SAJJAD HAIDER
HOD Department of Water Resources Engg & Mgmt
- NUST Institute of Civil Engineering
- 0519084652
Summary
Associate Professor, Sajjad Haider is a senior academic and an experienced researcher. He has in total, 31 years of experience after obtaining his civil engineering degree with 21 years post PhD experience. After securing his PhD from the INSA, Lyon, France in 2001, he has been serving for the last 19.5 years at the National University of Sciences and Technology, (NUST), Pakistan. Before that he served in Water & Power Development Authority (WAPDA) as Junior Engineer from 1992-2003. In his academic career, he has taught courses related to Fluid Mechanics, Hydraulic Engineering, Sediment Transport, Computational Hydraulics, Pollutant Transport and Hydrology to undergraduate and postgraduate students. He has extensively supervised MS and PhD level research in the discipline of Water Resources Engineering and Management. He has authored and co-authored number of research articles including 20 papers in journals having Impact-factor.
Academic Background
PhD
(Hydraulic Engineering) Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon
August 30, 1998 - August 30, 2001
Honours and Awards
Publications
Development of a hydrodynamic model of the irrigation canal network by using HEC-RAS: a case study of Layyah Canal Division, Pakistan
April 01, 2025
Modeling Earth Systems and Environment - Volume:11, Issue:3, Article Number 195
Simulation of urban flooding using 3D computational fluid dynamics with turbulence model
March 01, 2025
Results in Engineering - Volume 25, Article Number 103609
Comparing the Performance of the New HEC-RAS Model Utilizing Different Modeling Techniques: A Case Study of the Tous Dam Break
October 31, 2024
Open Access Library Journal - Volume 11, Article Number e12217
Application of Bio Sand Filters for improving drinking water quality in flood-affected areas of Pakistan, a case study of Shahdad Kot, Pakistan
June 01, 2024
Case Studies in Chemical and Environmental Engineering - 2666-0164
Sensitivity analysis of a 2D flood inundation model. A case study of Tous Dam
March 25, 2024
Environmental Earth Sciences - Volume 83, Article Number 213
Assessing the utility of hybrid hydrological modeling over complex conditions of the Chitral basin, Pakistan
December 01, 2023
Journal of Water and Climate Change - Volume 14, Issue 12, Pages 4444–4464
Dam Break Flow: A Comparative Model Study Using OpenFOAM and BASEMENT
November 03, 2023
Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering - Pages 1-17
Development of daily bias-corrected ensemble precipitation estimates over the Upper Indus Basin of the Hindukush-Karakoram-Himalaya
October 01, 2023
Journal of Water and Climate Change - Volume 14(10), Pages 3517–3538
Short-long-term streamflow forecasting using a coupled wavelet transform-artificial neural network (WT-ANN) model at the Gilgit River Basin, Pakistan
May 01, 2023
JOURNAL OF HYDROINFORMATICS - Vol:25 (3), Pages:881-894
Acceleration of flow modeling using a freeware 2D GPU-shallow water equations code
October 03, 2022
Arabian Journal of Geosciences - Volume 15, Article Number 1584
Sensitivity analysis and optimization of land use/cover and aquifer parameters for improved calibration of hydrological model
April 01, 2022
Mehran University Research Journal of Engineering and Technology - Volume 41(2), Pages 21-34
Plausible Precipitation Trends over the Large River Basins of Pakistan in Twenty First Century
January 24, 2022
Atmosphere - Volume 13(2), Article Number 190
Hydraulic performance of constructed wetland at NUST H-12 campus
December 01, 2021
Journal of Applied Research in Water and Wastewater - Volume 8, Issue 2, Serial Number 16, Pages 169-173
Quantitative assessment of regional land use and climate change impact on runoff across Gilgit watershed
October 31, 2021
Environmental Earth Sciences - Volume 80, Article Number 743
Investigating feasible sites for multi-purpose small dams in Swat District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan: socioeconomic and environmental considerations
October 11, 2021
Environment, Development and Sustainability - Pages 1-24
Assessment of Soft Computing Techniques for the Prediction of Suspended Sediment Load in Rivers
September 07, 2021
Applied Sciences - Volume 11(18), Article Number 8290
Assessing the potential and hydrological usefulness of the CHIRPS precipitation dataset over a complex topography in Pakistan
September 03, 2021
