Arash Kanani

Arash Kanani is an Associate Professor in the School of Environment and Sustainability at Royal Roads University. He concurrently serves as a project lead in the BC Ministry of Citizens’ Services. With a PhD in Civil Engineering (Water Resources) from Queen’s University (2014), he holds additional degrees from Sharif University of Technology (MS, 2007) and Iran University of Science and Technology (BS, 2004).

• Education:
• PhD in Civil Engineering, Queen’s University (2014)
• MSc in Water Resources Engineering, Sharif University of Technology (2007)
• BSc in Civil Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology (2004)

His teaching spans five years as a lab instructor in hydraulics at Queen’s University (2009–2014), a sessional lecturer in hydrology at the University of Victoria (2017–2018), and environmental hydrology/remediation courses at Royal Roads since 2018. Research interests include hydraulics, environmental fluid mechanics, and optimization algorithms applied to water resources.

His publications focus on turbulence dynamics in alluvial streams, coherent structures in open-channel flows, and computational methods for hydraulic analysis. Recent work emphasizes wavelet transform applications and evolutionary algorithms in engineering.

No scientific awards or grants are explicitly mentioned in the provided text. He has no listed advisees, though his teaching roles suggest mentorship experience.