Experience



TTU SASWE
Research Group

Experience

2008 - Present:
Guest Editor, Springer-Verlag Book on 'Satellite Applications for Surface Hydrology'

International Precipitation Working Group Chair on 'Error Metrics'

Guest Editor, JAWRA Featured Collection on 'Satellites and Transboundary Water'

2006 - Present:
Associate Editor, Journal of American Water Resources Association

Review Panelist and Ad-hoc Reviewer of Federally-funded Proposals
(i) NASA ROSES (ii) National Science Foundation iii) MITACS-NCE (Canada) iv) Swiss National Science Foundation v) Hong Kong Research Grants Council

August, 2004 - Present:
Assistant Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tennessee Technological University.

March, 2003 - Present:
Reviewer of Manuscript submissions to the following International Journals:Water Resources Research (AGU), Environmental Modeling and Software, Journal of American Water Resources Association, Journal of Environmental Informatics, Environmental Forensics (Taylor and Francis); Water, Air and Soil Pollution (Kluwer), Journal of Hydrologic Engineering (ASCE), IEEE Transactions of Geosciences and Remote Sensing (IEEE), Non-linear Processes in Geo-physics, Remote Sensing of the Environment, EOS (AGU), Advances in Water Resources, Journal of Hydrometeorology, Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Analysis, Computers and Geosciences, Natural Hazards, Geophysical Research Letters(AGU), Science of Total Environment

August, 2002 - 2004:
NASA Earth System Science Fellow, Code Y (Earth Sciences Division), NASA, Washington DC, USA.
Conducted PhD Level Research on Understanding Earth as a System that addresses the priorities of NASA's mission to Planet Earth.

July, 2003 - 2004:
Curator and Concept Designer of an Information Website on a budding Environmental Software Management Firm based in Bangladesh - SAF Environmental Inc: http://www.saf-bd.com

May, 2003 - 2004:
Curator and Concept Designer of the UConn Hydrologic Remote Sensing Group Webpage: http://www.engr.uconn.edu/~ucwater 
Includes hosting of datamining operations and real-time uploading and downloading of data products produced by the Group.

August, 1999 – August, 2002:
PhD Research Assistant, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA.
Conducted computer-intensive research in the area of computational methods in hydrological sciences to better understand the uncertainty and limitations involved in rainfall-runoff hydrologic models. Project Funded by NASA. 

May, 1999 - June, 1999:
Lecturer, Bangladesh Institute of Technology- Rajshahi, Rajshahi 6204, Bangladesh.
Taught senior-level courses on Water and Wastewater Engineering. Managed the Computer Laboratory of the Department.

March, 1997 - Feb, 1999:
Research Staff Member, Wastewater Biotreatment Group (WBG), Department of Civil Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore. 
Conducted Masters-level research at the fully-equipped Environmental Laboratory and at the Computer-based Learning Centre (CBLC). Troubleshooting of Conventional and Cyclic Activated Sludge Systems with foaming and bulking problems through Operations Research and Computer Modelling and Optimization. Executed the conceptual development and feasibility study of a Three-tiered Intelligent Expert System for Automatic Control of Sequencing Batch Reactor Bulking treating high-strength industrial waste (COD> 3000 mg/l).

May, 1995 - June, 1995:
Industrial Attachment Trainee, Bangladesh Consultants Ltd. (BCL), Bangladesh.
Involved with IEE (Initial Environmental Examination) and EIA of a Major Port Upgrading Project and the World’s 11th Longest Bridge (Jamuna Multi-purpose Bridge) in Bangladesh. Work focused on studying the environmental effects of dredging, river training and reclamation. Funded by the Japanese Government.