Dr. Samadi is trained as a water resource engineer and works to advance the field of hydroinformatics and cyber-physical modeling systems. Much of her current research is focused on machine learning applications in flood/stormwater computing and decisions making, impacts of flooding on critical infrastructure, smart cities and infrastructure, big data analytics, and Geographic Information systems (GIS). Dr. Samadi's team has developed many packages and modeling systems including Flood Analytics Information System (FAIS), FAIRDNN, Flood Image Classifier, and Watershed Toolkit, as well as physical-based models.