POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHERS
SEOKHYEON KIM
Postdoctoral Associate
Fine-scale hydraulic and hydrologic modeling of Water Conservation Area 3 and northern Everglades National Park, including canal-marsh interactions and restoration scenarios.
SAHELI MAJUMDAR
Postdoctoral Associate
South Florida groundwater flooding, saltwater intrusion, nature-based solutions, hydrologic and hydraulic modeling, and geospatial analysis.
GRADUATE STUDENTS
JYOTSANA ADHIKARI
M.S. Student and Graduate Research Assistant, Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Research: hydrology and crop modeling, environmental monitoring, GIS, and agricultural water management.
IFFAT TASNIM
Ph.D. Student, Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Research: recovery and reuse of legacy phosphorus from Lake Okeechobee sediments for sustainable agriculture and ecosystem restoration. Co-supervised by Young Gu Her and Dengjun Wang.
VISITING SCHOLARS
ZAINAB HAROON
Visiting Ph.D. Student from PMAS Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi, Pakistan
Research: water-energy-food-ecosystems connections, irrigation, energy use, and water productivity using SWAT+.
YONG-IN SON
Visiting Scholar from Korea Rural Community Corporation, Republic of Korea
Research: climate-informed precipitation and flood estimates for agricultural dam and reservoir design and management.
ALUMNI AND FORMER MEMBERS
GRADUATE ALUMNI
SATBYEOL (JOY) SHIN — Ph.D., Agricultural and Biological Engineering, UF, 2022. Postdoctoral researcher at Yonsei University, Republic of Korea.
REDJINO MOMPREMIER — M.S., Agricultural and Biological Engineering, UF, 2019. Originally from Haiti; Applied Scientist (Agricultural Systems) at Ukko Agro Inc., working on crop, disease, and irrigation modeling.
FORMER POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHERS
JUNGHUN SONG — UF Postdoctoral Associate, 2018–2022. Assistant Professor at Chungnam National University, Republic of Korea.
DONG-HYEON KIM — Former postdoctoral researcher and Visiting Research Scholar at UF. Assistant Professor at Jeonbuk National University, Republic of Korea.
FORMER VISITING SCHOLARS
MINHYUK JEUNG — Left UF in July 2026; postdoctoral researcher at Yeungnam University, Republic of Korea.
WON CHOI — Visiting Scholar at UF, 2022–2023.
HAKKWAN KIM — Visiting Research Scholar; appointment ended July 2025.
JAEHWAN JEONG — Former Visiting Research Scholar.
SYEWOON HWANG — Visiting Scholar at UF, 2022–2023.
XINYANG YU — Former Visiting Scholar; Shandong Agricultural University, China. ORCID: 0000-0003-1103-5252.
ADDITIONAL GRADUATE ADVISING
DA-YOUNG KIM — Ph.D. co-advising in Agronomy with Zachary Brym.
FATEMEH MAGHSOOD — Former Ph.D. co-advising in Agricultural and Biological Engineering and Soil and Water Sciences.
GRADUATE COMMITTEE SERVICE
Doctoral committees: Xiangcheng (Strand) Kong; Jia-Yi Ling; Seyed Abolfazl Ebrahimi; Mauricio Karrei; Seyed Mostafa Biazar Seighalani; Lory Willard; Oscar Castillo; Xue Bai; Dogil Lee; Sagarika Rath; Anne Sexton.
Master’s committees: Kallan Latham; Daniel Calzadilla; Brandon Quinn-Ivey (non-thesis).
