Mariam Khanam

Ph.D. Candidate

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Mariam Khanam is a PhD candidate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Connecticut expecting to graduate in May 2023. Her dissertation focuses on understanding the non-stationarity in flood risk based on spatiotemporal changes in channel conveyance.

Prior coming to UConn, she completed her MSc in Geography from The University of Alabama and BSc in Water Resources Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology. She joined Hydrometeorology and Hydrologic Remote Sensing group in August 2018. She is currently working as a Research Assistant with NASA’s High Mountain Asia Team (HiMAT) conducting geomorphological analysis of the High Mountain Asia (HMA) region. In the past, she received a fellowship from Eversource Energy Center. She was responsible to evaluate flood vulnerability and risk factors for Eversource substations in Connecticut.

Her focal research interests are-

• Hydrology and land surface processes
• Flood geomorphology
• GIS, RS, and AI applications in hydro-geomorphology
• Floodplain/river-corridor geometry & hydrodynamics
• Hyper Resolution hydrologic/hydraulic modeling
• Flood vulnerability and risk assessment
• Natural and anthropogenic impacts on the future of water

Mariam hopes to pursue a research career in the future focusing on her interests with a goal to serve the community by delivering scientific solutions