Working Teams of CCSC

| Modeling and Scenario Development Team | Adaptation, Impact Assessment and Mitigation Team  |

Two research teams are working to address various issues related to climate change. List is sorted alphabetically by  departments/institutes. 

Modeling and Scenario Development Team
 

 

  Department of Civil Engineering

 

Dr. Md.Saiful Alam Siddiqui

Professor

 

msa.sid@gmail.com

Interest: I am interested in regional climate modeling.

 

Expertise: I worked in nonlinear Finite Element modeling with very complex and realistic material model. I used UNIX, VAX and Fujitsu super computers. I have some experiences in cluster computation. I have also experiences in Artificial Neural Network and Support Vector Machine theory and application. I like to use my acquired knowledge to develop new regional climatic model based on fundamental differential equation. I just like to help my nation with my knowledge if possible
 

Dr. Md. Jobair Bin Alam

Professor

 

jobair@ce.buet.ac.bd

 

Interest:

 

Expertise: Transportation modelling, Transportation planning and management, Interaction of land-use, Transportation and environment, Traffic demand analysis, Traffic engineering, Transportation economics, Freight transportation.
 

Dr. M Moazzem Hossain

Professor

 

moazzem@ce.buet.ac.bd

Interest:

 

Expertise: Transportation Engineering

 
 

Dr. Md. Mafizur Rahman.

Professor

 

kaisar@ce.buet.ac.bd

mafizur@gmail.com

Interest:

 

Expertise: Climate Change impacts on food security, Climate change and water environment, Ground water pollution and Recharge, Environmental and Water Resources Engineering with GIS application, Urban air pollution and impact of climate change, Environmental Impact Assessment, Alternate water resources in urban and rural areas of developing countries

 
 

Dr. M Ashraf Ali

Professor

 

ashraf@ce.buet.ac.bd

Interest: My present areas of interest include:(1) Effect of climate change on agriculture, (2) Effect of climate change on water quality, water supply.

 

Expertise: Aquatic Chemistry, Surface Chemistry, Fate and transport of chemicals in surface and subsurface waters. Ground water contamination, hazardous waste site remediation, water and industrial waste treatment.

 
 

Dr. Munaz Ahmed Noor.

Associate Professor

 

mnoor@ce.buet.ac.bd

Interest: Climate Change Modeling
 

 

Expertise: Cement and concrete technology, earthquake vulnerability assessment of structures, building retrofitting, finite and discrete element modeling of structures.
 
 

Dr Zia Wadud

Assistant Professor

 

ziawadud@ce.buet.ac.bd

Interest: Adaptation policies and regional climate modeling.
 

 

Expertise: climate change mitigation policies; economics and policy; energy demand modeling; econometric and statistical modeling; economic valuation. I have coauthored the road transportation chapter in 'primer on transportation and climate change' to be distributed by the Transportation Research Board (part of NAS) in the USA.
 
 

Dr Charisma F. Choudhury

Assistant Professor

 

cfc@ce.buet.ac.bd

Interest: Development of behavioral models and simulation tools to evaluate climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies
 

 

Expertise: Transportation demand and economics, Behavioral modeling, Microsimulation, Sustainable transport and energy policies.

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  Institute of Water and Flood Management

 

Dr. M. Mozzammel Hoque

Professor

 

mozzammel@iwfm.buet.ac.bd

Interest:

 

Expertise: Surface and groundwater flow and transport processes, modeling and management

 

Dr. A.K.M. Saiful Islam

Associate Professor

 

akmsaifulislam@iwfm.buet.ac.bd

 

Interest: Regional Climate Change Modelling

 

Expertise: Hydrology and Climate Change Modeling, Remote Sensing and GIS, Hydro-informatics and web based modeling, Rainfall and Flood forecasting

 

Dr. M Asad Hussain

Assistant Professor

 

asadh@iwfm.buet.ac.bd

Interest:

 

Expertise: Coastal Engineering, Coastal Environment, Estuarine Processes, Turbulence Modeling for Stratified Flow.
 

 
 

Ms. Sonia Binte Murshed

Lecturer

 

sonia@iwfm.buet.ac.bd

Interest: Climate Change Modeling

 

Expertise: Integrated Water Resources Management, Climate Change
 

 
 

 

 

  Department of Mathematics
 

Dr. Md. Abdul Alim

Associate Professor

 

maalim@math.buet.ac.bd

Interest:

 

Expertise: Combustion and Heat Transfer

 

  Department of Urban and Regional Planning
 

Dr. Sarwar Jahan

Professor

 

sarwarjahan@urp.buet.ac.bd

Interest:

 

Expertise: Urban and Regional Analysis, Spatial Modeling, Geographical Information System, Disaster Management
 

Dr. Mohammad Shakil Akther

Assistant Professor

 

shakil@urp.buet.ac.bd

Interest:

