Graduate

Completed

• Supervisor: Granular Carbon for NOM and DBP Removal, M.Eng. Thesis, Afsoon Taghizadehgan, January 2019.
• Supervisory Committee: Biosurfectant Enhanced Bioremediation of Petroleum Hydrocarbon and Heavy Metal Cocontaminated Soil in Harsh Environments, Zhiwen Zhu, PhD Thesis, Faculty of Engineering, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Ocotber 2018.
• Supervisor: Photochemical air quality modeling in arid regions, Mujtaba Shareef, PhD Thesis, Faculty of Engineering, Memorial University of Newfoundland, May 2017.
• Supervisor: Recycling, reuse, and resource recovery from fly ash, Jingjing Ling, M.Eng.Thesis, Faculty of Engineering, Memorial University of Newfoundland April 2017.
• Supervisor: Recovery of vanadium and nickel from oil fly ash, Joabin Liu, M.Eng.Thesis, Faculty of Engineering, Memorial University of Newfoundland April 2017.
• Supervisor: Low Cost Adsorbent for Arsenic Removal from Drinking Water Supply, M.Eng. Thesis, Jabvid Shadbahr November 2017.
• Co-supervisor: Development of Environmentally Safe Drilling Fluids, Monuara Bagum, since May 2016, Master Thesis in Environmental Science, April 2018.
• Co-supervisor: SRB, NRB and Their Interaction in a Souring Offshore Oil Reservoir System, PhD Thesis, Fuqiang Fan , July 2018.
• Member: Producedwater treatment technology development, Jing Ping, PhD Thesis, Faculty of Engineering, Memorial University of Newfoundland, April 2016.
• Co-supervisor: Use of bluegreen algae to improve the chemical quality of municipal solid waste compost, Yujiao Wang, M.Eng.Thesis, Faculty of Engineering, Memorial University of Newfoundland March 2015.
• Supervisor: Environmental Management and Potential Use of Oil Fly Ash, Abdullah Mofarrah, PhD Thesis, Faculty of Engineering, Memorial University of Newfoundland May 2014.
• Member: Development of an integrated decision support system for supporting offshore oil spill response in harsh environments, Pu Li, PhD Thesis, Faculty of Engineering, Memorial University of Newfoundland, April 2014.
• Supervisor: Affordable Filtration Technology of Safe Drinking Water for Rural Newfoundland and Labrador, Masood Ahmad, M.Eng. Thesis, 2013.
• Supervisor: Tunnel Air quality modelining- Souk As Saghir Tunnel in Makkah City Yasser Matbouli, M. Eng. student, 2010.
• Co-supervisor: Sensor Network for Forest Fire Detection, Al-Abbas Al-Habashna, M. Eng. student, 2009.
• Supervisor: Urban air quality impact assessment for petrochemical industries, M. Eng. Thesis, Afsana Khandoker, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2009.
• Supervisor: Probabilistic Human Health Risk Assessment from Offshore Produced Water, M.Eng. Thesis, Mohammad Khaled H. Chowdhury, 2009.
• Supervisor: Patitioning of PAHs in water columnt, Nahla Ahmad, M.Eng.Thesis, Nahla Mahmoud, June 2009.
• Co-supervisor: An Integrated Fuzzy-stochastic Risk Assessment Method for Air Pollution Problem, M.Eng., Jing Ping, 2008.
• Co-supervisor: Development of An Adaptive Neural Fuzzy Classification Approach, M.Eng., Pu Li, since 2009.
• Supervisor: Decision Making Tool for Produced Water Management: An Application of Multicriteria Decision Making Approach, M.Eng. Thesis, Abdullah Mofarrah, Memorial University of Newfoundland, October 2008.
• Supervisor: Modeling and Plume Tracking Study of a Newfoundland Coastal Outfall , M. Eng. Thesis, Jihad Shanaa, September 2008.
• Supervisor: Development and validation of hydrodynamic model for Produced water Waste Discharge, Ph.D. Thesis, Haibo Niu, January 2008.
• Supervisor: Feasibility Study on Water Bottling in Newfoundland, M. Eng. Thesis, Anisur Rahman, Memorial University of Newfoundland, May 2007.
• Supervisor: Impact of Climate Change on Human health in the Coastal Gulf Region, M.Eng. Thesis, Junaid A. Chaudharyn Memorial University of Newfoundland, April 2007.
• Supervisor: Evaluation of Uncertainties in MOFAT under Tier III RBCA Process, Ph.D. Thesis by Amir A. Khan Memorial University of Newfoundland, December 2005.
• Supervisor: Decision Supoort Software for Produced water Discharges, M. Eng. Thesis, Md. Shakhawat Hossain Chowdhury, June 2004.
• Supervisor: Mechanism of Formation of Disinfectant by Products in Drinking Water Supply, M. Eng. Thesis, Rajya Lakshmi Kolla, December 2004.
• Supervisor: Remediation of Hydrocarbon Contaminated Site- Tier 3 Modeling and Validation, M. Eng. Thesis, Marion Organ, September 2004.
• Co-supervisor: Plume rise modeling in Ciastal Areas, M. Eng. Thesis, Mudassir Nazir, Memorial University of Newfoundland , August 2004.
• Supervisor: Experimental Investigation of Drilling Fluid Discharge Modeling in Marine System, M. Eng. Thesis by Haibo Niu , March 2003.
