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Yashar Rafati, Ph.D.

Coastal Engineer
HDR Inc
Walnut Creek, California, United States

Yashar is a Coastal Engineer specializing in coastal hazards modeling and vulnerability assessment, licensed in the state of California. He has led several coastal hazards assessment projects along the shorelines of California and Hawaii, implementing coastal modeling tools such as XBeach, SWAN, FUNWAVE, and CMS to simulate coastal hazards, flooding, and erosion, for state and federal agencies and coastal counties, providing guidelines for the design of coastal infrastructure and preserving coastal zones from rising sea levels. His academic background is in coastal hydrodynamics and sediment transport during extreme events, primarily on the US East Coast, and he has published several papers on coastal flooding and erosion in peer-reviewed journals.

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