Meet Our People

Steve J. Burian, Ph.D., PE

Executive Director of CIROH
Professor of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering

Sagy Cohen, Ph.D.

Deputy Director
Professor of Geography

Amanda Blair, MPA

Research Project Manager

Charity Mccalpin

Research Project Coordinator

Stefanie O’Neill

Director of Finance and Human Resources

Shannon Price

Grants and Contracts Specialist

Natalie Lau

Grants and Contracts Accountant

Zach Krauss, M.S.

Director of Research to Operations Communications

Lanna Nations

Director of Education & Outreach

Brock Parker, M.A.

Multimedia Specialist & Writer

Kayla Roberson

Communications Intern

Steve J. Burian, Ph.D., PE

Executive Director of CIROH
Professor of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering

Sagy Cohen, Ph.D.

Deputy Director
Professor of Geography

Matt Womble

AWI Executive Director

Tom Graziano, Ph.D.

Director, Office of Water Prediction

Ed Clark

Director, National Water Center

Fred Ogden

Chief Scientist, Office of Water Prediction

Tom Graziano, Ph.D.

Technical Program Manager
Director, Office of Water Prediction

Sam Contorno

Federal Program Officer

James Halgren, Ph.D.

Research Engineer

Benjamin Lee, M.S.

Research Engineer

Sepehr Karimiziarani, Ph.D.

Research Software Engineer

Ryan Johnson, Ph.D.

AI Research Scientist

Arpita Patel

DevOps Manager & Enterprise Architect

Juzer Dhondia

Physical Scientist

Dong Ha Kim, Ph.D.

Physical Scientist

Xia Feng

Physical Scientist

Camaron George

Physical Scientist

Rich Gibbs

Geospatial Scientist

Alemayehu Midekisa

Geospatial Scientist

Dina Sang

Physical Scientist

Md Shahabul Alam, Ph.D.

Research Scientist

JunHo Song, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Researcher