Publications

Journal articles, conference papers, and manuscripts under review on machine learning for hydrology and environmental systems. My name is in bold.

2027

WACV Conference

Basin2Vec: Learning Basin-Centric Embeddings for Scalable Hydrological Modeling

Muhammad Talha, Xiaofeng Liu, Yuan Yang, Pang-Ning Tan, and A. Pouyan Nejadhashemi

Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) · 2027

Code

@inproceedings{talha2026basin2vec,
  title = {Basin2Vec: Learning Basin-Centric Embeddings for Scalable Hydrological Modeling},
  author = {Talha, Muhammad and Liu, Xiaofeng and Yang, Yuan and Tan, Pang-Ning and Nejadhashemi, A. Pouyan},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)},
  year = {2027},
  publisher = {IEEE}
}

2026

ICLR Under review

Multimodal Foundation Priors for Diffusion-Calibrated Zero-Shot Time Series Reconstruction

Yingda Fan, Muhammad Talha, Vinh Ngoc Tran, Chonghao Qiu, Xi Xiao, Xiaowei Jia, and Dan Lu

International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) · 2026

@unpublished{fan2026multimodal,
  title = {Multimodal Foundation Priors for Diffusion-Calibrated Zero-Shot Time Series Reconstruction},
  author = {Fan, Yingda and Talha, Muhammad and Tran, Vinh Ngoc and Qiu, Chonghao and Xiao, Xi and Jia, Xiaowei and Lu, Dan},
  note = {Under review, International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)},
  year = {2026}
}

EAAI Under review

From Aggregated to Distributed: A Transformer Framework for Generalizable Streamflow Modeling Across Space and Time

Muhammad Talha, A. Pouyan Nejadhashemi, and Xiaofeng Liu

Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence · 2026

Code

@unpublished{talha2026hydrotransformer,
  title = {From Aggregated to Distributed: A Transformer Framework for Generalizable Streamflow Modeling Across Space and Time},
  author = {Talha, Muhammad and Nejadhashemi, A. Pouyan and Liu, Xiaofeng},
  note = {Under review, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence},
  year = {2026}
}

Sci. Data Journal

BASINGRID: A distributed 40-year spatiotemporal hydrology dataset for U.S. basins

Muhammad Talha, A. Pouyan Nejadhashemi, Xiaofeng Liu, and Yuan Yang

Scientific Data · 2026

DOI Code

@article{talha2026basingrid,
  title = {{BASINGRID}: A distributed 40-year spatiotemporal hydrology dataset for {U.S.} basins},
  author = {Talha, Muhammad and Nejadhashemi, A. Pouyan and Liu, Xiaofeng and Yang, Yuan},
  journal = {Scientific Data},
  year = {2026},
  publisher = {Nature Publishing Group},
  doi = {10.1038/s41597-026-08030-4}
}

EMS Journal

Watershed-agnostic modeling: An explainable, distributed, data-driven hydrologic model

Muhammad Talha and A. Pouyan Nejadhashemi

Environmental Modelling & Software, 205, 107149 · 2026

DOI Code

@article{talha2026watershed,
  title = {Watershed-agnostic modeling: An explainable, distributed, data-driven hydrologic model},
  author = {Talha, Muhammad and Nejadhashemi, A. Pouyan},
  journal = {Environmental Modelling \& Software},
  volume = {205},
  pages = {107149},
  year = {2026},
  publisher = {Elsevier},
  doi = {10.1016/j.envsoft.2026.107149}
}

2025

Heliyon Journal

Soft computing paradigm for climate change adaptation and mitigation in Iran, Pakistan, and Turkey: A systematic review

Muhammad Talha, A. Pouyan Nejadhashemi, and Kieron Moller

Heliyon, 11(2), e41974 · 2025

DOI18 citations

@article{talha2025soft,
  title = {Soft computing paradigm for climate change adaptation and mitigation in Iran, Pakistan, and Turkey: A systematic review},
  author = {Talha, Muhammad and Nejadhashemi, A. Pouyan and Moller, Kieron},
  journal = {Heliyon},
  volume = {11},
  number = {2},
  pages = {e41974},
  year = {2025},
  publisher = {Elsevier},
  doi = {10.1016/j.heliyon.2025.e41974}
}

2024

FES Journal

Unveiling the resilience of smallholder farmers in Senegal amidst extreme climate conditions

Kieron Moller, A. Pouyan Nejadhashemi, and Muhammad Talha

Food and Energy Security, 13(1), e523 · 2024

DOI11 citations

@article{moller2024unveiling,
  title = {Unveiling the resilience of smallholder farmers in Senegal amidst extreme climate conditions},
  author = {Moller, Kieron and Nejadhashemi, A. Pouyan and Talha, Muhammad},
  journal = {Food and Energy Security},
  volume = {13},
  number = {1},
  pages = {e523},
  year = {2024},
  publisher = {Wiley},
  doi = {10.1002/fes3.523}
}

2022

ICAI Conference

Transferable Learning Architecture for Scalable Visual Quality Inspection

Muhammad Talha, Sheikh Faisal, Zain Iftikhar, and M. Touseef Afzal

2022 2nd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI), pp. 26–32 · 2022

DOI Code8 citations

@inproceedings{talha2022transferable,
  title = {Transferable Learning Architecture for Scalable Visual Quality Inspection},
  author = {Talha, Muhammad and Faisal, Sheikh and Iftikhar, Zain and Afzal, M. Touseef},
  booktitle = {2022 2nd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI)},
  pages = {26--32},
  year = {2022},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  doi = {10.1109/ICAI55435.2022.9773637}
}