Mr. Muhammad Zohaib

Designation                        Assistant Professor                                                        

Email ID(s)                          [email protected]                                                        

Contact #                             0322-5127076                                                    

Profile Summary

Highly skilled and results-oriented professional majoring in water resources engineering. Research focused on the use of remote sensing for various applications such as agriculture, water resources, hydrology, hydrological modeling, impact of climate change on water resources and environment, and monitoring, evaluation, and prediction of water-related disasters such as flood and drought.

Qualification
Sr. NoDegreeUniversityYear
1P.hDSungkyunkwan University, South Korea2020
2MSN/A (Combined MS-PhD program)
3BSUET Peshawar2013

Teaching Experience
Sr. NoDesignationUniversityYear
FromTo
1Assistant ProfessorNational University of TechnologyMay 2021to-date

Industrial Experience
Sr. NoDesignationIndustryYear
FromTo
1Senior Research AnalystUrban Unit, LahoreSep. 2020May 2021
2Irrigation EngineerMithaq EnterprisesAug. 2013Feb. 2015
Sr. NoMembership TypeMembership Body
1Registered EngineerPakistan Engineer Council

Honors and Awards
Sr. NoAwardYear
1HEC HRDI- FACULTY DEVELOPMENT OF UESTPS-UETS2015
2Merit Scholarships - UET Peshawar2009-2013

Research Areas/Interests
Sr. NoAreaDescription
1Remote SensingUse of remote sensing technology to monitor and assess water resources and environmental parameters and related natural disasters
2Water ResourcesHydrological and hydrulics modeling, sediment and soil erosions, and rainwater harvesting

Journal Publications
Sr. NoJournal NamePublication Title with I.FYear
1Journal of Water and Climate ChangeAssessment of the morphological trends and sediment dynamics in the Indus River, Pakistan (1.254)2021
2Remote SensingAssessment of merged satellite precipitation datasets in monitoring meteorological drought over Pakistan (4.509)2021
3Science of the Total EnvironmentSatellite-based global-scale irrigation water use and its contemporary trends (6.551)2020
4Science of the Total EnvironmentDetecting globa irrigated areas by using satellite and reanalysis products (6.551)2019
5Journal of Arid EnvironmentAgricultural drought assessment based on multiple soil moisture products (1.830)2019
6Stochastic Environment Research and Risk AssessmentSpatial disaggregation of ASCAT soil moisture under all sky condition using support vector machine (2.351)2018
7Remote Sensing of EnvironmentGlobal-scale assessment and combination of SMAP with ASCAT (active) and AMSR2 (passive) soil moisture products (9.085)2018
8Journal of Geophysical Research - AtmosphereEvaluating the patterns of spatiotemporal trends of root zone soil moisture in major climate regions in East Asia (3.821)2017
9Advances in MeteorologyDevelopment and assessment of the sand dust prediction model by utilizing microwave-based satellite soil moisture and reanalysis datasets in East Asia desert areas (1.48)2017

Conference Publications
Sr. NoConference NamePublication TitleYear
1AGU Fall MeetingQuantification of irrigation water consumption using remote sensing dataset in Korean peninsula2019
2International Symposium on Remote SensingDetection of Global Irrigation Region from satellite and assimilation soil moisture datasets2018
3Hydrology Delivers Earth System Sciences to Society 4Understanding the Land-Atmosphere coupling in East Asia through Satellite and Assimilation soil moisture datasets2017
412th International Conference on HydroinformaticsSatellite-based Soil Moisture Retrievals for Sand Dust Prediction in East Asian Desert Areas2016
5International Symposium on Remote SensingAsian Dust Trend Analysis over East Asia using Satellite and Land Surface Assimilation Datasets2016