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Shafiqul Islam
Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Professor, Water Diplomacy, The Fletcher School of Law and
Diplomacy
Bernard M. Gordon Senior Faculty Fellow in Engineering
Director, Water Diplomacy Initiative
Education
Sc.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Research
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Profile
Shafiqul ("Shafik") Islam is Professor of Civil and
Environmental Engineering and the first Bernard M. Gordon
Senior Faculty Fellow in Engineering at Tufts University. He
also holds a joint appointment as Professor of Water
Diplomacy at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at
Tufts. Professor Islam’s teaching and research interests are
to understand characterize, measure, and model water issues
ranging from climate to cholera to water diplomacy with a
focus on scale issues and remote sensing. His research group
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integrates "theory and practice" and "think and do" to
create actionable water knowledge.
He maintains a diverse network of national and international
partnerships including MIT, Columbia University, Purdue
University, Penn State University, Princeton, BUET in
Bangladesh, University of Tokyo, ETH in Switzerland, ICDDRB
in Bangladesh, IIT in India, and SaciWATERs to conduct
multi-year and multi-million dollar interdisciplinary
collaborative research for a wide range of problems focusing
on water, health, and climate. His major research sponsors
include the National Science Foundation, National Institute
of Health, and the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration.
Dr. Islam maintains an active national and international
consulting and training practice including: flood
forecasting in India; national water planning in Bangladesh;
water policy planning for ExxonMobil; and advising South
Asian Consortium of Interdisciplinary Water initiatives. He
acted as consultant to the World Bank, United States
Geological Survey, Proctor and Gamble, and several other
governmental and non-governmental organizations. He has
published more than 100 refereed journal and other
publications. His research findings have been featured in
numerous media outlets including the BBC World Service,
Voice of America, Boston Globe, Huffington Post, Nature, and
Yale E360. To learn more about Dr. Islam's academic
interests and research, please visit
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