Professional Summary
Dr. Muhammad Usman completed his MS and PhD at Hokkaido University (Japan) with the Japanese Government's MEXT Scholarship. He also has two years of postdoc research experience at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia. He won the Outstanding Student Presentation Award (OSPA) at the Japan Geoscience Union-American Geophysical Union (JpGU-AUG) joint meeting of 2017 in Makuhari Messe, Chiba, Japan. He won first prize in the “Student Paper Contest” at the Annual Technical Conference (ATC) 2011, which was organized by the Pakistan Association of Petroleum Geoscientists (PAPG). He studies the water cycle, ocean dynamics, geodetic hazards, geomorphology, climate change, and different physical parameters of the environment using remote sensing data and field surveys. He mainly uses Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) Satellite, Satellite Altimetry, and various climatic data; Python, MATLAB, and Generic Mapping Tool (GMT) products.