BIOGRAPHY:
Siddiqur joined the CoRE Lab in Fall 2023 as a PhD student in Civil Engineering at UCF. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Disaster Management from Begum Rokeya University Rangpur (Bangladesh) and a master’s degree in Geography from the University of Alabama with a concentration in GIS.
RESEARCH:
His master’s thesis focused on changes and variabilities of extreme precipitation events in the Southeastern United States. Before joining the CoRE Lab, Siddiqur worked as a graduate research assistant in the GIS lab at the University of Alabama. At the CoRE lab, he is involved in a DoE-funded project to develop Weather-Outage modelling for Florida, where he has been statistical models, machine learning, and GIS to explore the impacts of extreme weather and climatic events on power outages and engage in exploratory model development to predict power outages. His research interests include, but are not limited to, extreme precipitation, analyzing and modelling extreme events, and the impacts of hydro-climatological extremes on the environment and society.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Email: MohammadSiddiqur.Rahman@ucf.edu