Contact Information
M/C 103
Research Areas
Biography
Dr. Md Safat Sikder joined the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) as a Postdoctoral Researcher Associate in November 2023. He previously held postdoctoral positions at Kansas State University (K-State) and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). Dr. Sikder received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Washington, Seattle. He has experience working in quasi-governmental research institutes in Bangladesh.
Research Interests
The application of remote sensing, GIS, and numerical modeling in surface water hydrology is the main research area of Dr. Sikder. Currently, he is engaged in a project funded by NASA that aims to harmonize the SWOT a-priori lake and river databases. SWOT, a recently launched satellite mission, will provide global data on river discharge and lake water storage changes. The harmonized SWOT lake-river database is needed to better understand the global water cycle through the synergistic use of these two surface water fluxes.
Education
- Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, USA (2018)
- M.S. in Civil Engineering, Tennessee Technological University, USA (2013)
- B.Sc. in Water Resources Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh (2009)
Awards and Honors
- ASCE EWRI 2021 Best Case Study Award (2021)
- NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship (2016)
- Ivanhoe Graduate Fellowship (2012)
- Scholarship of Bangladesh Technical Education Board (2004-2008)
links
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=pwJgo6MAAAAJ&hl=en
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Md-Safat-Sikder
selected publications
Sikder, M. S., J. Wang, G. H. Allen, Y. Sheng, D. Yamazaki, C. Song, M. Ding, J.-F. Crétaux, and T. M. Pavelsky (2023). Lake-TopoCat: a global lake drainage topology and catchment database. Earth System Science Data, vol. 15, pp.3483–3511, doi:10.5194/essd-15-3483-2023.
Riggs, R. M., G. H. Allen, C. B. Brinkerhoff, M. S. Sikder, and J. Wang (2023). Turning lakes into river gauges using the LakeFlow algorithm. Geophysical Research Letters, vol.50, no.10, e2023GL103924, doi:10.1029/2023GL103924.
Wang, J., B. A. Walter, F. Yao, C. Song, M. Ding, A. S. Maroof, A. Xin, J. Zhu, C. Fan, J. M. McAlister, S. Sikder, Y. Sheng, G. H. Allen, J. F. Crétaux, and Y. Wada (2022). GeoDAR: Georeferenced global dam and reservoir dataset for bridging attributes and geolocations. Earth System Science Data, vol.14, no.4, pp.1869–1899, doi:10.5194/essd-14-1869-2022.
Sikder, M. S., M. Bonnema, C. M. Emery, C. H. David, P. Lin, M. Pan, S. Biancamaria, M. M. Gierach (2021). A Synthetic Data Set Inspired by Satellite Altimetry and Impacts of Sampling on Global Spaceborne Discharge Characterization. Water Resources Research, vol.57, no.2, pp.2020WR029035(1-12), doi:10.1029/2020WR029035.
Sikder, M. S., S. Ahmad, F. Hossain, A. Gebregiorgis, and H. Lee (2019). Case Study: Rapid Urban Inundation Forecasting Technique Based on Quantitative Precipitation Forecast for Houston and the Harris County Flood Control District. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, vol.24, no.8, pp.05019017(1-13), doi:10.1061/(ASCE)HE.1943-5584.0001807.