Assefa is a Professor of Water Resources Engineering at the Department of Earth and Environment, Florida International University, with background in remote sensing and geospatial applications to hydrological modeling. He has vast experiences in the Nile River basin and the Caribbean islands. Assefa was a Fulbright Scholar in Ethiopia in 2012. He is a registered Professional Engineer (PE) and also Diplomate of Water Resources Engineer (D. WRE) with over 30 years of teaching, research and extension experience both in Ethiopia and USA.
