George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA

Department of Civil, Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering

Dissertation Title: On the Assimilation of Satellite Altimetry Products into a Coastal Storm Surge Model

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 (e.g., SWOT) 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

Frame, J. M., Araki, R., Bhuiyan, S. A., Bindas, T., Rapp, J., Bolotin, L., Deardorff, E., Liu, Q., Haces-Garcia, F., Liao, M., Frazier, N. and Ogden, F. L. (2025), “Machine Learning for a Heterogeneous Water Modeling Framework”. J Am Water Resour Assoc, 61: e70000. https://doi.org/10.1111/1752-1688.70000

Bhuiyan, S. A., Lima, A., Miesse, T., Henke, M., Ferreira, C., & Maggioni, V. (2025). “Improving coastal water level estimation by merging nadir-only satellite altimetry data into a hydrodynamic model”. Under Review, Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Dollan, I.J., Maggioni, V., Araujo, D., Bhuiyan, S. A., Nair, A. V., Nikolopoulos, E. (2024). “Analyzing Multiday Monsoon Precipitation Extremes: The 2022 Case of Southern Pakistan”. Under Review, Journal of Hydrometeorology

Bhuiyan, S. A., Ferreira, C., Lima, A., Miesse, T., & Maggioni, V. (2025). “Improving Global Storm Surge Modeling in Coastal Areas by Leveraging the SWOT Mission”. In preparation, Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

AGU Fall Meeting | Bhuiyan, S. A., Maggioni, V., Ferreira, C., Lima, A., Miesse, T., “Improving Global Storm Surge Modeling in Coastal Areas by Leveraging the SWOT Mission” | December 2024

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

Daniel R. Bannister PhD Retention Fellowship | GMU College of Engineering and Computing | Fall 2024

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

Cohort, HydroLearn January 2025 Hackathon by Cooperative Institute for Research to Operations in Hydrology (CIROH)

• Collaboratively adapt the HydroLearn module – “Runoff Generation” to serve the training needs of operational hydrology professionals from NOAA

• Revise the module as needed, based on feedback from peers, students, and the HydroLearn team

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)