Masoud Asadzadeh, PhD
Assistant Professor

Research Interests

  • Watershed Modelling
  • Model Calibration
  • River-Reservoir System Analysis and Optimal Operation Design
  • Water Distribution System Analysis and Optimal Design
  • Heuristic Optimization Algorithm Development and Testing
  • High Performance Computing and its Application in Water Resources Engineering

    • Research Experience

  • Post-Doctoral Fellow, Canadian Centre for Inland Waters (CCIW), Environment Canada
    • GLAP-V: Modeling watershed-derived nutrient loads for Lake Ontario Inflows Considering Typical Land Operations in Southern Ontario
  • Research Assistant, University of Waterloo
    • Developed Pareto Archived Dynamically Dimensioned Search (PA-DDS) multi-objective optimization algorithm, see the Software page
    Developed Hybrid Discrete DDS (HD-DDS) for water distribution network design problems, see the Software page
    Contributed to the research project that studied the feasibility of restoring Lakes Michigan and Huron surface elevation
    Contributed to the research project that studied the optimal operation of Lake Superior
    Contributed to the research project that studied the optimal multi-lake regulation of the Great Lakes - St Lawrence river-reservoir system

    Reviewer for Peer-Reviewed Journals

  • Water Resources Research
  • Environmental Modelling & Software
  • Journal of Great Lakes Research
  • ASCE Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management
  • ASCE Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering
  • Journal of Hydroinformatics
  • Environmental Modelling & Assessment
  • Advances in Artificial Intelligence