Isa EbtehajIsa Ebtehaj is a PhD student in the Soil and Environment department at the Faculty of Agriculture and Food Science, Laval University, Canada. He obtained his MSc degree from Razi University in 2014 and his MSc thesis was nominated as the best thesis y the Iranian Water and Wastewater Engineering Association, the Iranian Hydraulic Association, and the Vice-Presidency for Science and Technology (Iran). His fields of specialization and interest include machine learning, development of hybrid model methods, evolutionary optimization, hydrological time series, and sediment transport. From 2014 to 2019, he participated as a researcher in several industrial research projects through the Water and Wastewater Research Center and the Environmental Research Center, Razi University. Results obtained from his research studies have been published in more than 100 papers in international journals. He also has more than 30 presentations at national and international conferences and has published eight book chapters. Read More Read Less