Riley Hales is a researcher in hydrology and river hydraulics with an emphasis on numerical modeling. His research focuses on building large-scale numerical models that are user accessible and application ready for sustainable use in underdeveloped regions, with expertise in physical and statistical models, machine learning, remote sensing, high performance computing, geographic information systems, web development, and decision support tools. He received his doctoral degree in Civil Engineering from Brigham Young University. As Technical Director of GEOGLOWS he has built two generations of a global hydrologic model providing forecast and hindcast river discharge predictions at 7 million river reaches worldwide, receiving more than 60 thousand requests for data each day. He has provided hydrologic capacity building and training in more than a dozen countries across Central and South America, Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia, and also works as the Research Lab Manager at Brigham Young University.