Faculty – National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST)

Faculty Sajjad Haider

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

Acceleration of flow modeling using a freeware 2D GPU-shallow water equations code October 03, 2022 Prince Mahmood, Sajjad Haider, Hamza Farooq Gabriel, Muhammad Shahid, Zain Syed, 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 Ammara Mubeen, Hamza Farooq Gabriel, Sajjad Haider, Mohsin Siddique, 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 Ammara Nusrat, Hamza Farooq Gabriel, Umm e Habiba, Habib Ur Rehman, Sajjad Haider, Shakil Ahmad, Muhammad Shahid, Saad Ahmed Jamal, Jahangir Ali, Atmosphere - Volume 13(2), Article Number 190

Hydraulic performance of constructed wetland at NUST H-12 campus December 01, 2021 Laraib Pervaiz Akhter, Hamza Farooq Gabriel, Sajjad Haider, Shatirah Akib, 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 Muhammad Shahid, Khalil Ur Rahman , Sajjad Haider , Hamza Farooq Gabriel, Abdul Jabbar Khan, Quoc Bao Pham, Dr. Chaitanya Pande, Nguyen Thi Thuy Linh, Duong Tran Anh, 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 Anwar Hussain, Khalil Ur Rahman, Muhammad Shahid , Sajjad Haider , Quoc Bao Pham, Nguyen Thi Thuy Linh, Saad Shauket Sammen, Environment, Development and Sustainability - Pages 1-24

Assessment of Soft Computing Techniques for the Prediction of Suspended Sediment Load in Rivers September 07, 2021 Muhammad Adnan Khan, Muhammad Adnan Khan, Jurgen Stamm, Jurgen Stamm, Sajjad Haider, 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 Muhammad Shahid, Khalil Ur Rahman , Sajjad Haider , Hamza Farooq Gabriel , Abdul Jabbar Khan , Quoc Bao Pham, Babak Mohammadid , Nguyen Thi Thuy Linh, Duong Tran Anh, Hydrological Sciences Journal - Pages 1-21

Flood Hazard Assessment for the Tori Levee Breach of the Indus River Basin, Pakistan February 25, 2021 Babar Naeem, Muhammad Azmat, Hui Tao, Shakil Ahmad, Muhammad Umar Khattak, Sajjad Haider, Sajjad Ahmad, Zarif Khero, Christopher R. Goodell, WATER - https://www.mdpi.com/journal/water

Fractional Gegenbauer wavelets operational matrix method for solving nonlinear fractional differential equations February 04, 2021 Umer Saeed, Mujeeb ur Rehman, Khurram Javid, Qamar Din, Sajjad Haider, 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 Muhammad Umer, Hamza Farooq Gabriel, Sajjad Haider, Ammara Nusrat, Muhammad Shahid, Muhammad Umer, 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 Ammara Nusrat, Hamza Farooq Gabriel, Sajjad Haider, Shakil Ahmad, Muhammad Shahid, Saad Ahmed Jamal, 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 Muhammad Adnan Khan, Muhammad Adnan Khan, Jurgen Stamm, Jurgen Stamm, Sajjad Haider, Water - Volume 12(10), Article Number 2736

2D numerical modeling of two dam-break flood model studies in an urban locality July 17, 2020 Sajjad Haider, Umer Saeed, Muhammad Shahid, Arabian Journal of Geosciences - Volume 13, Article Number 682

Application of Meta-Models for Accurate Calibration of Hydrological Model Parameters June 18, 2020 Ammara Nusrat, Hamza Farooq Gabriel, Sajjad Haider, Muhammad Shahid, 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 Zulqarnain Shah, Hamza Farooq Gabriel, Sajjad Haider, Turab Jafri, Irrigation and Drainage - Pages 1-14

Flow Division at a Free-Surface, Three-Channel Intersection Using 1D Shallow Water Equations October 01, 2019 Sajjad Haider, Hamza Farooq Gabriel, Ammara Mubeen, 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 Munawwar Iqbal, Abdur Razzaq Ghumman, Sajjad Haider, Hashim Nisar Hashmi, Muhammad Adnan Khan, 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 Muhammad Junaid Siddiqui, Sajjad Haider, Hamza Farooq Gabriel, Aamir Shahzad, 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 Munawwar Iqbal, Abdur Razzaq Ghumman, Hashim Nisar Hashmi, Sajjad Haider , 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 Aamir Shahzad, Hamza Farooq Gabriel, Sajjad Haider, Ammara Mubeen, Muhammad Junaid Siddiqui, Arabian Journal of Geosciences - NULL

Supercritical Flow Simulation at a Right Channel Junction. Comparison between a Uniform and a Sparse Mesh November 07, 2017 Sajjad Haider, Hamza Farooq Gabriel, Shaukat Ali Khan, 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 Arslan Mushtaq, Shaukat Ali Khan, Hamza Farooq Gabriel, Sajjad Haider, 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 Muhammad Shahid, Hamza Farooq Gabriel, Amjad Nabi, Sajjad Haider, Shaukat Ali Khan, Syed Muhammad Ali Shah, Life Science Journal - Volume 11, Special Issue 7, Pages 11-15

Application of Moving Kriging Shape Functions on Plate Problems December 31, 2008 Shazim Ali Memon, Worsak Kanok-Nukulchai, Sajjad Haider, 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 E. mignot, A., Paquier, Sajjad Haider, Journal of Hydrology - Volume 327, Issue 1-2, Pages 186-199

Urban flood modelling using computational fluid dynamics June 11, 2003 Sajjad Haider, A., Paquier, Robert Morel, J.,-E, Champagne, 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 Paquier, A, Tanguy, J.M., Sajjad Haider, 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 -

Junior Engineer WAPDA June 01, 1992 - January 07, 2003