NATIONAL SPEAKERS
Dr. Naveed Ahmad
Dr. Naveed Ahmad, currently working as a Professor in Department of Civil Engineering UET Taxila. Dr. Ahmad has done his PhD and Post-doctorate from the University of Nottingham, UK. He has worked as a key member for the development of “Taxila Institute of Transportation Engineering (TITE)” at CED UET Taxila. He also has worked as a Focal Person in various International Research Collaboration between TITE, UET Taxila and Hasselt University Belgium. He remained Member in joint consortium (NHA, NUST, UET Lahore, and UET Taxila) for improvement of asphalt mix design technology for Pakistan and delivered several invited talks/lectures to organizations like NHA and FWO on the subject of Transportation Engineering. He remained a member in Panel of Experts for Government’s five-year action plan for technical co-operation in Highway Engineering between China and Pakistan. His areas of expertise are: Study of surface properties and interfacial adhesion, characteristics of pavement materials, effects of material modifications on their adhesive bond strength, and moisture sensitivity of these materials.
Dr. Rizwan Farooqui
Prof. Rizwan Farooqui is serving as Professor and Co-Chair at the Department of Civil Engineering, NED University, Pakistan. He has a Ph.D. degree in Construction Engineering and Management from Florida International University USA; an MS degree in Structural and Construction Engineering from National University of Singapore; and a B.E. degree in Civil Engineering from NED University. Prof. Farooqui has over 20 years of research, teaching and construction industry experience in the USA, Pakistan, Singapore, Dubai, Qatar and Ethiopia. Few of his major accomplishments include: Development and implementation of a construction process re-engineering model for Ethiopian Construction Industry; Development of a strategic model for improvement of construction project management education, research and practice in Pakistan (a Pak-US collaborative grant), development of the M. Eng. Program in Engineering Management (with specializations in construction management and industrial engineering management) for NED University; and development of the B. Eng. Program in Construction Engineering for NED University.
Dr. Khan Zaib Jadoon
Prof. Dr. Khan Zaib Jadoon is currently working as a Professor and Head of the Department in Civil Engineering at International Islamic University Islamabad, Pakistan. He received his PhD in the field of Water Resources Engineering from Université Catholique de Louvain, (UCL) Belgium. Dr. Jadoon is leading the water resources engineering research group and supervising a research team focuses on interdisciplinary cutting-edge research and innovation in surface and groundwater hydrology. His areas of special interests revolve around groundwater and hydrogeophysics, from unsaturated zone hydrology to aquifer storage and recovery, and use of non-invasive geophysical methods to monitor subsurface flow and transport processes. He remained an active team member in different internationally funded research projects. Dr. Jadoon worked in different capacities including PI, Co-PI as well as collaborator in projects involving HEC funded NCGSA, NRPU projects and international funders such as BMBF Germany, Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany, LBNL USA and Saudi national grant. Dr. Jadoon is a member of Environmental and Engineering Geophysical Society (EEGS), European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE) and as a senior Program Evaluator (PEV) of Pakistan Engineering Council for OBE. He has published more than 70 peer-reviewed articles in journals and international conferences proceedings, having cumulative impact factor of around 100 with H-index of 15.
Dr. Khan Shahzada
Prof. Dr. Khan Shahzada is currently working at the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Engineering & Technology, Peshawar. He has done his Ph.D. in Structural/Earthquake Engineering from the same university. His specialization is Seismic Risk Assessment of Buildings, Vulnerability Assessment of unreinforced and confined masonry buildings, Hazard assessment, Development of fragility curves for different types of buildings, and risk assessment of existing buildings. He has published a book on SEISMIC RISK ASSESSMENT OF BUILDINGs also.
Dr. Saqib Ehsan
Prof. Dr. Saqib Ehsan is a prominent expert and research scholar in the domain of Water Resources Engineering, currently rendering his services as Professor (Civil Engineering) at NFC Institute of Engineering & Fertilizer Research, Faisalabad Pakistan (affiliated with the UET Lahore). After graduating in Civil Engineering from UET Lahore in April 2002, he completed his MSc in Water Resources Engineering & Management in November 2004 and PhD in Civil Engineering (with specialization in Hydraulic Engineering) in March 2009 at Stuttgart University, Germany.
He has valuable experience of teaching and research both at undergraduate and postgraduate level. He has total teaching/research experience of more than 20 years including more than 13 years’ experience at post-PhD level.
His areas of interest/expertise are; Risk Analysis of Hydraulic Structures, Disaster Management, Water Resources Management, Hydraulic Engineering, Hydrology, Hydrogeology/Groundwater Management, Flood Control, Floodplain Management, River Engineering, Numerical Modeling and Rehabilitation of Structures.
In addition to his multiple research papers in refereed/indexed journals and conferences/workshops, he has also published a Book (International Edition) titled as: "Evaluation of Life Safety Risks Related to Severe Flooding". He is reviewer of many national and international journals. He is also member of various national and international professional organizations/associations. Currently he is actively engaged in various collaborative research projects in the domain of Civil Engineering funded by foreign institutions.
Dr. Salah Uddin
Dr. Salah Uddin joined Balochistan UET Khuzdar as Lecturer. He had awarded with a fully funded scholarship through Higher Education Commission Faculty development program worth Rs. 10 Million. After completion of PhD in geotechnical engineering from university of Nottingham, he continued teaching. Currecntly he is serving as Associate Professor and Head of Civil Engineering department. He has strong administrative experience in academic management. He is also advisor to Vice Chancellor on Civil works and Chairman Procurement Committee. His core research expertise is related with various Geo-Technical Engineering related problems.
Dr Muhammad Javed Iqbal
Associate Professor Dr. Muhammad Jawed Iqbal is currently working as Director Academics and Head of Transportation Engineering Department at National Institute of Transportation, a constituent institute of National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Pakistan. Dr. Jawed has more than 25 years of experience in various disciplines of Civil Engineering. His research interest includes Traffic Safety, Transportation Master Planning, Mass Transit Planning, Transportation Management, Congestion Management, Highway Design and Road Safety Audit. Dr. Jawed has taught traffic engineering and geometric design courses at MS and PhD level and carried out research to more than 25 students. He has number of publications to his credit and has published his research in journals of international repute. Dr Jawed also attended postgraduate course in Disaster Management from AIT, Thailand. He is member of various professional engineering bodies.
Dr. Shamsher Sadiq
Dr. Shamsher Sadiq is an alumni of the MUET and currently serving as Assistant Professor at Department of Civil Engineering, Mirpur University of Science and Technology (MUST), Azad Kashmir. He earned Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering (Major: Geotechnical Engineering) from Hanyang University, South Korea and B.E. degree in Civil Engineering from Mehran UET Jamshoro.
He is currently working in range of areas: Energy Geotechniques, Soil-Structure-Interaction, Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering, Numerical Modeling in Geomechanics, Seismic Hazard Analysis and Ground Response Analysis, Tunneling in Soil and Rock and Landslide Hazard Assessment.
He has also been involved in various R & D projects in South Korea, US and Pakistan. Currently, he is a PI and Co-PI of two HEC funded projects involving the development of seismic site amplification factors and amplification model for shallow bed rock sites of Pakistan.