Curriculum Vitae

Personal Information:

Name and Surname: Hossein Lotfi

Address: *** **** ******, ********* *. Starkville, MS

Date of Birth: Jan 22, 1984

Nationality: Iranian

Gender: Male

Marital Status: Married

E-mail: adglty@r.postjobfree.com

Cellphone: +1-662-***-****

Interest and experiences:

Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) Models

Remote Sensing (RS) and GIS

Database and big data

Machine Learning.

Parallel processing

Developing web-based data processing applications

Statistical modeling

Agriculture Decision Support Systems

Education Background:

Tabriz University, Tabriz, Iran

B.Sc. in Agricultural Engineering 2003 - 2008

* Final project: Assessing the effect of light intensity on crop production.

Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran

M.Sc. in Agricultural meteorology 2009 - 2011

*Thesis Title: Estimation of surface net radiation using MODIS data.

* Seminar Title: Evaluation and calibration of GFS weather forecasting model performance over Fars Province-Iran

Mississippi State University, MS, U.S.A

PhD. in Atmospheric Science August 2018 - Present

*Thesis Title: Improving WRF near-surface simulations using real-time satellite land products and machine learning.

Jobs and Professional Experiences:

Fars Agricultural Organization, Administrator of Fars Agrometeorological Stations Network.

2013 to 2017

Developing application to automate Global Forecasting System (GFS) map projections.

Developing and designing mobile-GPS application in order to acquire fields data in Fars province.

Developing web application to manage and process Fars province Agrometeorological stations data.

Developing application in order to frost forecasting based on FAO on-farm prediction model.

Developing web-GIS to update Fars province Agricultural Cadastral database.

Workshops in training sessions in Remote Sensing and Agrometeorology.

Oceanic and Atmospheric Research Center, Shiraz University, Iran

Apr 2011 – 2015

Processing Aqua and Terra Satellite data using the NASA MODIS/AIRS Processing Packages.

Data manager

Developing web application in order to access and process MODIS products online.

Participating workshops as an instructor:

Application of GrADS (Grid Analysis and Display System) in climate data processing. Water Engineering Department, Shiraz University 40 hours -2011, 2014

ArcGIS, Water Engineering Department, Shiraz University 12 hours - 2013

DAVIS Weatherlink Application, Agricultural Organization, Fars province 6 hours- 2013

GFS (Global Forecasting System) data. Application in agriculture decision support system, Agriculture Organization, Fars province, 12 hours - 2012

ENVI (LANDSAT data processing) - Institute for Research and Training on Development of Sugarcane-Ahvaz 10 hours- 2014

GrADS, Applications in Climatology, Cheshmandaz Institute 20 hours- 2014

Matlab (spatial data processing). Agricultural Organization, Fars province 10 hours -2015

Data Mining, Zahedan University. 18 hours - 2015

ENVI (LANDSAT data processing), Salmane Farsi Agro-industry of Khoozestan 18 hours- 2015

Academic achievement and elaboration:

Instructor – University of Elmi-Karbordi, Shiraz, Iran

5 semesters 2012 – 2016

Teacher at University of Elmi-Karbordi - (Climatology courses).

Apprenticeship – Prediction Center of Fars province Meteorological Office, Shiraz, Iran.

Aug 2010 - Mar 2011

Evaluation of GFS model temperature prediction over Fars province.

Installation and setup the Weather Research Forecast (WRF) model.

TA and RA – Shiraz University, Department of Water Engineering, Shiraz University, Iran.

5 semesters 2009 – 2011

Teacher in Meteorology courses.

Computer/Model Skills

Programming and scripting skills: R, Python, GrADS (Grid Analysis and Display System).

Operation Systems: Linux, macOS, Microsoft Windows.

Databases: MySQL, SQLite.

Image processing: ENVI, ArcGIS.

Statistical software: R, Minitab, Microsoft Excel.

Big Data Frameworks and HPC systems: Spark, and Parallel Processing on the HPC systems.

Web design: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, WordPress

Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) models: WRF, RegCM4, Noah-MP land surface model.

Proficient in scientific spatial data formats: HDF4, NetCDF4, NetCDF5, GRIB, GeoTiff, Shapefile

Selected Publications:

(Conference)

Nazemosadatm, M.J., Shirvani, A. & Lotfi, H. (2011). Investigation of the relationship between Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) and Air Temperature in Asaluyeh, 2th National Convention on sustainable development, Asaluyeh-Iran, March 3-5 2011.

(Journal)

Barzin, R., Shirvani, A., & Lotfi, H. (2017). Estimation of daily average downward shortwave radiation from MODIS data using principal components regression method: Fars province case study. International Agrophysics, 31(1), 23-34.

Barzin, Razieh, et al. "Use of UAS Multispectral Imagery at Different Physiological Stages for Yield Prediction and Input Resource Optimization in Corn." Remote Sensing 12.15 (2020): 2392.

(Book)

Lotfi, H., Javizadeh, S., Saligheh, M. (2016). Application of Grad Analysis and Display System (GrADS) in Meteorology and Climate, Rasekhoon, 158,

Language(s) Proficiency:

Turkish: mother tongue

Persian: fluent

English: good

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