Professional Contributions

Publications, Presentations, and Research

Journal Publications [Published]

  1. Maghsoodifar, F., Radfar, S., Moftakhari, H., & Moradkhani, H. (2025). Establishing closure criteria for coastal roadways under flooding conditions, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, Article, (Featured by PreventionWeb UNDRR & Transportation Research Board, National Academies)
  2. Maghsoodifar, F. (2022). Numerical Study of the Skirted Foundation of Wind Turbines (Offshore and onland) on Sand under Lateral Dynamic Loading (Master's Thesis).
  3. Maghsoodifar, F. &. Makarchian, M (2022). A review on the numerical studies of the behavior of skirted foundations of offshore wind turbines and the future research directions, 22nd Marine Industries Conference (MIC2022), Tehran.

Contributions to Scientific Meetings

  1. Maghsoodifar, F., Moftakhari, H., Sweet, W., & Obeysekera, J. (2026, May 17–22). Gulf Coast extreme water level threshold prediction via deep learning [Oral presentation]. 39th International Conference on Coastal Engineering (ICCE 2026), Galveston, TX, United States.
  2. Maghsoodifar, F., Moftakhari, H., Sweet, W., & Obeysekera, J. (2025, December 15–19). Estimating fine resolution local sea level scaling factors using ensemble deep learning [Poster presentation]. AGU Fall Meeting, NH018 - Extreme Sea Levels: Modeling, Impacts, and Risk Management, New Orleans, LA, United States.
  3. Maghsoodifar, F., Sakib, M. S., Mowafy, M., Wang, H., Cohen, S., Tsang, Y., Moftakhari, H., Muñoz, D. F., Ray, P., & Lei, F. (2025, December 15–19). Bridging return period gaps in flood inundation mapping using a hybrid deep learning approach [Poster presentation]. AGU Fall Meeting, H122 – Recent Advances in Remote Sensing and Modeling of Flood Inundation, New Orleans, LA, United States.
  4. Lewis, M., Maghsoodifar, F., Radfar, S., Moftakhari, H., Williams, S., Lakin, J., Elliott, E., Miller-Way, T., & Dixon, A. (2025, December 15–19). A modular game-based learning platform for advancing coastal resilience education in K–12 and undergraduate classrooms [Poster presentation]. AGU Fall Meeting, ED010 – Co-Creating Science Education: Collaborative Models for Education and Outreach, New Orleans, LA, United States.
  5. Nujhat, M., Moftakhari, H., Maghsoodifar, F., & Moradkhani, H. (2025, December 15–19). Standardizing performance evaluation for compound flooding: Challenges and recommendations [Poster presentation]. AGU Fall Meeting, NH031 - Multi-Hazard Flood Modeling: From Inland to Coast, New Orleans, LA, United States.
  6. Sakib, M. S., Mowafy, M., Wang, H., Maghsoodifar, F., Cohen, S., Tsang, Y., Muñoz, D. F., Ray, P., Lei, F., & Moftakhari, H. (2025, December 15–19). A comparative analysis of operational multi-method flood inundation mapping: Quantifying fidelity–accuracy tradeoffs [Poster presentation]. AGU Fall Meeting, H122 – Recent Advances in Remote Sensing and Modeling of Flood Inundation, New Orleans, LA, United States.
  7. Maghsoodifar, F., Radfar, S., & Moftakhari, H. (2025, May 28–30). Establishing a flood threshold-based framework for resilient coastal transportation infrastructure [Poster presentation]. CIROH Developers Conference, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, United States.
  8. Maghsoodifar, F., Radfar, S., Moftakhari, H., & Moradkhani, H. (2024, December 9–13). Integrating geospatial techniques and hydrodynamic modeling to assess coastal transportation infrastructure resilience against hurricane hazard [Poster presentation]. AGU Fall Meeting, NH21C - Hazards and Consequences: Natural Hazard Risks and Impacts on Food, Infrastructure, and Human Systems III Poster, Washington, DC, United States.
  9. Maghsoodifar, F., Radfar, S., Moftakhari, H., & Moradkhani, H. (2024, Sep 4–6). Assessing the vulnerability of coastal roadways to flood hazards: A case study of the Mobile Causeway in South Alabama [Poster presentation]. ALWRC Fall Conference, Perdido Beach Resort, Orange Beach, AL, United States.
  10. Maghsoodifar, F., Cohen, S., Radfar, S., Moftakhari, H., & Moradkhani, H. (2024, April 8–10). Geospatial analysis of coastal causeway vulnerability: Integrating D-Flow modeling and Python geoprocessing for risk assessment [Poster presentation]. AWRA 2024 Spring Conference, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States. DOI
  11. Maghsoodifar, F., Radfar, S., Moftakhari, H., & Moradkhani, H. (2024, April 8–10). Fragility analysis of Mobile Causeway against flooding hazards [Poster presentation]. AWRA 2024 Spring Conference, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States. DOI
  12. Maghsoodifar, F., & Makarchian, M. (2022, December 12). A review on the numerical studies of the behavior of skirted foundations of offshore wind turbines and future research directions [Oral presentation]. 22nd Marine Industries Conference (MIC2022).