Kamran Chapi

Introduction

Dr. Kamran Chapi was born in 1971/03/27 in Mahabad, a Kurdish city at West Azarbaijan province, Iran. He received his B.Sc. degree in Rangeland and Watershed Management from University of Tehran, Iran in 1995. He obtained rank 1 in M.Sc. entrance exam in the country in Watershed Engineering in 1995 and as a scholarship student entered Tarbiat Modarres University, Tehran, Iran. After graduation from M.Sc. in 1998, he joined the University of Kurdistan as a lecturer. Dr. Chapi received a government scholarship in 2004 to do his Ph.D in Water Resources Engineering at the University of Guelph, Canada and graduated in 2009. He is currently an associate professor at the Faculty of Natural Resources, University of Kurdistan, Sanandaj, Iran, teaching hydrology and hydraulic courses. His research interests include hydrological modeling, spatial prediction models for environmental disasters such as floods, landslides and droughts, river engineering, and integrated watershed management.

Education

BSc. in Rangeland and Watershed Management , University of Tehran , Iran (1990 - 1995)
Thesis title: Elementary Rangeland and Watershed Management Project for Joestan-Gatehdeh (Taleghan Region)
MSc. in Watershed Engineering , Tarbiat Modarres University , IRAN (1995 - 1998)
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PhD. in Water Resources Engineering and Watershed Management , University of Guelph , CANADA (2004 - 2009)
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Courses

Bachelor Of Science

Identification and Management of Environmental Crisis

General Hydraulics

Technical English Language

Applied Hydrology

General Hydrology

Master Of Science

River and Sediment Hydraulics

Eco-Hydrology

Floodplain Management

Flood Forecasting and Early Warning Models

Water Quality

River Engineering

Flood Management and Control

Hydrological Models

Research Methodology

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Research activities

Journal Papers

Fuzzy flash flood risk and vulnerability assessment for the city of Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province, Iran salman Ahmadi, Hazhir Amjadi, Kamran Chapi, Reza Soodmand Afshar, Baha Ebrahimi (2023)

Influence of structural lineaments on drainage morphometry in Qorveh-Dehgolan basin, Kurdistan, Iran Payam Sajadi, Amit Singh, Saumitra Mukherjee, Kamran Chapi (2020)

Comparison of Support Vector Machine, Bayesian Logistic Regression, and Alternating Decision Tree Algorithms for Shallow Landslide Susceptibility Mapping along a Mountainous Road in the West of Iran Viet-Ha Nhu, Danesh Zandi, Himan Shahabi, Kamran Chapi, Ataollah Shirzadi, Hoang Nguyen, Jie Dou, Sushant K. Singh, Nadhir Al-Ansari (2020)

Risk assessment of water resources pollution from transporting of oil hazardous materials (Sanandaj-Marivan road, Kurdistan Province, Iran) Baha Ebrahimi, salman Ahmadi, Kamran Chapi, Hazhir Amjadi (2020)

Effects of Inter-Basin Water Transfer on Water Flow Condition of Destination Basin DieuTien Bui, Davod Talebpur Asl, Ezatollah Qanavati, Nadhir Al-Ansari, Saeed Khezri, Kamran Chapi, Binh Thai Pham, Ata Amini (2020)

SWPT: An automated GIS-based tool for prioritization of sub-watersheds based on morphometric and topo-hydrological factors Omid Rahmati, Mahmood Samadi, Himan Shahabi, Ali Azareh, Elham Rafiei-Sardooi, Ataollah Shirzadi, Kamran Chapi, Biswajeet Pradhan, Assefa M.Melesse, Hossein Alilou (2019)

A Hybrid Computational Intelligence Approach to Groundwater Spring Potential Mapping DieuTien Bui, Ataollah Shirzadi, Kamran Chapi, Himan Shahabi, Biswajeet Pradhan, Lee Saro, Baharin Ben Ahmad, khabat khosravi, Wei Chen, Vijay P. Singh, Binh Thai Pham (2019)

A novel hybrid approach of Bayesian Logistic Regression and its ensembles for landslide susceptibility assessment Mosa Abdini, Bahare Qasemyan, Ataollah Shirzadi, Himan Shahabi, Kamran Chapi, DieuTien Bui, Baharin Ben Ahmad, Binh Thai Pham (2019)

