Summary
A hydro-informatics expert with over 16+ years of experience, including 10+ years post-PhD, specializing in hydrology and water resources management through the integration of digital technologies across water resources management, Agrometeorology, Early Warning, and climate change domains. My expertise encompasses water accounting, complex process-based-fully-distributed hydrological and water modelling in context of flood simulation, data assimilation, and digital technology / Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning applications for managing water resources and agriculture sector, with a strong focus on water-agriculture interactions and climate change impacts, adaptation, and resilience. Proficient in risk assessment, forecasting, and simulations of extreme events based Disaster Risk Modelling such as droughts and floods, as well as water accounting, water budgeting to enhance water resource management and water productivity in a changing climate.
Academic Background
PhD
(Water Resources and Climate Change ) Polytechnic Institute of Turin
February 12, 2012 - February 27, 2015
Honours and Awards
Post Doc scholarship
Swiss Govt grant Post Doc scholarship under "Swiss Govt Excellence Scholarship"
September 01, 2017
HEC PhD Scholarship
HEC grant me fully funded PhD scholarship
December 03, 2012
Publications
Shifting Agroclimatic Regimes: CMIP6 Ensemble Insights Into Phenology-Specific Climate Variability in the Indus Basin
March 17, 2026
Earth Systems and Environment - Pages 20
Remote sensing-based 2D hydrodynamic modeling and assessment of the 2014 flood in the Jhelum river basin
February 09, 2026
Modeling Earth Systems and Environment - Volume:12, Article Number:84, Pages:
A GIS-based technique for estimation of economic losses from riverine flood in the lower Indus basin
January 01, 2026
Natural Hazards - Volume:122, Issue:1, Pages 1-33
Channel morphology of the Indus, and the growing risk of floods related damages in the Indus River basin
June 18, 2025
Natural Hazards - Pages 1-33
High-resolution monthly gridded temperature dataset development and trend analysis across Afghanistan: a spatio-temporal approach
May 05, 2025
Theoretical and Applied Climatology - Volume:156, Issue:5, Article Number 280
Growing Glacial Lake Outburst Flood Risks in Ghizer District: A Karakoram Anomaly Region
March 24, 2025
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing - Volume 18, Pages 7811-7828
Hydro-Climatic variability in the Potohar Plateau of Indus River Basin under CMIP6 climate projections
December 14, 2024
Theoretical and Applied Climatology - Volume 156, Article Number 20
An Application of Hybrid Bagging-Boosting Decision Trees Ensemble Model for Riverine Flood Susceptibility Mapping and Regional Risk Delineation
October 09, 2024
Water Resources Management - Pages 1-31
Local surface warming assessment in response to vegetation shifts over arid lands of Central Asia (2001-2020)
June 15, 2024
Science of The Total Environment - Volume 929 , Article Number 172628
A comparative analysis of feature selection models for spatial analysis of floods using hybrid metaheuristic and machine learning models
May 01, 2024
Environmental Science and Pollution Research - Volume 31, Pages 33495-33514
Analyzing land use land cover (LULC) changes induced by the run-of river project and respondent survey: a case of Ghazi Barotha Hydropower Project on Indus River, Pakistan
March 01, 2024
Environmental Research Communications - Volume 6, Issue 3, Article Number 035002
Evapotranspiration estimation using a satellite-based surface energy balance: a case study of Upper Bari Doab, Pakistan
November 30, 2023
Environmental Earth Sciences - Volume:82, Issue:24, Pages: 14
Development of high resolution daily gridded precipitation and temperature dataset for potohar plateau of indus basin
September 04, 2023
Theoretical and Applied Climatology - Volume 154, pages 1179–1201
Comparative assessment of spatiotemporal variability in cryosphere and hydro-climatic regime of the Hunza, Astore and Shigar Basins (Hindukush-Karakoram–Himalaya Region) in Pakistan
May 03, 2023
Arabian Journal of Geosciences - Volume 16, Article Number 350
Hydrological and ecological impacts of run off river scheme; a case study of Ghazi Barotha hydropower project on Indus River, Pakistan
January 12, 2023
Heliyon - Volume 9, Issue 1, Article Number e12659
Identification of Potential Natural Aquifer Recharge Sites in Islamabad, Pakistan, by Integrating GIS and RS Techniques
November 29, 2022
Remote Sensing - Volume 14(23), Article Number 6051
Estimation of Water Balance for Anticipated Land Use in the Potohar Plateau of the Indus Basin Using SWAT
October 28, 2022
Remote Sensing - Volume 14(21), Article Number 5421
Long-Term Performance Evaluation of the Latest Multi-Source Weighted-Ensemble Precipitation (MSWEP) over the Highlands of Indo-Pak (1981–2009)
September 24, 2022
Remote Sensing - Volume 14(19), Article Number 4773
