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Areas of expertise

  • Civil engineering
  • Hydrology and water resources
  • Smart cities and urban informatics
  • Artificial intelligence

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About Muhammad Atiq Ur Rehman Tariq

Based on his outstanding performance in MSc, Dr Atiq earned a full funded PhD scholarship to peruse my PhD (2007-2011) from the world’s top rank university “TU Delft, the Netherlands” (presently ranked number 2 in the field of Civil Engineering). He assisted in teachings as well. He joined COMSATS Institute of Information Technology as Head of the department and established bachelors degree and masters degree programs.

He developed a proposal to establish a Category-II Centre of UNESCO in Pakistan. He joined Capital University of Science and Technology (at that time it was known as Mohammad Ali Jinnah University) in 2014. He endeavored to establish the department with undergraduate and post graduate programs. Multiple research projects, consultancy projects, research collaborations, keynote lectures, workshops, and continual professional development training were carried out. He remained actively involve with the Higher Education Commission and Engineering Council to transform Pakistan’s engineering programs to achieve the Washington Accord status. His role as Outcome-based education expert is evident from the trainings he conducted in various universities as well as the accreditations visit which he conducted as the field expert on behalf of Pakistan Engineering Council.

He has been invited as a guest editor of “Atmosphere” journal. He has an impressive profile of research by publishing in top ranking journals of Water Resources discipline (majority are in Q1) with having best paper awards and editor’s choice award in journal and conference as well. He is an approved supervisor for PhD Civil Engineering programs at Victoria University. Not only the research activities, but he has also been involved in multiple tasks which has high social impacts. He has written a news article in World’s famous News agency ‘Reuters’.

He has carried out several professional consultancy services at higher level. Drainage and flood protection design of various residential areas, surface water supply and ground water potentials have been investigated during various consultancy services. China-Pakistan Economic Corridor is the most significant project in Pakistan, he has performed the master revision of the consultancy work for the flood protection and cross drainage works of the Multan-Sukkar Motorway project. Having the most suitable expertise, the task of Vetting Consultant for ‘Master plans for the water, wastewater & storm water drainage of Lahore district for Water and Sanitation Agency Lahore (WASA) and Lahore Development Authority (LDA)’ is also carried out by him. many projects have been performed with City West Water (Now Greater Western Water).

 

Qualifications

  • PhD TU Delft, the Netherlands

Key publications

Year Citation
2023 Ahsan, A., Das, S. K., Khan, M. HRB., Ng, A. WM., Al-Ansari, N., Ahmed, S., Imteaz, M., Tariq, M. AUR., & Shafiquzzaman, M. (230401). Modeling the impacts of best management practices (BMPs) on pollution reduction in the Yarra River catchment, Australia. Applied Water Science, 13(4),

doi: 10.1007/s13201-022-01812-2

2023 Nadeem, A. A., Zha, Y., Shi, L., Ali, S., Wang, X., Zafar, Z., Afzal, Z., & Tariq, M. AUR. (230201). Spatial Downscaling and Gap-Filling of SMAP Soil Moisture to High Resolution Using MODIS Surface Variables and Machine Learning Approaches over ShanDian River Basin, China. Remote Sensing, 15(3),

doi: 10.3390/rs15030812

2023 Nguyen, C. N., Tariq, M. AUR., Browne, D., & Muttil, N. (230201). Performance Evaluation of Large-Scale Green Roofs Based on Qualitative and Quantitative Runoff Modeling Using MUSICX. Water (Switzerland), 15(3),

doi: 10.3390/w15030549

2023 Farooq, R., Azimi, A. H., Tariq, M. AUR., & Ahmed, A. (230201). Effects of hooked-collar on the local scour around a lenticular bridge pier. International Journal of Sediment Research, 38(1), (1-11).

doi: 10.1016/j.ijsrc.2022.07.002

2023 Ahmed, S., Khan, M. T., Abbasi, A., Haq, I. U., Hina, A., Mohiuddin, M., Tariq, M. AUR., Afzal, M. Z., Zaman, Q. U., & Ng, A. WM. (230112). Characterizing stomatal attributes and photosynthetic induction in relation to biochemical changes in Coriandrum sativum L. by foliar-applied zinc oxide nanoparticles under drought conditions. Frontiers in Plant Science, 13

doi: 10.3389/fpls.2022.1079283

2023 Semab, B., Iqbal, K. MJ., Amir, S., & Tariq, M. AUR. (230104). Development of greenhouse gas emissions baseline and identification of carbon offset cost for maritime vessels of a developing country. Frontiers in Environmental Science, 10

doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2022.1076585

2023 Bibi, S., Irshad, M., Ullah, F., Mahmood, Q., Shahzad, M., Tariq, M. AUR., Hussain, Z., Mohiuddin, M., An, P., & Ng, A. WM. (230104). Phosphorus extractability in relation to soil properties in different fields of fruit orchards under similar ecological conditions of Pakistan. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 10

doi: 10.3389/fevo.2022.1077270

2023 Shah, A. A., Ullah, A., Khan, N. A., Khan, A., Tariq, M. AUR., & Xu, C. (230101). Community social barriers to non-technical aspects of flood early warning systems and NGO-led interventions: The case of Pakistan. Frontiers in Earth Science, 11

doi: 10.3389/feart.2023.1068721

2023 Iqbal, K. MJ., Khan, M. I., Mikhaylov, A., Shah, A. A., Yadykin, V., Leal, Filho., Tariq, M. AUR., & Ullah, W. (230101). Modeling principles, criteria and indicators to assess water sector governance for climate compatibility and sustainability. Frontiers in Environmental Science, 11

doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2023.989930

2023 Shah, A. A., Ullah, A., Khan, N. A., Shah, M. H., Ahmed, R., Hassan, S. T., Tariq, M. AUR., & Xu, C. (230101). Identifying obstacles encountered at different stages of the disaster management cycle (DMC) and its implications for rural flooding in Pakistan. Frontiers in Environmental Science, 11

doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2023.1088126

Research funding for the past 5 years

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Supervision of research students at VU

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Currently supervised research students at VU

No. of students Study level Role
3 PhD Associate supervisor

Currently supervised research students at VU

Students & level Role
PhD (3) Associate supervisor

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