Development of an Artificial Intelligence Approach for Prediction of Consolidation Coefficient of Soft Soil: A Sensitivity Analysis Manh Duc Nguyen, Binh Thai Pham, Tran Thi Tuyen, Hoang Phan Hai Yen, Indra Prakash, DieuTien Bui, Nguyen Kim Quoc, Jie Dou, Himan Shahabi, Ataollah Shirzadi, Kamran Chapi, Thanh Tien Vu (2019)

Flood Spatial Modeling in Northern Iran Using Remote Sensing and GIS: A Comparison between Evidential Belief Functions and Its Ensemble with a Multivariate Logistic Regression Model DieuTien Bui, khabat khosravi, Himan Shahabi, Prasad Daggupati, Jan Adamowski, Lee Saro, Kamran Chapi, Ataollah Shirzadi, Biswajeet Pradhan, Sepideh Bahrami, Mehrnoosh Mahmoudi, Hamidreza Pourghasemi, Binh Thai Pham, Assefa M.Melesse (2019)

A comparative assessment of flood susceptibility modeling using Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Analysis and Machine Learning Methods Khabat Khosravi, Himan Shahabi, Binh Thai Pham, Jan Adamowski, Ataollah Shirzadi, Indra Prakash, Kamran Chapi, Haoyuan Hong, Huu Loc Ho, Gyula Gróf, Hai-Bang Ly, Jie Dou, Biswajeet Pradhan (2019)

A Novel Ensemble Artificial Intelligence Approach for Gully Erosion Mapping in a Semi-Arid Watershed (Iran) DieuTien Bui, Ataollah Shirzadi, Himan Shahabi, Kamran Chapi, Ebrahim Omidvar, Lee Saro, Gyula Gróf, Hosein Rahmani, Baharin Ben Ahmad, Mahdi Panahi, Biswajeet Pradhan, Hossein Khaledian, Davod Talebpur Asl, Binh Thai Pham (2019)

Landslide spatial modelling using novel bivariate statistical based Naïve Bayes, RBF Classifier, and RBF Network machine learning algorithms Qingfeng He, Himan Shahabi, Ataollah Shirzadi, Shaojun Li, Wei Chen, Baharin Ben Ahmad, Kamran Chapi, Xiaojing Wang, Yingtao Chen, Jianquan Ma, Huiyuan Bian, Huichan Chai, Nianqin Wang (2019)

Shallow Landslide Prediction Using a Novel Hybrid Functional Machine Learning Algorithm DieuTien Bui, Himan Shahabi, Ebrahim Omidvar, Ataollah Shirzadi, Marten Geertsema, Lee Saro, Gyula Gróf, Hosein Rahmani, Baharin Ben Ahmad, Zahra Barati, Kamran Chapi, Binh Thai Pham, Biswajeet Pradhan, Khabat Khosravi, John J. Clague (2019)

Sinkhole susceptibility mapping: a comparison between Bayes-based machine learning algorithms Kamal Taheri, Himan Shahabi, Kamran Chapi, Ataollah Shirzadi, Francisco Gutiérrez, Khabat Khosravi (2019)

Uncertainties of prediction accuracy in shallow landslide modeling: Sample size and raster resolution Ataollah Shirzadi, Karim Solimani, Mahmood HabibnejadRoshan, Ataollah Kavian, Kamran Chapi, DieuTien Bui, Baharin Ben Ahmad, Saskia Keesstra, Himan Shahabi (2019)

Landslide susceptibility assessment at the Wuning area, China: a comparison between multi-criteria decision making, bivariate statistical and machine learning methods Haoyuan Hong, Himan Shahabi, Ataollah Shirzadi, Wei Chen, Kamran Chapi, DieuTien Bui, Yingying Tian, Arastoo Yari, Majid Shadman Roodposhti, Baharin Ben Ahmad (2019)

Mapping Groundwater Potential Using a Novel Hybrid Intelligence Approach Shaghayegh Miraki, Sasan Hedayati Zanganeh, Kamran Chapi, Vijay P. Singh, Ataollah Shirzadi, Binh Thai Pham, Himan Shahabi (2019)

Landslide Susceptibility Modeling Based on GIS and Novel Bagging-Based Kernel Logistic Regression Wei Chen, Himan Shahabi, Shuai Zhang, Khabat Khosravi, Ataollah Shirzadi, Baharin Ben Ahmad, Renwei Li, Xiaojing Wang, Yingtao Chen, Jianquan Ma, Huichan Chai, Lingyu Zhang, Tingyu Zhang, Binh Thai Pham, Kamran Chapi (2018)

