Dr. Ashraful Islam is a hydraulic engineer with more than 16 years of experience in numerical and physical modeling of water flow and sediment transport processes. His primary area of expertise is the development and applications of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) models in support of i) oil and gas industry, ii) hydropower facilities, iii) water supply system, iv) water treatment plants, etc. He is an expert in hydraulic transient analysis of closed conduit systems. He specializes in sediment transport modeling, thermal discharge studies, storm water management, and mixing zone studies for industrial and municipal discharges. At his current job as a principal engineer at RIE Consultants, his job responsibilities include proposal development, project management, technical review, cost estimating, and implementation of numerical and physical modeling techniques for solving complex hydraulic, sediment transport or coastal engineering problems.