Personnel

Marcela Rojas Oliveras

Marcela Rojas Oliveros

Title/Position
Design Engineer
Marcela Rojas Oliveros is a design engineer at the Iowa Flood Center. She works to develop rating curves for bridge sensors at many locations on rivers in Iowa as part of a project with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Muhammed Sermet

Yusuf Sermet

Title/Position
Assistant Research Scientist
Yusuf Sermet is an assistant research scientist at the Iowa Flood Center. His research focuses broadly on artificial intelligence, natural language processing, big data science, data mining, scientific visualization, citizen science, camera-based sensors, augmented and virtual reality, GPGPU, and web-based development.
Breanna Shea

Breanna Shea

Title/Position
Program Manager for Communications & Outreach
Breanna Shea is a program manager at the Iowa Flood Center. She develops and implements communications and outreach programs for IFC projects.
Soheyla Tofighi

Soheyla Tofighi

Title/Position
Graduate Research Assistant
Soheyla Tofighi is a graduate research assistant at the Iowa Flood Center.
Humberto Vergara

Humberto Vergara Arrieta, PhD

Title/Position
Faculty Research Engineer
Dr. Vergara is a faculty research engineer at the Iowa Flood Center providing expertise in hydrologic modeling with a focus on river-flood and flash-flood forecasting.
Portrait of Larry Weber

Larry Weber, PhD

Title/Position
Director, IIHR—Hydroscience and Engineering
Interim Director, Iowa Flood Center
Director, Center for Hydrologic Development
Larry Weber is the IIHR director, a professor of civil and environmental engineering, and the Edwin B. Green Chair in Hydraulics. With Director Witold Krajewski, he helped create the IFC and continues to be active in its development through work with the Iowa Legislature
Kaleb Young

Kaleb Young

Title/Position
Graduate Research Assistant
Kaleb Young is a graduate research assistant at the Iowa Flood Center.
Nate Young

Nate Young

Title/Position
Associate Director, Iowa Flood Center
Nate Young is associate director of the Iowa Flood Center and a research engineer at IIHR—Hydroscience and Engineering.
Laura Zepeski

Laura Zepeski

Title/Position
Graduate Research Assistant
Laura Zepeski is a graduate research assistant at the Iowa Flood Center.