George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA

Department of Civil, Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering

Dissertation Title: Assessing the Utility of Satellite Observations to Improve Model Simulations of Sea Water Levels

Advisor: Dr. Viviana Maggioni

George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA

Department of Civil, Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering

Dissertation Title: Investigating the hydrologic vulnerabilities of Food-Energy-Water Nexus of Culpeper, VA

Advisor: Dr. Viviana Maggioni

Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Department of Water Resources Engineering, Faculty of Civil Engineering

Dissertation Title: Hydrologic modeling of extreme flooding at Brahmaputra River using HEC-RAS

Advisor: Dr. MD. Sabbir Mostafa Khan

George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA

Research Focus:

• Investigate the utility of satellite-based observations in estimating storm-surge induced coastal water level using coastal hydrodynamic modeling

• Demonstrate the significance of applying data assimilation techniques in a storm surge model to simulate coastal water level in high spatial and temporal resolutions

• Explore the optimal setting for merging both nadir-only and wide-swath satellite-based altimetry data for operational and near real-time storm surge estimation

National Water Center, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA

Research Focus:

• Develop and test machine learning (ML) and physics-informed ML for the standards-based, model agnostic, Next Generation Water Resources Modeling Framework

• Apply physics-informed ML models that use neural networks to make time-varying predictions of model parameters

• Improve Conceptual Modeling Framework (CFE) performance in arid regions using superior numerical schemes and data driven approaches

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, USA

Research Focus:

• Volunteered for calibration/validation efforts on NASA Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Mission

• Collected soil moisture data, soil and litter samples at Millbrook, NY

• Participated in vegetation sampling, surface roughness and bulk density data collection

George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA

Hydraulics (lectures and laboratory sessions)

• Instructed lab sessions to demonstrate experiments on hydraulics and fluid mechanics

• Graded assignments and assisted students with conceptualizing the basics of hydraulics

Flood and Riverbank Erosion Risk Management Investment Program (FRERMIP) - Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB) - funded by Asian Development Bank (ADB) Dhaka, Bangladesh

• Processed bathymetric and topographic survey data using ArcGIS, QGIS for analyzing the morphology of Jamuna and Padma River of Bangladesh

• Conducted topographic, bathymetric (multi-beam echo sounder) and float-track survey in the project-relevant areas of Jamuna and Padma River of Bangladesh

• Executed quality control work of geotextile bags used for riverbank protection work

Bhuiyan, S. A., Maggioni, V., Ferreira, C., & Rahman, A. (2024). “A Direct Insertion Technique to Assimilate Sea Surface Height into a Hydrodynamic Model”. Under review Journal of Hydrology: Volume 632, March 2024, 130886, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2024.130886

Bhuiyan, S. A., Maggioni, V., Ferreira, C., Lima, A., Miesse, T., (2024). “A case study on merging nadir-only satellite altimetry data into a storm-surge model”. In preparation Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

AWRA-NCRS Conference | Bhuiyan, S. A., Maggioni, V., Ferreira, C., “Augmenting Coastal Water Level Estimation by Merging Nadir-only Satellite Observations into a Storm Surge Model” | April 2024

AGU Chapman Conference | Bhuiyan, S. A., Maggioni, V., Ferreira, C., “Investigating the Utility of SWOT Fast Sampling Phase into Coastal Hydrodynamic Model” | February 2024

AGU Fall Meeting | Bhuiyan, S. A., Maggioni, V., Ferreira, C., Lima, A., Henke, M., Miesse, T., “Improving Coastal Water Level Estimation through Assimilation of Satellite Observations in Storm Surge Models: A Case Study of Hurricane Arthur” | December 2023

AGU Fall Meeting | Bhuiyan, S. A., Araki, R., Bindas, T., Rapp, J., McMillan, H., Ogden, F., Frame, J., “Representing soil physical processes in Conceptual Framework Equivalent (CFE) through the implementation of Ordinary Differential Equation (ODE)” | December 2023

CEI Luncheon GMU | Bhuiyan, S. A., Maggioni, V., Ferreira, C., Rahman, A., “A Direct Insertion Technique to Assimilate Sea Surface Height in a Storm Surge Model” | March 2023

