Background

Education

Ph.D. - Cornell University
        • School of Civil and Environmental Engineering 
        • Automatic calibration, management and uncertainty analysis: phosphorus transport in the  
          Cannonsville Watershed 


 M.A.Sc. - University of British Columbia
        • Civil Engineering Department
        • Genetic Algorithms for multi-objective optimization in water quality management under  
          uncertainty


B.Sc. (Env.) - University of Guelph
        • Honours degree in Environmental Science 
 
 

Awards / Honours

  • 2019.  Mai and Tolson (2019) Water Resources Research publication chosen for Research Spotlight in EOS (American Geophysical Union Earth and Space Science news magazine).
  • 2016.  My student (M. Jahanpour) and I ranked first place in GECCO 2016 2-OBJ expensive Track multi-objective optimization competition – see https://bbcomp.ini.rub.de/results/BBComp2016-2OBJ-expensive/summary.html. We applied our PADDS algorithm.
  • 2015. Second Best Paper Award for the 13th Computer Control for Water Industry Conference for Khedr et al. (2015) conference paper. Second out of ~150 conference papers. 
  • 2014. Finished in 4th place (of 14 international teams) in the Battle of Background Leakage Assessment for Water Networks competition at the 16th International Conference on Water Distribution Systems Analysis for work summarized in Tolson and Khedr (2014) conference paper. 
  • 2013 Editor's Choice Award for Water Resources Research journal for Razavi et al. (2012) journal publication. Awards given to (about) the top one percent of published articles in any calendar year. 
  • 2013 Outstanding Reviewer Award for Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management 
  • 2012. WDSA conference Best Paper Presentation Award at the 14th International Conference on Water Distribution Systems Analysis for work summarized in Tolson et al. (2012) conference paper. Selected out of ~120 conference presentations.
  • 2012. Finished in 2nd place (of 14 international teams) in The Battle of the Water Networks II competition at the 14th International Conference on Water Distribution Systems Analysis for work summarized in Tolson et al. (2012) conference paper.
  • 2011 Prix Donald R. Stanley Award for the best paper on a civil engineering subject in the area of environmental engineering (Canadian Society for Civil Engineering), granted for the paper entitled ‘Risk assessment of a water supply system under climate variability: a stochastic approach’ 

 

 

Affiliations

• American Geophysical Union member 
• Canadian Geophysical Union member 
• University of Waterloo Water Institute member