Arif Hasnat
Arif Hasnat
Doctoral Researcher
Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant | Principal Investigator
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering | Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois, USA
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Water, Complexity, and the Future of Urban Resilience
WELCOME!
I am a Ph.D. student in the School of Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, specializing in system-of-systems-based urban water management. I work under the supervision of Dr. Sangmin Shin at the SCIWater Lab.
My research focuses on understanding the feedback interactions and interdependencies among cyber, water, energy, transportation, and socioeconomic sectors within integrated water resources engineering. My previous and ongoing studies investigate: (1) how complex interactions between water and other interconnected sectors shape system resilience and sustainability, and (2) how engineering strategies—including system diversification and decentralization, cyber-physical systems approaches, and community participation—can enhance water sustainability and infrastructure resilience.
You may have come across my works in Springer Nature, Elsevier, Wiley, and MDPI journals, or in blogs, newspapers, and other media, or seen my talks, oral and poster presentations at the 2026 EWRI in Mobile, Alabama; the 2026 IWPC in Peoria, Illinois; the 2025 MAEEC at WashU in Missouri; RUET; CUET; and international outreach programs.
Office: Engineering D, Room D0048, 1230 Lincoln Dr, Carbondale, IL 62901, USA
Email: arif.hasnat@siu.edu
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EDUCATION
PhD in Civil & Environmental Engineering
Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, USA (2024-Ongoing)
MS in Applied Statistics & Data Science
Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh (2023)
BSc in Civil Engineering
RUET, Bangladesh (2015-2019)
JOB EXPERIENCE (5+ years)
Graduate Research & Teaching Assistant
Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, USA (2024-Ongoing)
Water Resources Engineer
WaterAid Bangladesh (2023-2024)
Manager-Research & Development
Urban Development & Management Div.
Disaster Management Watch Ltd.
(2020-2023)
RESEARCH INTERESTS
01 Smart Water Supply Systems
Monitoring, modeling, optimization, and resilient operation of water supply systems under uncertain demand, failures, and limited sensing.
02 Connected Water–Infrastructure Systems
Understanding feedback interactions among water supply, stormwater, cyber, energy, transportation, food, and socioeconomic systems.
03 Infrastructure Resilience & Sustainability
Evaluating how diversification, decentralization, redundancy, and coordinated operation improve infrastructure resilience, sustainability, and adaptability.
04 Intelligent Stormwater Management
Integrated modeling and control of drainage networks, distributed storage, green infrastructure, flood mitigation, and stormwater reuse systems.
05 Cyber-Physical Water Systems
Applying sensing, communication, automation, and intelligent control to improve the monitoring and operation of water infrastructure.
06 Integrated & Community-Engaged Water Planning
Creating socially engaged approaches that involve communities, engineers, researchers, and policymakers in resilient infrastructure development.
PUBLICATIONS.
PUBLICATIONS.
Publishing has allowed me to network with other scholars and to further refine my own ideas and research. It's something I enjoy immensely and hope that these papers will help others further their science and welcome any opportunities to collaborate.
PROJECTS.
PROJECTS.
Working in multiple projects have allowed me to build network with professionals and to further implement my own ideas and research outcomes. Combination of designing research and implement that in field is always thrilling and refining the learning.
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