emergency flood response efforts as both Chief and Deputy Chief of Operations. Dr. Zamani has also worked with FEMA, multinational flood insurance firms, and in the private sector as a hydraulics and hydrology engineer, accumulating over 15 years of industry experience. Before entering public service and industry, he was a professor and research scientist at the Manly Hydraulics Laboratory in Sydney, Australia, and a Postdoctoral Fellow at UC San Diego. Dr. Zamani is a contributing member of the ASME V&V 20 Standard Committee on Verification and Validation in Computational Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer and has served on the ASCE Computational Hydraulics Committee since 2011. He has taught numerous undergraduate, graduate, and professional courses at UC Davis, McGill University, UNSW Sydney, Cal Poly, Cal State East Bay, and through ASCE. Dr. Zamani has also served as a subject matter expert in multiple legal cases involving flooding, sediment transport, scour, and river modeling.