Ali Reza Shahvaran
I am a PhD student in civil engineering at the University of Toronto, and I work on hydrologic and hydraulic modelling, remote sensing of water quality and machine learning.
The river with my name in the water is an illustration made for this page, and it is not a result of one of my models.
Research
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Satellite remote sensing of chlorophyll-a and water quality in Lake Ontario
- Multi-Source Assessment of Machine Learning Models and Atmospheric Correction Products for Chlorophyll-a Retrieval in Meso-Eutrophic Waters: Application to Hamilton Harbour, an Area of Concern in Lake Ontario, Canada IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2026
- Mapping satellite-derived chlorophyll-a concentrations from 2013 to 2023 in Western Lake Ontario using Landsat 8 and 9 imagery Science of the Total Environment, 2025
- Comparative Evaluation of Semi-Empirical Approaches to Retrieve Satellite-Derived Chlorophyll-a Concentrations from Nearshore and Offshore Waters of a Large Lake (Lake Ontario) Remote Sensing, 2024
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Machine learning for water quality estimation and prediction
- Multi-Source Assessment of Machine Learning Models and Atmospheric Correction Products for Chlorophyll-a Retrieval in Meso-Eutrophic Waters: Application to Hamilton Harbour, an Area of Concern in Lake Ontario, Canada IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2026
- Linking Hypolimnion to Epilimnion in a Stratified Arctic Lake: Machine Learning-Based Estimation of Hypolimnetic Water Quality from Epilimnetic Measurements Water Research, 2026
- Beyond conventional modeling: A cutting-edge hybrid IAER-AMT decision-tree-based algorithm for high-resolution river turbidity prediction Ain Shams Engineering Journal, 2025
- Assessment of environmental and socioeconomic drivers of urban stormwater microplastics using machine learning Scientific Reports, 2025
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Microplastics and phosphorus in urban stormwater
- Yields and Stormwater Loads of Microplastics in Five Urban Stormwater Catchments (City of Kitchener, Ontario, Canada) Water Research, 2026
- Phosphorus in urban stormwater runoff: a review of sources, transport pathways, and control solutions Environmental Reviews, 2026
- Assessment of environmental and socioeconomic drivers of urban stormwater microplastics using machine learning Scientific Reports, 2025
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Wildfire susceptibility and risk across Canada from satellite data and artificial intelligence
- Mapping potential recurring risk of wildfire across Canada using artificial intelligence: implications for human populations and tree species Expert Systems with Applications, 2026
- Assessing Pan-Canada wildfire susceptibility by integrating satellite data with novel hybrid deep learning and black widow optimizer algorithms Science of The Total Environment, 2025
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Remote sensing and GIS for water resources assessment
- A web GIS based integrated water resources assessment tool for Javeh Reservoir Expert Systems with Applications, 2024
- Selecting potential locations for groundwater recharge by means of remote sensing and GIS and weighting based on Boolean logic and analytic hierarchy process Environmental Earth Sciences, 2022
On this site
- AboutMy education and positions since 2014, from a BSc at Persian Gulf University to the PhD in Toronto.
- PublicationsBy 10 November 2026 I had co-authored 14 journal papers.
- ProjectsA course project on a 2D flood model of the lower Humber River in HEC-RAS.
- ContactMy e-mail address and my GitHub, LinkedIn, ORCID and Google Scholar pages.