Novel GIS Based Machine Learning Algorithms for Shallow Landslide Susceptibility Mapping Ataollah Shirzadi, Karim solaimani, Mahmood Habibnejhad, Ataollah Kavian, Kamran Chapi, DieuTien Bui, Baharin Ben Ahmad, Anuar Ahmad, Biswajeet Pradhan, Binh Thai Pham, Khabat Khosravi, Wei Chen, Himan Shahabi (2018)

Novel Hybrid Evolutionary Algorithms for Spatial Prediction of Floods DieuTien Bui, Mahdi Panahi, Himan Shahabi, Vijay P. Singh, Ataollah Shirzadi, Baharin Ben Ahmad, Shaojun Li, Somayeh Panahi, Wei Chen, Khabat Khosravi, Kamran Chapi (2018)

A Novel Integrated Approach of Relevance Vector Machine Optimized by Imperialist Competitive Algorithm for Spatial Modeling of Shallow Landslides DieuTien Bui, Himan Shahabi, Ataollah Shirzadi, Kamran Chapi, Nhat-Duc Hoang, Lee Saro, Baharin Ben Ahmad, Mahdi Panahi, Chuyen-Trung Tran, Quang-Thanh Bui, Binh Thai Pham (2018)

Landslide Detection and Susceptibility Mapping by AIRSAR Data Using Support Vector Machine and Index of Entropy Models in Cameron Highlands, Malaysia DieuTien Bui, Himan Shahabi, Ataollah Shirzadi, Kamran Chapi, Mohsen Ali Zadeh, Yingying Tian, Haoyuan Hong, Mahdi Panahi, Baharin Ben Ahmad, Ayub Mohammadi, Wei Chen (2018)

New Hybrids of ANFIS with Several Optimization Algorithms for Flood Susceptibility Modeling DieuTien Bui, Khabat Khosravi, Shaojun Li, Himan Shahabi, Mahdi Panahi, Baharin Ben Ahmad, Wei Chen, Somayeh Panahi, Ataollah Shirzadi, Kamran Chapi, Vijay P. Singh (2018)

Land Subsidence Susceptibility Mapping in South Korea Using Machine Learning Algorithms DieuTien Bui, Himan Shahabi, Ataollah Shirzadi, Kamran Chapi, Biswajeet Pradhan, Lee Saro, Baharin Ben Ahmad, Mahdi Panahi, Khabat Khosravi (2018)

Novel forecasting approaches using combination of machine learning and statistical models for flood susceptibility mapping Hossein Shafizadeh-Moghadam, Roozbeh Valavi, Himan Shahabi, Kamran Chapi, Ataollah Shirzadi (2018)

A comparative assessment of decision trees algorithms for flash flood susceptibility modeling at Haraz watershed, northern Iran Khabat Khosravi, Binh Thai Pham, Kamran Chapi, Ataollah Shirzadi, Himan Shahabi, DieuTien Bui, Indra Prakash, Inge Revhaug (2018)

A Novel Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Approach for Flood Susceptibility Assessment Kamran Chapi, Vijay P. Singh, Ataollah Shirzadi, Himan Shahabi, DieuTien Bui, Khabat Khosravi, Binh Thai Pham (2017)

A comparative study between popular statistical and machine learning methods for simulating volume of landslides Ataollah Shirzadi, Himan Shahabi, Kamran Chapi, DieuTien Bui, Binh Thai Pham, Baharin Ben Ahmad, Kaka Shahedi (2017)

Non-point source contribution and dynamics of soluble and particulate phosphorus from main tributaries of the Zarivar Lake watershed, Iran Seyed Hamid Reza Sadeghi, Shirko Ebrahimi Mohammadi, vijey p. singh, Kamran Chapi (2017)

Rock fall susceptibility assessment along a mountainous road: an evaluation of bivariate statistic, analytical hierarchy process and frequency ratio Ataollah Shirzadi, Kamran Chapi, Himan Shahabi, Karim solaimani, Ataollah Kavian, Baharin Ben Ahmad (2017)

Shallow landslide susceptibility assessment using a novel hybrid intelligence approach Ataollah Shirzadi, DieuTien Bui, Binh Thai Pham, Karim solaimani, Kamran Chapi, Inge Revhaug, Himan Shahabi, Ataollah Kavian (2017)

