About

Dr. Vidya Samadi is an Assistant Professor and Director of the Hydrosystem and Hydroinformatics Research (HHR) group at Clemson Department of Agricultural Sciences. Her research focuses on leveraging advances in hydroinformatics and cyber-physical systems to address challenges associated with water resources modeling systems. Prior to joining Clemson University in the spring of 2020, Dr. Samadi was a Research Assistant Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of South Carolina (UofSC) and a Postdoctoral Scholar with the NOAA Center for the Carolina Integrated Sciences and Assessments (CISA-UofSC). She was also a Postdoc in Civil Engineering at the Hydro-environmental Research Center, School of Engineering, Cardiff University, United Kingdom. Her research is funded by the US National Science Foundation, the US Geological Survey, Savannah River National Lab, NOAA, the US Department of Agriculture, and the South Carolina Department of Transportation. Dr. Samadi is the founder of the “WomeninAI4Water” initiative that educates and strengthens the diversity of female representation and participation in AI for water science and engineering.

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Scientist/Researcher/Academic

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Universities and Academia

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Her research focuses on leveraging advances in hydroinformatics and cyber-physical systems to address challenges associated with water resources modeling systems.

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