Email address: mdr425@lehigh.edu

Rafy is a PhD student in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Lehigh University, working in the Wonders of Water Lab under Dr. Hong-Yi Li. His research focuses on understanding how hydrologic models represent the physical processes that generate streamflow and flooding and inferring their controlling factors, using a combination of physics-based reasoning and machine learning to build more trustworthy models for water resource and hazard prediction.