I am a PhD candidate in Environmental Engineering at Arizona State University, expecting to graduate by December 2025. I did my BSc. in Water Resources Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) and MS in Civil Engineering from Tennessee Technological University. My core expertise or interest area includes wastewater de facto reuse, national PFAS occurrence, groundwater data imputation, watershed hydrologic modeling (HECHMS/SWAT), hydrodynamic modeling (HECRAS), urban stormwater modeling (SWMM), ArcGIS, AutoCAD, Python/R/Matlab, Google Earth Engine, Remote Sensing, Wastewater Engineering, and Water quality modeling.

• I am working as Graduate Research Associate (GRA) in Paul Westerhoff lab at Arizona State University. My research focus is DRINCS (De Facto Reuse Incidence in Nation's Consumable Supply) modeling. I started working here in August 2020. URL: https://westerhoff.engineering.asu.edu/people/ , https://steps-center.org/our-team/minhazul-islam/ 

  • WRF 5082 - PFAS Incidence Moeling Project using GIS Applications

  • STEPS - Science and Technologies for Phosphorus Sustainability

• I worked as a Graduate Research Assistant in Tennessee Technological University. I started working here from 09/01/18. My research goal is, “Developing a GIS based tool to delineate highway grass median”. Here I am working on Arc-GIS tool development using python programming language. Official research team web link: https://www.techwarms.org/team 

• I worked as a Research Assistant in Institute of Water & Flood Management (IWFM) Dhaka, Bangladesh, from 02/01/18 to 07/31/18. My project title was: “Flash Flood Forecasting and Early Warning System in North-East region of Bangladesh”. My working role in that project was performing Bias correction of the TRMM (Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission) rainfall data using available ground station information. I mostly used R programming and Linux operating system in this project. Official research team web link: https://ffews.github.io/about.html 

• I worked as a Research Assistant in Center for Climate Change and Environmental Research (C3ER), BRAC University Dhaka, Bangladesh, from October 2017 to December 2017. My project title was “Feasibility Study of River Halda”. My working role in that project was to work on SWAT (Soil and Water Assessment Tool) model for assessing the fish breeding condition of carp fish in river Halda. Web link of the organization: https://www.bracu.ac.bd/academics/centres-and-initiatives/c3er 

• • National occurrence of wastewater de facto reuse

  • PFAS incidence in national drinking water sources (WRF - 5082)

  • Groundwater data imputation

  • National scale phosphorus budget mapping (STEPS)

• WesterhoffLab

• STEPS

• NEWTCENTER

• TECHWARMS

• PhD in Environmental Engineering at Arizona State University (Graduation Plan: Fall 2025)

• MS in Civil Engineering at Tennessee Technological University (Graduation Year: 2020)

• Bachelor of Science in Water Resources Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology Dhaka, Bangladesh (Graduation Year: 2017)

1. Ruyle, B.J., Pennoyer, E.H., Vojta, S., Becanova, J., Islam, M., Webster, T.F., Heiger-Bernays, W., Lohmann, R., Westerhoff, P., Schaefer, C.E. and Sunderland, E.M., 2025. High organofluorine concentrations in municipal wastewater affect downstream drinking water supplies for millions of Americans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(3), p.e2417156122. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2417156122 

2. Baker, J., Schunk, N., Scholz, M., Merck, A., Muenich, R.L., Westerhoff, P., Elser, J.J., Duckworth, O.W., Gatiboni, L., Islam, M. and Marshall, A.M., 2024. Global-to-Local Dependencies in Phosphorus Mass Flows and Markets: Pathways to Improving System Resiliency in Response to Exogenous Shocks. Environmental Science & Technology Letters, 11(6), pp.493-502. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.estlett.4c00208 

3. Ahmed, K.J., Oyshi, J.T., Islam, M., Rashid, M.B., Atiqul Haq, S.M. and Tasneem, N., 2024. Comparing household heads’ perception of climate change variability with meteorological trends and understanding mitigation measures to combat the adverse effects in coastal areas of Bangladesh. SN Social Sciences, 4(9), p.168. https://doi.org/10.1007/s43545-024-00971-0 

4. Mahmood, A.U., Islam, M. (Co-first Author), Gulyuk, A.V., Briese, E., Velasco, C.A., Malu, M., Sharma, N., Spanias, A., Yingling, Y.G. and Westerhoff, P., 2024. Multiple Data Imputation Methods Advance Risk Analysis and Treatability of Co-occurring Inorganic Chemicals in Groundwater. Environmental Science & Technology, 58(46), pp.20513-20524. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.4c05203 

5. Islam, M., Thompson, K., Dickenson, E., Quiñones, O., Steinle-Darling, E. and Westerhoff, P., 2023. Sucralose and Predicted De Facto Wastewater Reuse Levels Correlate with PFAS Levels in Surface Waters. Environmental Science & Technology Letters, 10(5), pp.431-438. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.estlett.3c00185 

