- Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2008
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Certificate in Business Administration, 2007
- M.S. in Hydrology and Water Resource Engineering, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, 2001
- B.S. in Agricultural Engineering, Haramaya University, Ethiopia, 1998
Joined WSU Tri-Cities in 2012 from Argonne National