Hatim M. E. Geli
Dr. Geli’s background is in Civil and Environmental Engineering. He focuses on hydrology and remote sensing applications and systems modeling. Dr. Geli’s research addresses water resources management and agricultural production challenges common to New Mexico (NM) and the western United States. His research vision is to enhance the resilience and sustainability of coupled social and environmental systems through understanding their complex interactions and response to climate change.

Fuad Ahmad
Fuad Ahmad is a committed Ph.D. student in Computer Science, specializing in Machine Learning and Data Mining with a particular focus on Large Language Models (LLMs). His research explores the intersection of intelligent systems and natural language understanding, aiming to advance the capabilities of LLMs in real-world applications.

Islam M. Omar
Islam is a Ph.D. Student in electrical and computer engineering. He joined NMSU in 2023. His research focuses on drought impacts forecasting using Machine Learning. Co-Advised by Dr. Hamid Badawy and Dr. Mona Elshinawy in the Electrical and computer engineering department.

Adiam Weldemariam
Adiams was an MS student in Water Science and Management between 2023-2025. Her research focused on assessing Historic surface and ground water depletion in Rincon valley during the period 1952-2022.

Kamini Yadav
Dr. Yadav was a postdoctoral researcher at NMSU between 2019-2021. She was working on modeling and assessment of FEWS and assessment. She is currently a researcher at the US Forest Service.

Maria Begum
Maria was an MS student in Water Science and Management. She joined NMSU in 2020. Her research  focused on assessing water footprint of major crops in New Mexico using statistical and crop growth models.

Kidane A. Amar
Kidane was an MS student in Water Science and Management. He joined NMSU in 2021. His research focused on climate change impacts on crop yield prediction using the DSSAT crop growth model.

Shahriar Rahman Dipon
Shahriar was an MS student in Computer Science. He joined NMSU in 2020. His research focused on drought impact prediction using machine learning. Co-Advised with Dr. Huiping Cao at the Computer Science department.

Ahraf J. Zaied
Dr. Zaied was a PhD student in Range Sciences between 2017 – 2021. He earned his PhD degree in 2021 and his dissertation on assessing climate change impacts on New Mexico beef cattle production systems. He is currently a faculty member at Omer Al Mokhtar University, Libya.

Melakeneh G. Gedefaw
Dr. Gedefaw was a PhD student in Water Science and Management between 2017 – 2021. He earned his Ph.D. in 2021 and his dissertation was on land use land cover change detection and assessment of New Mexico rangeland productivity. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at Northern Arizona University.