Parth Modi completed his M.S. in Biological Systems Engineering from Virginia Tech in 2020 and is completed his PhD in the Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering department at the University of Colorado Boulder in December, 2024. He has several experiences in land surface modeling (VIC, Noah-MP, National Water Model) and has worked on projects understanding the impacts of climate change on mesoscale hydrological processes and risk assessment of natural hazards including droughts and floods. His dissertation research focused on improving snow-based streamflow predictions during drought, exploring the use of incorporating a machine learning model (LSTM) into an Ensemble Streamflow Prediction (ESP) framework, and understanding the economic utility of drought predictions. Currently, Parth works as a Water Resources Engineer at Jacobs.