Agricultural system modeling: current achievements, innovations, and future roadmap
February 12, 2022
Arabian Journal of Geosciences - Volume 15, Article Number: 363
Hydroclimatology of the Chitral River in the Indus Basin under Changing Climate
February 09, 2022
Atmosphere - Volume 13(2), Article Number 295
Impacts of climate change on wheat phenology and yield in Indus Basin, Pakistan
October 10, 2021
Science of the Total Environment - Volume 790, Article Number 148221
Flood Hazard Assessment for the Tori Levee Breach of the Indus River Basin, Pakistan
February 25, 2021
WATER - https://www.mdpi.com/journal/water
Trends of Aerosol Optical Thickness Using VIIRS S-NPP During Fog Episodes in Pakistan and India
February 11, 2021
Atmosphere - Volume 12(2), Article Number 242
Landfill site selection by integrating fuzzy logic, AHP, and WLC method based on multi-criteria decision analysis
January 06, 2021
Environmental Science and Pollution Research - Pages 1-16
Deficit irrigation improves maize yield and water use efficiency in a semi-arid environment
January 01, 2021
Agricultural Water Management - Volume 243, Article Number 106483
Analyzing the Performance and Application of CERES-Wheat and APSIM in the Guanzhong Plain, China
December 25, 2020
Transactions of the ASABE - Volume 63(6), Pages 1879-1893
Climatic and hydrological projections to changing climate under CORDEX-South Asia experiments over the Karakoram-Hindukush-Himalayan water towers
February 10, 2020
Science of the Total Environment - Volume 703, Article Number 135010
Pitfalls in transboundary Indus Water Treaty: a perspective to prevent unattended threats to the global security
November 05, 2019
NPJ Clean Water - Volume 2, Article number: 22
Future climate and cryosphere impacts on the hydrology of a scarcely gauged catchment on the Jhelum river basin, Northern Pakistan
October 15, 2018
Science of The Total Environment - Volume 639, Pages 961-976
Flow duration curve regionalization with enhanced selection of donor basins
June 01, 2018
Journal of Applied Water Engineering and Research - Volume: 6, Issue: 1, Pages: 70-84
Water Pricing and Implementation Strategies for the Sustainability of an Irrigation System: A Case Study within the Command Area of the Rakh Branch Canal
April 19, 2018
Water - Volume 10(4), Article Number 509
Ensembling Downscaling Techniques and Multiple GCMs to Improve Climate Change Predictions in Cryosphere Scarcely-Gauged Catchment
April 09, 2018
Water Resources Management - Volume 32, Pages 3155–3174
Optimizing Irrigation Deficit of Multipurpose Cascade Reservoirs
March 01, 2018
Water Resources Management - NULL
Regional Groundwater Quality Management through Hydrogeological Modeling in LCC, West Faisalabad, Pakistan
October 19, 2017
Journal of Chemistry - Article Number: 2041648
Application of HEC-HMS for the event and continuous simulation in highaltitude
July 01, 2017
European Water - Vol.57, Pages 77-84
Rainfall Extremes: a Novel Modeling Approach for Regionalization
April 01, 2017
Water Resources Management - Volume 31, Issue 6, Pages 1975-1994
Impacts of changing climate and snow cover on the flow regime of Jhelum River, Western Himalayas
March 01, 2017
Regional Environmental Change - Volume 17, Issue 3, Pages 813-825
Model swapping: A comparative performance signature for the prediction of flow duration curves in ungauged basins
October 11, 2016
Journal of Hydrology - Volume 541, Pages 1030-1041
Performance Evaluation of Hose-Reel Sprinkler Irrigation System
October 01, 2016
Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering - Volume: 41, Issue: 10, Pages: 3923-3930
Precipitation variability assessment of northeast China: Songhua River basin
July 19, 2016
Journal of Earth System Science - Volume 125, Issue 5, Pages 957-968
Hydrological modeling to simulate streamflow under changing climate in a scarcely gauged cryosphere catchment
February 01, 2016
Environmental Earth Sciences - Volume: 75, Issue: 3
Estimation of Water Resources Availability and Mini-Hydro Productivity in High-Altitude Scarcely-Gauged Watershed
November 01, 2015
Water Resources Management - Volume: 29, Issue: 14, Pages: 5037-5054
Conferences
Genetic algorithm based optimization of multipurpose cascade reservoirs for sustainable economic growth
June 25, 2019 - June 29, 2019
Muhammad Usman Rashid, Muhammad Azmat, F. Raees,
11th World Congress on Water Resources and Environment (EWRA 2019)
Application of HEC-HMS for the event and continuous simulation in high-altitude scarcely-gauged catchment under changing climate
July 05, 2017 - July 09, 2017
M. Azmat, M.U. Qamar, S. Ahmed, E. Hussain, M. Umair,
10th World Congress of EWRA ‘Panta Rhei’
Application of HEC-HMS for the event and continuous simulation in highaltitude scarcely-gauged catchment under changing climate
July 05, 2017 - July 09, 2017
Muhammad Azmat, M.U. Qamar, Shakil Ahmad, Ejaz Hussain, Muhmmad Umair,
10th World Congress of EWRA