Sayed M. Bateni
Professor of Civil, Environmental and Construction Engineering
Office: Holmes Hall 342
Phone: (808) 956-4249
E-mail:smbateni@hawaii.edu
Areas of Specialty and Research Interest
- Earth Remote Sensing
- Land-Atmosphere Interaction
- Data Assimilation: Techniques, Development and Applications
- Optimization Techniques and Parameter Estimation in Hydrology
- Application of Artificial Intelligence Methods
Education
- Ph.D., Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011
- M.S., Civil and Environmental Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, 2005
- B.S., Civil and Environmental Engineering, Isfahan University of Technology, 2003
Experience
- Professor, Department of Civil, Environmental and Construction Engineering, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2023
- Associate Professor, Department of Civil, Environmental and Construction Engineering, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2019
- Assistant Professor, Department of Civil, Environmental and Consruction Engineering, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2013
- Lecturer and Postdoctoral Scholar, University of California, Los Angeles, 2011-2013
Courses Taught ( in the last five years )
- CEE 320 Fluid Mechanics Fundamentals (F’15, F’17, F’18, F’19)
- CEE 422 Environmental Fluid Mechanics
- CEE 421 Engineering Hydraulics (S’18, S’19, S’20)
- CEE 424 Applied Hydrology (S’15, F’16)
- CEE 431 Water and Wastewater Engineering (F’13)
- CEE 499 Special Problems (S’15)
- CEE 626 Surface Water Hydrology (S’16)
- CEE 691 Seminar in Civil and Environmental Engineering (S’16)
- CEE 696 Selected Topics in Civil and Environmental Engineering (S’17, S’19)
Professional Activities
- Member of American Geophyisical Union.
- Member of IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society.
Awards
- Graduate Study Scholarship, MIT (Academic years 2006-2010).
- F.S Chia Recruitment Ph.D Fellowship, Canada (2005)
- DAAD Ph.D Fellowship, Germany (2005)
- Overseas Research Students (ORS) Ph.D Award, England (2005)
- Silver Medal of Physics Olympid (1998)
Selected Publications
- Emamgholizadeh, S., Bateni, S. M., and Jeng, D. S., Artificial intelligence-based estimation of half-cone geometry, Engineering Application of Artificial Intelligence, In press.
- Bateni, S. M., Entekhabi, D., Margulis, S., Castelli, F., and Kergoat, L. Coupled estimation of surface heat fluxes and vegetation dynamics from remotely sensed land surface temperature and fraction of photosynthetically active radiationtion, Water Resource Research, In revision.
- Bateni, S. M., Margulis, S. A., Podest, E., and McDonald, K., Characterizing snowpack and the freeze-thaw state of underlying soil via assimilation of multifrequency passive/active microwave data: A case study (NASA CLPX 2003),
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, In revision. - Bateni, S. M., Entekhabi, D., and Castelli, F., Mapping evaporation and estimation of surface control of evaporation using remotely sensed land surface temperature from a constellation of satellites, Water Resource Research, 49, 1-19 (2013).
- Bateni, S. M., Entekhabi, D., and Jeng, D. S., Variational assimilation of land surface temperature and the estimation of surface energy balance components, Journal of Hydrology, 481, 143-156 (2013).
- Bateni, S. M., Margulis, S. A., Podest, E., and McDonald, K., Feasibility of characterizing snowpack and the freeze-thaw state of underlying soil using multifrequency active/passive microwave measurements, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 51(8), (2013).
- Bateni, S. M., and Liang, S., Estimating surface energy fluxes using a dual-source data assimilation approach adjoined to the heat diusion equation, Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmosphere, 117, D17118 (2012).
- Bateni, S. M., and Entekhabi, D., Surface heat flux estimation with the ensemble Kalman smoother: joint estimation of state and parameters, Water Resource Research, 48, W08521 (2012).
- Bateni, S. M., and Entekhabi, D., Relative efficiency of land surface energy balance components, Water Resource Research, 48, W04510 (2012).
- Bateni, S. M., Jeng D. S, and Mortazavi S. M., Estimating soil thermal properties from sequences of land surface temperature using hybrid genetic algorithm-finite difference method, Engineering Application of Artificial Intelligence, 25,1425-1436, (2012).
- Bateni, S. M., and Yazdandoost, F. Hydraulics of B-F and F jumps in adverse slope stilling basins. Journal of Water Management, 162(5), 321-327, (2010).
- Yazdandoost, F., Bateni, S. M., and Fazeli, M. B-Jump: Roller length, sequent depth, and relative energy loss using artificial neural networks. Journal of Hydraulic Research, 45, 529-537, (2007).
- Bateni, S. M., and Jeng, D. S. Estimation of pile group scour using adaptive neuro-fuzzy approach. Ocean Engineering, 34(8-9), 1344-1354, (2007).
- Shamsai, A., Paak, A., and Bateni, S. M., Geotechnical characteristics of copper mine tailings: A case study. Geotechnical and Geological Engineering. 25(5), 591-602, (2007).
- Bateni, S. M., Borghei, S. M., and Jeng, D. S. Neural network and neuro-fuzzy assessments for scour depth around bridge piers. Engineering Application of Artificial Intelligence, 20, 401-414, (2007).
- Bateni, S. M., Jeng, D. S., and Melville, B. W. Bayesian neural networks for prediction of equilibrium and time-dependent scour depth around bridge piers. Advances in Engineering Software, 38(2), 102-111, (2007).