• Supervisor: Environmental Effects of Multi-stage Desalination Flash (MSF) Desalination Plant at Al-Jubail, Saudi Arabia, M. Eng. Thesis by Mansoor Ahmad , September 2002.
• Supervisor: Oily Sludge Degradation Study Under Arid Conditions using a Combination of Landfarming and Innovative Technology, Ph.D. Thesis by Ramzi Hejazi, Memorial University of Newfoundland. March 2002.
• Supervisor: Ecological Risk Assessment of Drilling Mud Discharge in Ocean Water, Ph.D. Thesis by Rehan Sadiq, Memorial University of Newfoundland, December 2001.
• Supervisor: Hydrodynamic Modeling and Ecological Risk Assessment of Produced Water Discharge from Offshore Platform, Ph.D. Thesis by Mukhtasor, Memorial University of Newfoundland, May 2001.
• Supervisor: Trihalomethane in Drinking Water - Human Health Risk Assessment, M. Eng. Thesis, by Sudip Kar, Memorial University of Newfoundland , January 2000.
• Supervisor: Environmental Effect of Thermal Power Plant Emissions-A case Study, M. Eng. Thesis, by Ejaz Memon, Memorial University of Newfoundland, August 2000.
• Supervisor: Human Health and Ecological Impact from Desalination Activities: A Case Study of Jubail Desalination Plant M. Eng. Thesis by Mansour Ahmad, Memorial University of Newfoundland, June 2003.
• Co-supervisor: Payload Design and Offshore Environmental Monitoring using Autonomous Underwater Vehicle, M.Eng. Thesis, Vanessa Pennell, June 2002.
• Co-supervisor: Multi-objective Water resources Planning under Uncertain Demand and Supply, M. Eng. Thesis. Civil Engineering Department, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, May 1998.
• Member: Airshed Modeling, Ph.D. Thesis by Suhail Mustafa Khan, Griffith University, Australia, December 2000.
• Member: Effect of Ground water Velocity and Dissolved Oxygen on Bioremediation of Gasoline Contaminated Sandy Aquifer, Ph.D. Thesis, Niaz Mohammad, Water Resources and Environment Division, The Research Institute, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, 1993.
• Member: Estimation of Ground water Resources of Wadi Al-Miyah, Eastern Saudi Arabia by Ayaz Husain, MS Thesis, Earth Science Department, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, 1994.
• Co-supervisor: Numerical Evaluation of the Factors Causing Ground water Depletion in Al-Hassa Area, Jamal A. Nejem, MS Thesis, Department of Civil Engineering, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, 1992.
• Member: Collocation on Irregular Domains with Adaptive Hermit Element Family with Transport Problem, Mohammad Ali Bhuiyan, Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Civil Engineering, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, June 1989.
• Co-supervisor: Treatise on Solute Transport in Porous Media and Its Modeling for Concentration-Dependent Permeability, Ph.D. Thesis, Abu Nasser Khondaker, Department of Civil Engineering, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, August 1991.
• Co-supervisor: Investigation of Leachate from a Sanitary Landfill in Saudi Arabia by Ramzi Fouad Hejazi, MS Thesis, Department of Civil Engineering, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, June 1989.
• Co-supervisor: Use of Micro-tubes in the Design of Optimized Trickle Irrigation Network by Mohammed A. Ibrahim, MS Thesis, Department of Civil Engineering, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, February 1989.
• Co-supervisor: Status of Hydrological Network in South-western Region of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia by A. Al-Zahrani, MS Thesis, Department of Civil Engineering, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, August 1989.
• Co-supervisor: Flood Percentile Determination for Flood Hydrograph in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, MS Thesis, Department of Civil Engineering, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, September 1989.
• Co-supervisor: Reliability Studies of Multipurpose Reservoir System using Stochastic Approach by Jamaldeen M. Esuf Lebbe, MS Thesis, Department of Civil Engineering, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, 1991.
• Supervisor: Systems Approach to Educational Planning, Master of Business Administration Thesis, College of Business Administration, Aligarh Muslim University, India, 1975.
• Supervisor: Application of Dynamic Programming to Wastewater Treatment System, MS Thesis, Department of Civil Engineering, Aligarh Muslim University, India, 1974.
• Supervisor: Development of Computer Package on Multi-purpose, Multi-reservoir Operating Policy using Dynamic Programming, MS Thesis, Computer Science Department, Aligarh Muslim University, India, 1974.
• Supervisor: Application of Queuing Theory in Hospital Management, MS Thesis, Computer Science Department, Aligarh Muslim University, India, 1974.

