His current scientific interests include landslides modelling, natural hazards, multi-hazard mapping, machine learning, and spatial modelling in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Remote Sensing (RS). He is also skilled in application of data mining/machine learning techniques in natural and man-made hazards (flood, gully erosion, forest fire, and land subsidence); application of GIS and RS in natural resources and environment; application of spatial multi criteria evaluation (SMCE) and analytical hierarchy process (AHP), and geo-statistics in hydrology. For his scientific results he has been selected as the best educational professor at Shiraz University, College of Agriculture (2017); distinguished researcher (2017); distinguished youngest researcher (2018); and distinguished researcher (2019) all at Shiraz University. Also, he was selected as Highly Cited Researcher in 2019 by Web Of Science.