Flash flood susceptibility analysis and its mapping using different bivariate models in Iran: a comparison between Shannon’s entropy, statistical index, and weighting factor models Khabat Khosravi, Hamidreza Pourghasemi, Kamran Chapi, Masoumeh Bahri (2016)

Spatiotemporal patterns of stable isotopes and hydrochemistry in springs and river flow of the upper Karkheh River Basin, Iran Khaled Osati, Paul Koeniger, Ali Salajegheh, Mohammad Mahdavi, Kamran Chapi, Arash Malekian (2015)

Spatial-Temporal Dynamics of Runoff Generation Areas in a Small Agricultural Watershed in Southern Ontario Kamran Chapi, Ramesh Pall Rudra, Seyed Imran Ahmed, Alamgir Akhtar Khan, Bahram Gharabaghi, Pradip Kumar Goel, William Trevor Dickinson (2015)

Estimation of Willingness to Pay for Conservation of Zarivar Wetland, Iran: A Contingent Valuation Approach mehtnoosh Asadi, Hamed GHaderzadah, Kamran Chapi, Fariba rezaei (2014)

A GIS-based logistic regression model in rock-fall susceptibility mapping along a mountainous road: Salavat Abad case study, Kurdistan, Iran Ataollah Shirzadi, Lee Saro, Oh Hyun Joo, Kamran Chapi (2012)

TEMPERATURE VARIABILITY IN KURDISTAN PROVINCE, IRAN Kamran Chapi, Golale Ghafari (2012)

Conference Papers

Evaluation of Chemical quality of karstic water of Cave (Sohoolan cave, Mahabad in Iran) Saeed Khezri, Himan Shahabi, Sara Mohammadi, Kamran Chapi (2016)

Optimizing urban modeling based on road network and land use/cover changes by using agent based - cellular automata model Yousef Khajavigodellou, Ali Asghar Alesheikh, Farshad Hakimpour, Kamran Chapi (2015)

Excellent approach to modeling urban expansion by Fuzzy Cellular Automata – Agent Base Model Yousef Khajavigodellou, Ali Asghar Alesheikh, Abdulrazak A. S. Mohammed, Kamran Chapi (2014)

Simulating urban expansion through Cellular Automata model on different neighborhood size Yousef Khajavigodellou, Ali Asghar Alesheikh, Kamran Chapi, Farshad Hakimpour (2014)

Detection of Trend in Mean Temperature of Western Iran Kamran Chapi, Golale Ghafari (2013)

Runoff and Suspended Sediment load from main Tributaries into the Zarivar Lake Shirko Ebrahimi Mohammadi, Seyed Hamid Reza Sadeghi, Kamran Chapi (2013)

Spatial and temporal variability of stable isotopes in the Upper Karkheh River basin, Iran Paul Koeniger, Khaled Osati, Ali Salajegheh, Mohammad Mahdavi, Kamran Chapi, Arash Malekian (2012)

Preliminary Results from Subsurface Hydrological Investigations of Debgolan Plain, Kurdistan, Iran using Geophysical Techniques Payam Sajadi, Amit Singh, Saumitra Mukherjee, Kamran Chapi (2012)

Stable isotopes stream flow characteristics of the Karkheh River in Iran and implications for water resources management Paul Koeniger, Khaled Osati, Ali Salajegheh, Mohammad Mahdavi, Kamran Chapi, Arash Malekian (2012)

TEMPERATURE VARIABILITY IN KURDISTAN PROVINCE, IRAN Kamran Chapi, Golale Ghafari (2012)

Effect of Exclosure on Vegetation of Rangelands in Semi-Arid Areas Zaniar Mehram, Kamran Chapi, Parviz karami, Mohammad Jafari, Seyed Akbar javadi (2011)

Comparison of Subpixel and Pixelbase methods in Estimates the Snow Surface Basin using MODIS Images Seyed Kazem Alavipanah, Hiresh Entezami, Ali Darvishi, HamidReza Matinfar, Kamran Chapi (2011)

REMOTELY-BASED MONITORING OF WELL-VEGETATED WATERSHEDS Kamran Chapi, Ramesh Pall Rudra, Bahram Gharabaghi, William Trevor Dickinson (2010)

Runoff Generating Area and its Identification in a Watershed Ramesh Pall Rudra, Kamran Chapi, William Trevor Dickinson, Bahram Gharabaghi, Seyed Imran Ahmed, C. Tucker, Pradip Kumar Goel (2010)

