Projects

Grant Authority: National Science Foundation (NSF)

Position: Research Assistant (PhD)

• Transforming Conventional Water Supply Systems: Developing decentralized water microgrids through network sectorization, distributed water resources, storage, treatment, and flexible interconnections to improve system adaptability.

• Enabling Intelligent Cyber-Physical Operation: Integrating hydraulic modeling, sensing, communication, optimization, automation, and intelligent control for real-time monitoring and resilient operation under uncertain demand, failures, and limited sensing.

• Advancing Infrastructure Resilience & Sustainability: Evaluating how diversification, decentralization, redundancy, and coordinated operation improve service continuity, resource efficiency, water-loss reduction, sustainability, and recovery from disruptions.

Grant Authority: IWRC, USGS

Position: Research Assistant (PhD)

• Understanding Connected Water-System Pressures: Investigating how climate change, AI-driven data-center growth, and competing municipal, industrial, and agricultural demands interact with surface water and groundwater systems.

• Developing Data-Driven Water Intelligence: Integrating hydrologic modeling, geospatial analysis, machine learning, and data reconstruction to quantify water-stress drivers and identify future vulnerability hotspots.

• Supporting Resilient and Community-Informed Planning: Developing open-source decision-support tools to guide sustainable water allocation, infrastructure investment, drought preparedness, and long-term planning for communities, utilities, and policymakers.

Grant Authority: SIU Sustainability Council

Position: Principal Investigator

• Intelligent Monitoring & Prediction: Developing an automated water-quality monitoring framework that integrates continuous observations, machine learning, and numerical modeling to assess key water-quality conditions and predict algal bloom risks.

• Sustainable Water Management: Creating data-driven visualization and decision-support tools for early detection, water-quality assessment, and cost-effective management of aquatic systems.

Grant Authority: Dr. Sangmin Shin

Position: Research Assistant (PhD)

• Coordinated Stormwater System Optimization: Developing a system-of-systems framework that integrates drainage networks, distributed storage, green infrastructure, stormwater reuse, and intelligent controls to optimize system-wide performance under changing rainfall and urban conditions.

• Resilient & Sustainable Urban Water Management: Evaluating how decentralization, coordination, redundancy, and adaptive operation can reduce flooding, improve stormwater reuse, enhance service continuity, and strengthen the long-term resilience and sustainability of urban water infrastructure.

Work for: Local Government Engineering Department (LGED), Government of Bangladesh, IFAD

Position: Project Manager

• Strengthened flood-resilient infrastructure planning across Bangladesh’s Haor region by leading impact assessment of a US$134.84 million climate-adaptation program across five highly flood-prone districts.

• Improved assessment of stormwater and flood-management infrastructure performance by evaluating the technical and environmental outcomes of infrastructure interventions under the region’s recurrent seasonal flooding and waterlogging conditions.

• Advanced climate-adaptive flood infrastructure planning by integrating flood exposure, drainage and water-management conditions, infrastructure performance, and community vulnerability into a comprehensive impact-assessment framework covering five Haor districts.

Work for: Implementation Monitoring & Evaluation Department, Government of Bangladesh

Position: Project Manager

• Evaluated the performance of pre-monsoon flood protection and drainage infrastructure over a 10-year, BDT 7,040.736 million (~US$82 million) program, assessing structural interventions, drainage functionality, flood-protection measures, and their effectiveness in reducing seasonal flood impacts across Haor areas.

• Assessed flood-management infrastructure and drainage-system performance through field inspections, on-site observations, quantitative and qualitative analysis, procurement review, and case studies, integrating engineering, environmental, social, and economic evidence to identify priorities for future stormwater drainage and flood-risk management.

Work for: Daira International, ADB, GLASGOW, UK, Arup, Plan International 

Position: Project Manager

• Strengthened community and urban water resilience assessment by evaluating climate-risk reduction projects and resilience plans across critical and climate-vulnerable urban areas, with emphasis on water-related hazards, infrastructure vulnerability, and community adaptive capacity.

• Quantified city-level resilience performance by developing and applying urban resilience scoring and portfolio-based evaluation to assess implemented projects, measure progress in reducing climate-induced disaster risks, and identify priorities for more resilient water and urban infrastructure systems.

Work for: OXFAM

Position: Deputy Project Manager

• Strengthened coastal flood and climate-resilience planning by leading strategic and impact assessments of existing and proposed interventions, evaluating their effectiveness in addressing flood risk, drainage and water-management challenges, and climate vulnerability across Bangladesh’s coastal areas.

