Nahid Khazenie

Dr. Nahid Khazenie is a mechanical engineer who served as President of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society from 1998-1999.

Khazenie completed her undergraduate education at the Michigan Technological University before going on to receive several graduate degrees from the University of Texas at Austin, including a Ph.D. in 1987 for Mechanical Engineering and Operations Research. She joined the faculty and was a research scientist, specializing in remote sensing applications in agriculture and ocean studies. Because of her work there, she became a Senior Scientist appointment to the Naval Research Laboratory and then NASA as Earth Science Enterprise Education Programs Manager.