Experience

National Research Council Canada / Conseil national de recherches Canada

• Canada
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• • Nov 2018 - Present

  My work at the NRC involves accumulating, generating, and providing information on historical and future climate and natural hazards for effective testing of building envelopes and adapting them to the impacts of climate change. I am also responsible for developing interactive tools that can be used by building practitioners to access climate data, and related impacts. • Providing building experts with building simulation climate files, and reliable information on the magnitude, frequency, and duration of natural hazards such as extreme winds, extreme rainfall, heat spells, urban heat island, flooding, wildfires etc., for current and future projected time-periods.• Served as Project Manager for projects from Codes Canada, and nationally important Climate Resilient Buildings and Core Public Infrastructure (CRBCPI) and Climate Resilient Built Environment (CRBE) projects.• Serving as Weather/Climate data lead for International Energy Agency Buildings and Communities (IEA-EBC) Programme on developing climate resilient cooling in buildings (Annex 80) and International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction (CIB) program on enhancing durability in buildings W80.• Leading NRC’s working group on updating buildings related climate design parameters in the 2025 National Building Code (NBC) and National Energy Code of Canada for Buildings (NECB) for climate change.• Recipient of NRC Construction Research Centre’s 2021 “Research and Technology Breakthrough” and "Best Publication", 2020 “Small Teams Initiative”, 2018 “Value for Canada” and “Rising Star” awards “for being a highly effective leader in the field of climate science for building resilience, and for achieving outcomes that surpassed expectations”. Show less

• • Aug 2017 - Oct 2018



University of Guelph, Ontario Agricultural College

• Canada
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Special Graduate Faculty

  • Jan 2023 - Present

  • Co-supervise graduate student thesis work • Co-supervise graduate student thesis work



Concordia University

• Canada
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Affiliate Assistant Professor

  • Jan 2022 - Present

  • Provide lectures on topics related to climate data and climate adaptation of buildings • Co-supervise graduate student thesis work • Provide lectures on topics related to climate data and climate adaptation of buildings • Co-supervise graduate student thesis work



Frontiers

• Switzerland
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Associate Editor

  • Oct 2018 - Present

  • Editing special issue titled “Past, Present, and Future Impacts of Climate on Infrastructure” (https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/9492/past-present-and-future-impacts-of-climate-on-infrastructure) • Editing special issue titled “Resiliency of Urban Systems to Water-related Disasters” (https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/16090/resiliency-of-urban-systems-to-water-related-disasters) • Editing special issue titled “Past, Present, and Future Impacts of Climate on Infrastructure” (https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/9492/past-present-and-future-impacts-of-climate-on-infrastructure) • Editing special issue titled “Resiliency of Urban Systems to Water-related Disasters” (https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/16090/resiliency-of-urban-systems-to-water-related-disasters)



International Energy Agency (IEA)

• France
• International Affairs
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Lead, Weather Data Taskforce

  • Jun 2020 - Present

  • Established methodology for climate data generation for the evaluation of energy performance and overheating assessment of buildings under current and future climates and provided workshop to Annex 80 members with hands-on session on the steps to be performed • Providing guidance to Annex 80 members in developing climate files for 23 cities located in different parts of the globe including 4 cities from North America, 5 cities from Asia, 4 cities from South America, 8 cities from Europe, and 2 cities from Africa Show less



Western University

• Canada
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Postdoctoral Fellow

  • Jun 2016 - Aug 2017

  As a postdoctoral fellow, i had the opportunity to work on a wide range of projects that dealt with delineation of future flood risk across Canada under climate change, preparation of future land-cover forecasts for Canada, preparation of Intensity-Duration-Frequency curves for ungauged sites, and quantification of Urban Heat Island magnitudes at 20 Canadian cities. As a postdoctoral fellow, i had the opportunity to work on a wide range of projects that dealt with delineation of future flood risk across Canada under climate change, preparation of future land-cover forecasts for Canada, preparation of Intensity-Duration-Frequency curves for ungauged sites, and quantification of Urban Heat Island magnitudes at 20 Canadian cities.



Western University

• Canada
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• • May 2011 - Apr 2016

  • Developed a fast, robust, and efficient method for quantifying climate and land-cover change impact on water resources.• Estimated 21st century climatic and flow related changes for the Grand River catchment. • Developed a fully automated program in R programming language for the assessment of climate change impacts.• Estimated future land-cover for southern Saskatchewan region by associating future land-use transitions with land-cover classes identified in MODIS derived land-cover data. Show less

• • May 2011 - Apr 2016

  Supervised tutorial sessions, prepared and marked assignments for the following courses:• Project Management• Water Resources Management• Introduction to Environmental Engineering• Engineering Statics



Academia Sinica

• Research
• 700 & Above Employee

• Instructor

  • Apr 2015 - Apr 2015

  • Demonstrated the use of R programming language in climate change impact assessment studies. • Provided participants with generic R codes for climate change impact assessments. • Conducted hands-on sessions and presentations to familiarize participants with the codes. • Demonstrated the use of R programming language in climate change impact assessment studies. • Provided participants with generic R codes for climate change impact assessments. • Conducted hands-on sessions and presentations to familiarize participants with the codes.



Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee

• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Assistant

  • Jun 2010 - Dec 2010

  • Assisted in data recording, data analysis and report writing for the design of Gucchupani dam in Haridwar, India. • Developed an Expert System based Water Sustainability Index for management of water resources. • Assisted in data recording, data analysis and report writing for the design of Gucchupani dam in Haridwar, India. • Developed an Expert System based Water Sustainability Index for management of water resources.



University of Hamburg

• Germany
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Intern

  • May 2009 - Aug 2009

  • Prepared hydrologic model input data in ArcGIS towards building a dyke system in Elbe river estuary, Germany. • Performed analysis of results and prepared synthesis report. • Prepared hydrologic model input data in ArcGIS towards building a dyke system in Elbe river estuary, Germany. • Performed analysis of results and prepared synthesis report.