6. Saha, P., Islam, M., Oyshi, J.T., Khanum, R. and Nishat, A., 2020. A sustainability analysis on the trends and frequency of the channel flow of a carp breeding river against human interventions and governing public–private partnership (PPP) as adaptation. SN Applied Sciences, 2, pp.1-17. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42452-020-2766-4 

7. Saha, P., Islam, M., Oyshi, J.T., Khanum, R. and Nishat, A., 2019. A sustainability study of the flow regulation impacts by dams in a carp breeding river using the hydrodynamic model and building block analysis. SN Applied Sciences, 1(11), p.1429. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42452-019-1417-0

1. Islam, M., 2020. Development of GIS-Based Algorithm to Delineate Median Vegetated Swales Along Highways in Putnam County, Tennessee (Master's thesis, Tennessee Technological University). 

2. Islam, M., 2017. Assessment of stormwater runoff from the western part of Chittagong city using GeoSWMM (B. Sc. thesis, Department of Water Resources Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh).

1. Islam, M., Solis, J., Earl, S., Westerhoff, P., 2025. Decennial Phosphorus Dynamics in Central Arizona Phoenix – Long-Term Ecological Research (CAP- LTER) Site. 27th Central Arizona-Phoenix Long-Term Ecological Research (CAP-LTER) Program Annual All Scientists Meeting and Poster Symposium.

2. Saha, A., Islam, M., Muenich, R., Earl, S., Obeneour, D., Morrison, E., Nelson, N. and Westerhoff, P., 2024. Development of an Urban Watershed Modeling Framework for Arid Regions Using SWAT. American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) Annual International Meeting 2024.

3. Islam, M., Solis, J., Earl, S., Westerhoff, P., 2024. Decennial (2000-2020) P Flow Dynamics in CAP LTER. AZ Water Research Symposium, March 22 (2024).

4. Islam, M., Saha, A., Muenich, R.L. and Westerhoff, P., 2023, December. Unlocking the Potential of Wastewater Treatment Plants for Phosphorus Recovery: Identifying Optimal Locations for Technology Implementation and Fertilizer Production. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts (Vol. 2023, No. 158, pp. H13K-158).

5. Islam, M. and Westerhoff, P., 2022. DRINCS: A GIS-based model that is used to predict de facto reuse, nutrient recovery and PFAS risk analysis. In: Water Quality Technology Conference - WQTC 2022.

6. Islam, M., Muenich, R.L., and Westerhoff, P., 2022, December. Quantifying the Potential Phosphorus Recovery from Municipal Wastewater Across the Contiguous United States. In Fall Meeting 2022. AGU.

7. Islam, M. and Westerhoff, P., 2021, December. Microbial Risk Assessment Informed by De Facto Reuse at Public Drinking Water Systems Across Contiguous United States. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts (Vol. 2021, pp. H32J-06).

8. Islam, M., Cunniungham, T., Snigdha, N.J. and Kalyanapu, A., 2019. Reservoir Routing Model for Cane Creek Lake, Cookeville, TN. In: Tennessee American Water Resources Association (TNAWRA) Symposium 2019.

9. Saha, P., Tasneem, J., Islam, M., Khanum, R. and Nishat, A., 2019. Assessment of flow regulation impacts by dams in Halda river using hydrological and hydrodynamic modelling. In: 7th International Conference on Water and Flood Management-ICWFM 2019.

10. Islam, M. and Mahmood, F., 2017. Analysis of Intense Rainfall Runoff and Water Logging in Recent Years Due to Drainage Congestion in Chittagong City Using Hydrological Model. In: International Conference on Disaster Risk Mitigation (ICDRM 2017).

1. Bangladesh Students Association Arizona State University (BSA-ASU)

   • Cultural Secretary (2022-2023)

2. Bangladesh Students Association of Tennessee Tech University (BSA-TTU)

   • Treasurer (2019-2020)

1. Putnam County Clean-up Program in Tennessee

   • Contributed in both 2018 and 2019. Awarded for the contribution in 2019 from the city Mayor.

   • Herald-Citizen featured our work in 2019.

2. H2GO Fab Friday at Tennessee Tech University

   • Teaching school kids about Water Supply System

1. Computer Skills:

   • Programming Languages: C++, MATLAB, R, Python

   • Operating Systems: Windows, Linux, Mac OS

   • Hydraulic and hydrologic modeling: HEC-RAS, HEC-HMS, SWMM, SWAT

   • Design Software: AutoCAD

   • MS Office

   • GIS Software: Arc-GIS, QGIS

2. Language Skills:

   • Bengali

   • English

1. Music

2. Long-distance running

3. Hiking

4. Vlogging

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Email: mislam23@asu.edu / minhazulislam919@gmail.com