 

Expertise: Environmental Planning and Management, Governance, Application of ICT in Development
 

Md. Musleh Uddin Hasan

Assistant Professor

 

musleh_uddin@urp.buet.ac.bd

Interest:

 

Expertise: Regional Economics and Rural Planning, Urban Planning and Management, Housing

 
 

Dr. Afsana Haque

Assistant Professor

 

afsanahaque@urp.buet.ac.bd

Interest:

 

Expertise: Regional Planning


 
 

Ms. Umma Tamima

Lecturer

 

umma_tamima@urp.buet.ac.bd

Interest:

 

Expertise: Urban Planning, Disaster Management
 

Md. Shakil Bin Kashem
 Lecturer

 

shakil_kashem@urp.buet.ac.bd

Interest:

 

Expertise: Environmental Planning and Management Disaster Management, Geographic Information System


 
 

  Department of Water Resources Engineering
 

Dr. Md. S. M. Khan

Associate Professor

 

mostafakhan@wre.buet.ac.bd

Interest:

 

Expertise: Hydrology, Open Channel Hydraulics, Surface and Groundwater Quality, Climatology, Climate Change, Integrated Water Resources Management in Urban and Rural Areas, Water-related Disaster Management, Numerical Modeling and Statistical Characterization of Climatic Parameters.
 

Biswajit Nandi

Assistant Professor

 

bdbiswajit@yahoo.com

Interest:

 

Expertise: Coastal Engineering and coastal zone management, River training works, Sediment transport, Computer based modeling in water resources system.
 

Ms. Sania Binte Mahtab

Lecturer

 

sania@wre.buet.ac.bd

Interest:

 

Expertise: Environmental Fluid Mechanics, Hydraulics, Hydrodynamic Stability and Mixing, Water Quality Management.
 

Mr. Badal Mahalder

Lecturer

 

badal@wre.buet.ac.bd
 

Interest:

 

Expertise: Coastal Hydrodynamics and Coastal Zone Management, Nearshore Sediment Transport, Impact of Climate Change on Hydrologic Process , Water Resources Management.
 

Mr. Rajib Kamal

Lecturer

 

rajibkamal@wre.buet.ac.bd

Interest:

 

Expertise: Computational Fluid Dynamics, Hydraulics and Flow Simulation, River Morphology and Sediment Transport, River Training and Navigation Works, Hydrology and Climatology, Application of GIS and Remote Sensing in Water Resources Problems
 

Adaptation, Impact Assessment and Mitigation Team  
 

  Department of Architecture

 

Dr. Zebun Nasreen Ahmed

Professor

 

znahmed@arch.buet.ac.bd
znahmedarch@gmail.com

Interest: Green architecture and applications in Ready Made Garments (RMG) sector in Bangladesh, sustainability issues in architecture, daylight design, architectural responses to climate change, vernacular architecture and reaction to climate change
 

Expertise: Climate-Building Interactions, Visual Environment, Day lighting in Architecture, Music Appreciation

 

Shamim Ara Hassan

Associate Professor

 

shassana@bol-online.com

Interest:

 

Expertise: Energy and Environment Issues in Architecture

 

  Department of Civil Engineering
 

Dr. M A Jalil

Professor

 

majalil@ce.buet.ac.bd

Interest:

 

Expertise: Environmental hydraulics. Computational fluid dynamics. Environmental sanitation. Water and sewage treatment, Environmental aspect of river improvements.
 

Dr. M Mafizur Rahman

Professor

 

kaisar@ce.buet.ac.bd

Interest:

 

Expertise: Climate Change impacts on food security, Climate change and water environment, Alternate water resources in urban and rural areas of developing countries, Ground water pollution and Recharge, Environmental and Water Resources Engineering with GIS application, Urban air pollution and impact of climate change.

 
 

Dr. M Ashraf Ali

Professor

 

ashraf@ce.buet.ac.bd

Interest: My present areas of interest include:(1) Effect of climate change on agriculture, (2) Effect of climate change on water quality, water supply.

 

Expertise: Aquatic Chemistry, Surface Chemistry, Fate and transport of chemicals in surface and subsurface waters. Ground water contamination, hazardous waste site remediation, water and industrial waste treatment.

 
 

Dr. Raquib Ahsan

Associate Professor

 

raquibahsan@ce.buet.ac.bd

Interest:

 

Expertise: Earthquake Engineering, Soil-Structure Interaction, Steel Structures
 

Dr. A F M Saiful Amin

Associate Professor

 

amin@bdcom.com

Interest:

 

Expertise: Earthquake resistant design of structures, Base isolation technique, Vibration control, Design of long span bridges, Experimental characterization and constitutive modeling of rubbers, Finite element simulation of nonlinear large deformation responses.
 

