Arslaan Khalid
Research Scientist - Flood Risk at The Water Institute
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
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Top SchoolArslaan Khalid is a research scientist and coastal data scientist with nine years of experience building flood risk and real-time flood forecasting systems for estuaries and coastlines. He blends coastal and riverine engineering expertise—ADCIRC, Delft3D, HEC-RAS and FEMA mapping—with advanced data science skills in machine learning, computer vision, and big-data automation to extract flood-relevant features from satellite and street-level imagery. His work spans academic research and industry delivery, from developing high-resolution unstructured meshes and cloud-parallel hydrodynamic models to deploying citizen-science-enabled flood monitors for the Chesapeake Bay. Notably, he has applied semantic segmentation to infer building first-floor elevations and density for urban flood risk assessments, turning imagery into actionable hazard metrics. Based in the Washington DC–Baltimore area and currently at The Water Institute, he repeatedly combines novel modeling approaches with production automation to accelerate flood risk decision-making.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Civil Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Civil Engineering at National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST)Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Civil Engineering - Water Reources Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Civil Engineering - Water Reources Engineering at George Mason University
Github Skills (29)
forecast10
ocean8
post-processing8
ocean-modelling6
python6
two-dimensional5
geophysics5
azerothcore5
automation5
octave5
solve5
wave5
water5
matlab5
ansible-collections5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ArslaanK/Python_Scripts
Apr 2018 - Aug 2024
Contributions:67 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 4 months
MasonFloodHazardsResearchLab/MasonFloodHazardsResearchLab.github.io
Mar 2017 - Jan 2019
Contributions:2 PRs, 5798 pushes in 1 year 10 months
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