Biography

Zahra Heydari is a Ph.D. student in the Energy-Water-Environment Sustainability program in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Research Topics

Residential water end uses
Machine learning and data analysis

Publications

Z. Heydari and A.S. Stillwell. (2024). “Comparative Analysis of Supervised Classification Algorithms for Residential Water End Uses.” Water Resources Research, 60(6), e2023WR036690.
Z. Heydari, A. Cominola, and A.S. Stillwell. (2022). “Is smart water meter temporal resolution a limiting factor to residential water end-use classification? A quantitative experimental analysis.” Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability, 2(4), 045004.
A. Hojjat Ansari, M.A. Olyaei, and Z. Heydari. (2021). “Ensemble generation for hurricane hazard assessment along the United States’ Atlantic coast.” Coastal Engineering, 169, 103956.
M. Karamouz and Z. Heydari. (2020). “Conceptual Design Framework for Coastal Flood Best Management Practices.” Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 146(6), 04020041.

Education

M.S. in Hydraulics and Water Resources Engineering, University of Tehran, 2019
B.S. in Civil Engineering, Semnan University, 2016