In Progress

• Supervisor: Natural Organic Matters and Disinfection By-products in Drinking Water in Rural Water Supply System, PhD Thesis, Hoda Tafvizi, since January 2016.
• Supervisor: Oil/water Separtion Technology, PhD Thesis, Environmental Science, Mohammed Alskit since November 2018.
• Supervisor: superhydrophilic filter for on-site oil spill response, M.Eng. Thesis. Elaheh Vaziri since September 2020.

Post Doctoral Fellows

• 2020 - Present, Zahra A. Tabasi, Postdoctoral Fellow, MPRI DFO Funded Project.
• 2018 - Present, Jiabin Liu, Research Engineer and Project Manager, MPRI DFO Funded Project.
• 2015 - Present, He Zhang, Research Engineer, RDC Collaborative R&D project.
• 2019 - 2020, Suboohi Shervani, Postdoctoral Fellow, MPRI DFO Funded Project.
• 2018 - 2019, Jingjing Ling, Research Engineer, MPRI DFO Funded Project October 2018-Feb 2019.
• 2016 - 2018, Jiabin Liu, Research Engineer and Project Manager, Saudi Electricity Company Project.
• 2015 - 2016, Aezeden Mohammad, Research Associate, Saudi Electricity Company Project.
• 2011, Shakhawat Chowdhury, Visitng Researcher, Development of Predictive Models for Disinfection by-roducts and Filtration Technology for Small Community Water Systems.
• 2007 - 2008, Chefi Ketata, Research Associate, Evaluation of Soil Pollution Inside and Around Mahd Adh Dhahab Mine.
• 2006 - 2008, Niaz Mohammad, Postdoctoral Fellow (PDF), Decision Support Ssytem for Offoshore Produced Water Management.
• 2000 - 2003, Faisal Khan, Visting Research Professor, Risk-based Corrective Action for Hydrocarbon Contaminated Sites.
• 1997 - 1999, Abigail Steels, Research Engineer, Development of Environmental Laboratory.