AGU Fall Meeting | Bhuiyan, S. A., Maggioni, V., Ferreira, C., Rahman, A., “A Direct Insertion Technique to Assimilate Sea Surface Height in a Storm Surge Model” | April 2023

AGU Fall Meeting | Bhuiyan, S. A., Maggioni, V., Ferreira, C., Rahman, A., “A Direct Insertion Technique to Assimilate Sea Surface Height in a Storm Surge Model” | December 2022

Water at Mason Symposium | Bhuiyan, S. A., Maggioni, V., Ferreira, C., Rahman, A., “A Direct Insertion Technique to Assimilate Sea Surface Height in a Storm Surge Model” | October 2022

AGU-Frontiers in Hydrology | Bhuiyan, S. A., Maggioni, V., Ferreira, C., Sharif, R., “A synthetic experiment to evaluate the efficacy of the direct insertion of satellite sea surface height data into a hydrodynamic model” | June 2022

AWRA-NCRS Water Symposium | Bhuiyan, S. A., Maggioni, V., Ferreira, C., Rahman, A., Sharif R., Miesse, T., “Evaluating the Utility of Assimilating Satellite Observations of Sea Water Levels into a Storm Surge Model” | April 2022

AGU Fall Meeting | Bhuiyan, S. A., Maggioni, V., Ferreira, C., Sharif, R., “Improving Coastal Storm Surge and Inundation Forecasts by Assimilating SWOT Products” | December 2021

AGU Fall Meeting | Bhuiyan, S. A., Maggioni, V., Wilkins, R., Bates, O., Turner, H., “FEWS – Designing engineering solutions to address challenges at the Food-Energy-Water nexus in a rural low-income community” | December 2020

International Management program with GMU & Steinbeis | “Assessing the Utility of Satellite Observations to Improve Model Simulations of Sea Water Levels” | May 2024

FUSE Topping Out at Tech Demos | “Improving the coastal water level predictions with satellite” | November 2023

GMU C-RASC Research & GRF Panel at STAR-TIDES Capability Demonstration | “Leveraging the Next NASA Mission to Improve the Monitoring and Forecasting of Coastal Hazards” | March 2023

IDIA AI Innovation Symposium at GMU | “Developing a Data Assimilation Technique to Improve the Monitoring and Forecasting of Coastal Hazards” | November 2022

Intersectional Climate Justice: Calls for Action | “How are oysters changing the way we protect our coastlines?” | October 2022

GMU Summer Research Fellowship | GMU Summer Research Fellowship 2024 | Summer 2024

NOAA National Water Center Summer Institute Fellowship | Summer Institute 2023 | Summer 2023

Graduate Research Fellowship | IDIA Mason 2022 Predoctoral Fellowship | Fall 2022

Graduate Research Assistantship | C-RASC Seed Grant Program 2021 | Summer 2021

Graduate Professional Assistantship | Mason Impact Summer 2020 Term Project | Summer 2020

Python (NetCDF, xarray, GeoPy, GeoPandas, Numpy, SciPy, sklearn, matplotlib, cartopy)

Linux Operating System (Bash Scripting, Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise)

High-Performance Computing (TACC STAMPEDE, GMU ARGO)

GDAL

Matlab

Github

ADCIRC

HEC-RAS

HEC-HMS

ArcGIS

QGIS

Founding Vice President and Treasurer, Graduate Students Association of Civil and Environmental Engineers (GRACE at GMU)

• Helped founding the first graduate student association of GMU CEIE department

• Volunteered in arranging social events for the graduate students of GMU CEIE | 2023 - Present

Member, American Geophysical Union Hydrology Section Student Subcommittee (AGU- H3S), AJEDI Subcommittee and Social Media Subcommittee

• Assisted in arranging workshops and seminars on engaging and educating the hydrologists on diversity, equity and inclusion

• Managed and generated social media content for science engagement for AGU-H3S, administrating the LinkedIn page | 2022 - 2023

Reviewer, Journal of Hydrology (Elsevier) and Nature (Springer) | 2020 - Present

American Geophysical Union (AGU)

American Water Resources Association (AWRA)