Omar Wani is an assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Urban Engineering at New York University, where he leads the Hydrologic Systems Group. The group combines statistical and computational methods to study the dynamics of water in various built and natural environments.
Before joining NYU, Dr. Wani conducted his postdoctoral work at the University of California Berkeley's Environmental Systems Dynamics Lab and the California Institute of Technology’s Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences. He has a Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from ETH Zurich, Switzerland, a joint master's degree from the Delft Institute for Water Education, the Netherlands and the Technical University of Dresden, Germany, and a bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India.