Hydrological Sciences Journal - Pages 1-21
Flood Hazard Assessment for the Tori Levee Breach of the Indus River Basin, Pakistan
February 25, 2021
WATER - https://www.mdpi.com/journal/water
Fractional Gegenbauer wavelets operational matrix method for solving nonlinear fractional differential equations
February 04, 2021
Mathematical Sciences - Pages 1-15
Application of precipitation products for flood modeling of transboundary river basin: a case study of Jhelum Basin
November 22, 2020
Theoretical and Applied Climatology - Pages 1-16
Application of Machine Learning Techniques to Delineate Homogeneous Climate Zones in River Basins of Pakistan for Hydro-Climatic Change Impact Studies
October 01, 2020
Applied Sciences - Volume 10, Issue 19, Article Number 6878
Simulating the Impact of Climate Change with Different Reservoir Operating Strategies on Sedimentation of the Mangla Reservoir, Northern Pakistan
September 30, 2020
Water - Volume 12(10), Article Number 2736
2D numerical modeling of two dam-break flood model studies in an urban locality
July 17, 2020
Arabian Journal of Geosciences - Volume 13, Article Number 682
Application of Meta-Models for Accurate Calibration of Hydrological Model Parameters
June 18, 2020
Journal of Critical Reviews - Volume 7, Issue 16, Pages 767-779
Analysis of seepage loss from concrete lined irrigation canals in Punjab, Pakistan
May 26, 2020
Irrigation and Drainage - Pages 1-14
Flow Division at a Free-Surface, Three-Channel Intersection Using 1D Shallow Water Equations
October 01, 2019
Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering - Volume 44, Issue 10, Pages 8489-8501
Application of Godunov Type 2D Model for Simulating Sediment Flushing in a Reservoir
May 05, 2019
Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering - Volume 44, Issue 5, Pages 4289-4307
Rainfall-runoff, flood inundation and sensitivity analysis of the 2014 Pakistan flood in the Jhelum and Chenab river basin
October 26, 2018
Hydrological Sciences Journal - Volume 63, Issue 13-14, Pages 1976-1997
Planning of Hydraulic Flushing Schedule for Prolonging the Life of a Hydropower Plant
October 08, 2018
Iranian Journal of Science and Technology-Transactions of Civil Engineering - not available
Development of a flood forecasting system using IFAS: a case study of scarcely gauged Jhelum and Chenab river basins
July 01, 2018
Arabian Journal of Geosciences - NULL
Supercritical Flow Simulation at a Right Channel Junction. Comparison between a Uniform and a Sparse Mesh
November 07, 2017
KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering, - Volume 21, Issue 7, Pages 2984-2990
Seismic Vulnerability Assessment of Deficient RC Structures with Bar Pullout and Joint Shear Degradation
January 02, 2015
Advances in Civil Engineering - Article Number: 537405
Evaluation of Development and Land Use Change Effects on Rainfall-Runoff and Runoff-Sediment Relations of Catchment Area of Simly Lake Pakistan
July 25, 2014
Life Science Journal - Volume 11, Issue 7, Pages 11-15
Application of Moving Kriging Shape Functions on Plate Problems
December 31, 2008
NUST Journal of Engineering Sciences - Volume 1, No. 1, Pages 45-55
Modeling floods in a dense urban area using 2D shallow water equations
July 30, 2006
Journal of Hydrology - Volume 327, Issue 1-2, Pages 186-199
Two-Dimensional Urban Flood Modeling
January 01, 2006
Science, Technology and Development - Volume 25, No.2, Pages 19-25
Urban flood modelling using computational fluid dynamics
June 11, 2003
Proceedings of Institution of Civil Engineers-Water and Maritime engineering - Volume 156, Issue 2, Pages 129-135
Estimation of the flood levels for a flash flood in urban area: comparison of two hydrodynamic models on the 1988 Nime's flood
June 11, 2003
Revue Sciences de l'eau - Volume16, Issue1, Pages 79–102
Conferences
A meta-model assisted framework of optimization of the Hydrological model parameters for accurate calibration
May 04, 2020 - May 08, 2020
Ammara Nusrat, Hamza Farooq Gabriel, Sajjad Haider, Muhammad Shahid, Ammara Nusrat, Hamza Farooq Gabriel, Sajjad Haider, Muhammad Shahid, Ammara Nusrat, Hamza Farooq Gabriel, Sajjad Haider, Muhammad Shahid,
22nd EGU General Assembly 2020
2D Numerical Simulation of River Hydrodynamics-Application to Indus River Reach Downstream Ghazi Barrage
August 26, 2007 - August 27, 2007
Dr. Sajjad Haider, Tayyab Akram, Dr. Shakil Ahmad,
The Second International Conference on Environmentally Sustainable Development "ESDev-2007"
Junior Engineer
WAPDA
June 01, 1992 - January 07, 2003