Modeling Variable Source Area from an Agricultural Watershed Kamran Chapi, Ramesh Pall Rudra, Seyed Imran Ahmed, William Trevor Dickinson, Pradip Kumar Goel (2009)

Speech

Green Engineers for Future of the Environment Kamran Chapi (2016)

Watershed Health Assessment: A Need for Integrated Water Resources Management Kamran Chapi (2016)

Books

Flood susceptibility mapping at Ningdu catchment, China using bivariate and data mining techniques khabat khosravi, Assefa M.Melesse, Himan Shahabi, Ataollah Shirzadi, Kamran Chapi, Haoyuan Hong (2019)

Geospatial Applications for Natural Resources Management Payam Sajadi, Amit Singh, Saumitra Mukherjee, Harshita Asthana, Pingping Luo, Kamran Chapi (2018)

Environment and Biodiversity Payam Sajadi, Amit Singh, Saumitra Mukherjee, Kamran Chapi (2014)

Theses

Preliminary Results from Surface and Subsurface Hydrological Investigations of Dehgolan Plain, Kurdistan, Iran using Geophysical, Remote Sensing and GIS Techniques Payam Sajadi, Kamran Chapi, Saumitra Mukherjee (2012)

Projects

Application of Novel Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Approaches for Flood Susceptibility Assessment in different watersheds and climates using GIS and RS (Iran and China) Himan Shahabi, Kamran Chapi, Ataollah Shirzadi (2021)

A Laboratory and Field Scale Evaluation of Compost Biofilters for Stormwater Management Bahram Gharabaghi, Christopher Inkratas, Kamran Chapi, Vahid Taleban, Tina Costelo, Rebecca Bach, Diana Repall, Ryan Breivik, Christine Desrochers, Steven Murray, Liz Carlson, Adam Kristoferson, Karen Finney, Edward McBean, Ramesh Pall Rudra (2007)

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Research interests

Watershed Management
Hydrological Modeling
Water Resources Engineering
River Engineering
Soil Erosion and Sediment Modeling
Environmental Risks (Floods, Droughts, Landslides)

Name: Farzaneh Karimi Kahelabadi

AcademicLevel: Master

Field: Watershed Engineering and Science

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Name: Fatemeh Jafari Kalakan

AcademicLevel: Master

Field: Watershed Engineering and Science

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Name: Ali Mohammadi Bolbanabad

AcademicLevel: Master

Field: Watershed Engineering and Science

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Name: Shahin Karami Ghalegah

AcademicLevel: Master

Field: Watershed Engineering and Science

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Name: Jalaladdin Shahbaz

AcademicLevel: Master

Field: Watershed Engineering

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Name: Shno Veisi

AcademicLevel: Master

Field: Watershed Engineering

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Name: Leyla Rezazadeh

AcademicLevel: Master

Field: Watershed Management (Flood and River)

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Name: Afrooz Gavili

AcademicLevel: Master

Field: Water Resources Engineering

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Name: Parisa Salvati

AcademicLevel: Master

Field: Water Resources Engineering

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Name: Hazhir Amjadi

AcademicLevel: Master

Field: Water Resources Engineering

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Name: Baha Ebrahimi

AcademicLevel: Master

Field: Water Resources Engineering

Thesis:
Name: Hassan Fatehi

AcademicLevel: Master

Field: Watershed Management (Flood and River)

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Name: Shamim Faizi

AcademicLevel: Master

Field: Watershed Management (Flood and River)

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Name: Sara Karami

AcademicLevel: Master

Field: Watershed Engineering

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Name: Nasim Rahimi

AcademicLevel: Master

Field: Watershed Engineering

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Name: Razaveh Aziznejad

AcademicLevel: Master

Field: Watershed Engineering

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Member of International Policy Council - University of Kurdistan (1400 - present)
Director of International Students - University of Kurdistan (1397 - 1400)
Member of Entrepreneurship Committee - University of Kurdistan (1396 - 1397)
Member of International Relations Council - University of Kurdistan (1395 - present)
Member of Research Centre for Water Sciences and Engineering - University of Kurdistan (1394 - present)
Vice-Dean for Research, Faculty of Natural Resources - University of Kurdistan (1391 - 1393)
Member of Research Council - University of Kurdistan (1389 - 1391)
Head of Department of Rangeland and Watershed Management (1388 - 1390)
Head of Department of Rangeland and Watershed Management (1379 - 1381)

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