Ehsan Jalilvand

Ehsan Jalilvand

  • Hydro-data scientist
  • Water-cycle modeler
  • Remote sensing
  • Data-driven modeling
  • Machine learning
  • Deep learning
  • AI
  • Science communicator

I’m a research scientist in the Hydrological Sciences Laboratory at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. I bring human water use, above all irrigation, into water-cycle models: I use satellite observations and machine learning to learn the decisions farmers make, and build them into NASA’s Land Information System.

Ehsan Jalilvand, smiling, outdoors among trees.

Experience

My journey: every appointment, on one timeline From Sharif University and CNR IRPI in Italy to Michigan State and NASA Goddard: what I worked on at each stop, the papers and code from it, and the skills it added. Sharif University of TechnologyCNR IRPIAmirkabir University of TechnologyMichigan State UniversityGeorgia TechNASA Goddard See my journey

More about me

Interview · NASA Goddard · July 2025Early Career Scientist Spotlight: Ehsan JalilvandMy research, how I got here, and life outside work.Read the interview ↗

Education

  • PhD, Civil Engineering (Water Resources Management)Sharif University of Technology, Tehran · 2019
  • MSc, Civil Engineering (Water Resources Management)Sharif University of Technology, Tehran · 2012
  • BSc, Civil EngineeringUniversity of Qom
  • Online MS in AnalyticsGeorgia Institute of Technology · started 2023

My studies

Water cycleMy studies on each part of the water cycle Explore SatellitesMy studies, grouped by the satellite behind each one Explore Sentinel-2 time-lapse: Annamaria Luongo, Sentinel Hub Featured study · My focus Irrigation, the largest human intervention in the water cycle Why it matters, what is missing, and my studies on where, when and how much farms irrigate, with a research library of the latest papers. Where?When?How much? Explore irrigation

Blog

Posts and interviews.

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