Prof. Dr. Engr. Md. Sabbir Mostafa Khan

Dr. Khan’s career has evolved over a duration of 27 years in academia, professional and research arena. After graduating from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) in Civil Engineering in 1996, he joined the Department of Water Resources Engineering (WRE) of the same university in 1997 as a Lecturer. Apart from his teaching responsibilities, he was actively involved in various research projects. He obtained his MS and PhD from UCLA in 2000 and 2004 respectively. During his PhD study, he was engaged in a research work funded by California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) (1999-2004). It was a multiyear program to assess the qualitative and quantitative aspects of storm water runoff from highways in the state of California, USA.

After returning to his native country, Dr. Khan moved up the ladder in BUET and became a Professor in 2010. He was the Chair of the Department of WRE from 2013 – 2015. Dr. Khan has been involved in professional works since 2004. He has completed more than 50 professional projects so far. His field of expertise includes Drainage Modeling, Hydrologic, Hydrodynamic and Morphological Modeling of River and Floodplains, ESIA, and Statistical Analysis of Hydrologic and Climatic Parameters. He has been involved in significant number of research projects mostly through his MS and PhD students. He has supervised more than 35 MS students and 2 PhD students so far. Dr. Khan has worked as Project Coordinator and Project Direct of Nuffic-NICHE BGD 155 Project: Scenario Development in Integrated Water Resources Management: Coping with Future Challenges in Bangladesh. It was a four-year long research project funded by Dutch donor agency Nuffic (2013-2017). He was the Team Leader of 2 Nuffic funded research projects, i.e. 1. Comparison of Various Modeling Software Pertaining to Hydrodynamics and Morphology: Their Scopes and Applicability, and 2. Characterization of Urban Drainage System of Major Cities of Bangladesh using Mathematical Models for Various Climate Change Scenarios.

He worked as a resource person in an Asian Development Bank (ADB) funded Specialist course on River Bank Protection. He worked as a coordinator for BUET in a joint research project with Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences (RCEES), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China. Dr. Khan Worked in the World Bank funded assignment for Bangladesh Bank to update the Environmental and Social Monitoring Framework (ESMF) document of BIFFL, the largest non-banking financial institution of Bangladesh. He has more than 30 publications in Journals and Conference Proceedings.