• Advanced resilient coastal water management by integrating ecosystem resilience, natural-resource conditions, climate hazards, and infrastructure interventions into an evidence-based assessment framework to inform future flood-adaptation and water-resources development.

Work for: Caritas Bangladesh, Funded by Caritas France

Position: Deputy Project Manager

• Technical Assistance to City Development Authority in preparation of Master Plan of the city, which contains Structure Plan, Urban Area Plan, Detailed Area Plan (DAP), Disaster Response Plan incorporating various urban strategies, policies, and development programming.

• Improved urban water and flood-risk assessment through mixed-method analysis, quantitative surveys, key-informant interviews, and focus-group discussions, supporting evidence-based identification of drainage, waterlogging, and disaster-risk management priorities for resilient urban development.

Work for: German Red Cross (GRC); Funded by German Federal Foreign Office (GFFO)

Position: Project Manager

• Strengthened humanitarian water and sanitation resilience by evaluating WASH service delivery and disaster preparedness for vulnerable communities in Cox’s Bazar, assessing safe-water access, drainage, sanitation, hygiene facilities, and disaster-risk preparedness across Camps 13 and 18. DM WATCH LIMITED

• Improved evidence-based WASH and disaster-resilience planning by assessing 240 households, 60 WASH facilities, 10 FGDs, and 15 KIIs, using quantitative and qualitative analysis to identify infrastructure gaps, service vulnerabilities, maintenance needs, and priorities for community-based disaster preparedness.

Work for: Save the Children, funded by C & A Foundation

Position: Deputy Project Manager

• Evaluated urban resilience to flooding and disaster risks through a 5-year program review covering DRR, preparedness, evacuation, emergency response, policy advocacy, and institutional capacity, with emphasis on community resilience to urban water-related hazards.

• Quantified resilience outcomes and intervention value using the Sendai Framework, OECD-DAC criteria, Value-for-Money, SROI, and 4E econometric analysis, combining quantitative and qualitative evidence to prioritize resilient urban water and infrastructure investments.

Work for: CARE, funded by USAID

Position: Deputy Project Manager

• Identified suitable locations for 50 multipurpose disaster shelters in hard-to-reach hilly communities by integrating GIS-based suitability analysis, environmental screening, and field assessments to evaluate terrain, accessibility, community exposure, and water-service considerations.

• Improved disaster-resilient water access for vulnerable communities by assessing water-supply availability, site-level water constraints, drainage, and environmental conditions through GIS analysis, on-site observations, IEE/EIA/ESIA, and mixed mrethod assessments to inform shelter planning, design, and operation.

Work for: German Red Cross

Position: Deputy Project Manager

• Contingency plan for earthquake & multiple hazards, Short and long-term response plan, Evacuation route planning, Multilayer disaster preparedness, Emergency situation management, GIS mapping

• Route optimization, Design of standard operation procedure (SOP), Govt. endorsement, Policy advocacy with Government.

Work for: Implementation Monitoring & Evaluation Department, Government of Bangladesh

Position: Research Associate

• OECD-DAC framework (relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, impact and sustainability), SWOT analysis (Strength, Weakness, Opportunity, Threat)

• Probability sampling, Both quantitative & qualitative data collection, Advanced data analysis through machine learning models in python

Work for: Habitat for Humanity, funded by Korea International Co-operation Agency (KOICA)

Position: Research Associate

• Climate adaptive housing, Environmental appropriateness of housing materials, WaSH intervention, KAP study, DRR, Sustainability

• Quantitative and qualitative methods, Advanced data analysis, Triangulation

Work for: UNDP (United Nations Development Programme) 

Position: Research Associate

• Water and sanitation coverage, Mainstreaming existing status with WHO and JMP framework, Scoping of Private sector investment opportunities, Business model designing

• SWOT analysis, PESTEL framework, Quantitative and Qualitative research design.

Work for : UNDP, Embassy of Denmark

Position: Research Associate

• Sustainable Agriculture, Food Security, and climate resilient livelihood of the people of CHT region

• OECD-DAC framework, mixed method, 3 Districts, 26 Upazilas, 105 Qual & 3000 Quant.

Work for: DM WATCH (self funded study)

Position: Research Associate

• Analyzing existing bio-medical waste management, chain analysis, disposal system. 

• Finding policy and practice gap, suggesting sustainable model and policy advocacy with government of Bangladesh to revise the policy and act. 

Work for : Dr. H.M Rasel (Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, RUET)

Position: Research Assistant

• Understanding the current status of groundwater levels and associated geological conditions, and determining critical zones, recharging paths, and changing the nature of the Barind topology.

• Forecasting future groundwater levels and critical zones and sustainable management practices of the Agri-heritage zone.