Dr. Md. Jahangir Alam

Assistant Professor

 

mjahangiralam@ce.buet.ac.bd

Interest:

 

Expertise: Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering, Mitigation against seismic liquefaction, Physical modeling by 1-g shaking table test and centrifuge model tests, Seismic stability of waterfront retaining structures, Earth reinforcement.
 

Dr. Zia Wadud

Assistant Professor

 

ziawadud@ce.buet.ac.bd

Interest: Adaptation policies and regional climate modeling.

 

Expertise: climate change mitigation policies; economics and policy; energy demand modeling; econometric and statistical modeling; economic valuation. I have coauthored the road transportation chapter in 'primer on transportation and climate change' to be distributed by the Transportation Research Board (part of NAS) in the USA.
 

Ms Snigdha Afsana

Assistant Professor

 

shanta@ce.buet.ac.bd

Interest:

 

Expertise: Risk assessment of arsenic and other carcinogenic elements present in groundwater, Water treatment for removal of Manganese and other heavy metals, Water quality modeling, Sustainable water supply and sanitation systems, Chemical treatment of water.
 

  Institute of Water and Flood Management
 

Dr. Md. Munsur Rahman

Professor

 

mmrahman@iwfm.buet.ac.bd

Interest:

 

Expertise: River Engineering
 
 

Dr. Tarekul Islam
Associate Professor

 

tarek@iwfm.buet.ac.bd

Interest:

 

Expertise: River Engineering, River and Floodplain Management, Geoinformatics in Water Management, Gender Mainstreaming in Water Management, Stochastic Modeling of Hydrologic Information

 
 

Dr. Mashfiqus Salehin

Associate Professor

 

mashfiqussalehin@iwfm.buet.ac.bd

Interest:

 

Expertise: Water resources systems modeling, Groundwater hydraulics, Contaminant transport processes, Numerical modeling of groundwater flow and transport, Surface water-groundwater interactions, Stochastic groundwater hydrology, Computational fluid dynamics modeling.
 

Dr. Sujit Kumar Bala

Associate Professor

 

bala@iwfm.buet.ac.bd

Interest:

 

Expertise: Hydrology, Irrigation and Water Resources Development
 
 

Dr. Mohamad Asad Hussain

Assistant Professor

 

asadh@iwfm.buet.ac.bd

Interest:

 

Expertise: Coastal Engineering, Coastal Environment, Estuarine Processes, Turbulence Modeling for Stratified Flow.
 

Department of Urban and Regional Planning
 

Dr. Roxana Hafiz

Professor

 

rhafiz@urp.buet.ac.bd

Interest:

 

Expertise: Housing, Urban Design and Land Development, Recreational Area Planning, Landscape Design
 
 

Dr. Mohammad Shakil Akther

Assistant Professor

 

shakil@urp.buet.ac.bd

Interest:

 

Expertise: Environmental Planning and Management, Governance, Application of ICT in Development
 

Dr. Ishrat Islam

Assistant Professor

 

ishratislam@urp.buet.ac.bd

Interest:

 

Expertise: Urban Design and Planning, Land Use Planning
 
 

Md. Musleh Uddin Hasan

Assistant Professor

 

musleh_uddin@urp.buet.ac.bd

Interest:

 

Expertise: Regional Economics and Rural Planning, Urban Planning and Management, Housing
 

Dr. Afsana Haque

Assistant Professor

 

afsanahaque@urp.buet.ac.bd

Interest:

 

Expertise: Regional Planning
 
 

Md. Shakil Bin Kashem

Lecturer

 

shakil_kashem@urp.buet.ac.bd

Interest:

 

Expertise: Environmental Planning and Management Disaster Management, Geographic Information System
 
 

Ms. Umma Tamima

Lecturer

 

umma_tamima@urp.buet.ac.bd

Interest:

 

Expertise: Urban Planning, Disaster Management
 
 

Ms. Annya Chanda Shimi

Lecturer

 

annya_shimi@.buet.ac.bd

Interest:

 

Expertise: Urban Planning, Disaster Management
 
 

 Department of Water Resources Engineering
 

Dr. Md. Ataur Rahman

Associate Professor

 

mataur@wre.buet.ac.bd

Interest:

 

Expertise: Coastal Engineering, Coastal Zone Management, Irrigation and Water Management, Hydraulics and Hydraulic Structures.
 
 

Ms. Lia Pervin

Lecturer

 

lia@wre.buet.ac.bd

Interest:

 

Expertise: Hydrology, Climate Change, River Engineering, Hydraulic Structures, Coastal Engineering.
 

Mr. Muhammed Rezaul Haider

Lecturer

 

rezaul20@yahoo.com

Interest:

 

Expertise: Stream Flow Modeling, Flood Plain Flow Simulation, Hydraulics, Satellite Rainfall Estimation, Climate change induced impact on hydrologic processes.
 
 
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