Dr. Ahsan received a PhD in Civil Engineering from the University of Fukui, Japan and he has more than 11 years of research, teaching and industrial experiences. He is involved with a number of collaborative research projects in different countries, e.g. University of Fukui, Japan; Western Sydney University, Australia; University Putra Malaysia, Malaysia; Khulna University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh & Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. He has published extensively in Water and Environmental Engineering including 8 books, 11 book chapters and over 124 journal articles (mostly ISI/Scopus).