I am a Water Resources Engineer, currently pursuing a PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering (with a focus on Water Resources Engineering) at the University of Virginia, USA. My PhD research is focused on improving street-scale flood prediction by integrating physics-based models and physics equations with ML models for real-time transportation decision-making. My research specifically explores Surrogate Modeling, Transfer Learning, and Physics-Informed Machine Learning for street-scale nuisance flood forecasting in Norfolk, Virginia.

• Hydrology    

• Hydroinformatics

• Flood Modeling

• AI and Machine Learning

• Climate Change

Ph.D. in  Civil and Environmental Engineering (tentative, May 2026)

with Graduate Certification in Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) 

University of Virginia, USA
Advisor: Prof. Jonathan L. Goodall | GPA: 4.0/4.0

M.Sc. in Water Resources Engineering, 2019

Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology, Bangladesh
Advisor: Prof. Sabbir Mustafa Khan | GPA: 3.92/4.0
Dissertation Title: A Study on Fluvial Flood Hazard and Risk Assessment of the Arial Khan River Floodplain under Future Climate Change Scenarios

B.Sc. in Water Resources Engineering, 2015

Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology, Bangladesh
Advisor: Prof. Anika Yunus | GPA: 3.85/4.0
Dissertation Title: A Study on Hydrodynamic and Morphological Behavior of Padma River using DELFT3D Model

• Endowed Graduate Fellowship, UVA | 2023

• Bicentennial Fellowship and Distinguished Fellowship, UVA | 2020

• University Merit Scholarship, BUET | 2012

• Dean List Scholarship, BUET | 2012, 2013, 2014

• I successfully defended my PhD Dissertation Proposal and became a PhD candidate! (May 2025) 

• My first paper from my PhD research, entitled “Forecasting Multi-Step-Ahead Street-Scale Nuisance Flooding using a seq2seq LSTM Surrogate Model for Real-Time Application in a Coastal-Urban City,” got published in the Journal of Hydrology! (Jan 2025)

• My second co-authored paper in UVA, entitled "Quantifying the Impact of Climate Change on Peak Stream Discharge for Watersheds of Varying Sizes in the Coastal Plain of Virginia," has been accepted in the ASCE Journal of Hydraulic Engineering! (Mar 2024)

• I was awarded the Endowed Graduate Fellowship 2023 from the University of Virginia's School of Engineering and Applied Science! (Sep 2023)

• My first co-authored paper in UVA, entitled "Comparing Containerization-based Approaches for Reproducible Computational Modeling of Environmental Systems," got published in the Journal of Environmental Modeling and Software! (Jun 2023)

• I completed the first milestone of my PhD journey and passed my Qualifying Exam with a good recommendation! (May 2023)