Majid Mohammadian is a Professor at the University of Ottawa, Canada. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Civil Engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Iran and his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Laval University, Canada. He has several years of consulting experience in numerical modeling of flow and sediment in dam reservoirs, rivers, and hydraulic structures. Upon completing his Ph.D., he worked as an NSERC postdoctoral fellow (2006-2007) in Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University. He also worked as an NSERC postdoctoral fellow (2007-2008) for Environment Canada, and as a research scientist (2008-2009) in the Department of Earth, Atmosphere and Planetary Sciences at MIT. According to Scopus, he has published 110 papers.

Hossein Kheirkhah Gildeh is a graduate student in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Ottawa, Canada. His research is mainly focused on the dispersion and mixing of effluent discharges into large water bodies. Along with his research, Mr. Kheirkhah Gildeh practices as a water resources engineering consulting engineer for Golder Associates Ltd. His other research interests include environmental fluid mechanics, computational fluid dynamics, turbulence models in effluent discharges, river and coastal engineering, dam breach analysis and OpenFOAM modeling. He has published six journal papers.

Xiaohui Yan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Water Resources Engineering at the Dalian University of Technology, China. He received his B.Sc in Agricultural Water Resources Engineering from Shenyang Agricultural University, China and his M.A.Sc and Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Ottawa, Canada. He has worked as a research associate and postdoctoral fellow at the University of Ottawa. He also worked as an engineer and vice head of the Research Center at Zhuanghe City Water Resources Construction Survey and Design Institute. He has published 16 journal papers during his Ph.D. study.