Education
Emphasis in Data Science
Ph.D. Geochemistry
B.S. Geosciences
Biography
Mustafa Rezaei is a Ph.D. student in Data Science at Boise State University, where his NSF-funded research develops data-driven methods for restoring wildfire-damaged, water-repellent soils.
He combines controlled laboratory experimentation with machine learning and process-based hydrologic modeling, using experimental data to train and constrain predictive models of soil water repellency and infiltration.
Trained originally in geochemistry, he now works at the intersection of physics-based modeling and machine learning, with particular interest in hybrid approaches that embed physical constraints into learned models of environmental systems.