The Collaborators

Dr. Ezri Hayat

University of Huddersfield, UK

Dr. Ezri Hayat (PhD) works as a Senior Lecturer in Built Environment. He is currently leading the BSc (Hons) Construction Project Management programme 

Throughout his academic career, Dr. Hayat has been involved in development of a number research grant proposal submitted to Erasmus Plus, NERC and Horizon2020 schemes, including ARCADIAN and CABARET.

Before joining the academia, Dr Hayat spent his professional career time working for a various United Nation agencies (UNHAS - WPF, UNHABITAT), Donor Organisations (GTZ/GIZ) and Consultant company (GHD pty ltd) in the reconstruction of disaster-affected areas.

Dr Hayat's research foci have been in the area of Disaster Risk Reduction and the reconstruction of infrastructure facilities in post-disaster context, as well as capacity building and governance policy. Currently, Dr Hayat is developing research ideas that looks into the application of digital technologies to help with Disaster Risk Reduction initiatives and enhance societal resilience to disaster and climate change. He is looking forward to collaborate with both academia and industry professionals for interdisciplinary approach researches in these disciplines and subject areas. 

Assoc. Prof. M. Abdur Razzaque

Teesside University, UK

Dr Mohammad A. Razzaque (Raz) is an Associate Professor (Research & Innovation) in the School of Computing, Engineering and Digital Technologies, Teesside University. Before joining Teesside University, he worked as a Senior Research Fellow at the Trinity College Dublin (2014-2017) and Senior Lecturer at the Faculty Computing, University Technology Malaysia (2011-2014).

He is an expert in end-to-end (sensors-to-cloud) IoT solutions and cybersecurity, and his research and development are centred on IoT and cybersecurity. Since 2014, he is also working on machine learning techniques, including deep learning techniques for IoT applications and cybersecurity. He has successfully published over 70 peer-reviewed research works, including 12 Q1 journal papers and a book in these areas. He is active in funding applications and was involved in different funding applications and secured £300K (approximately) worth funding as the P.I. or a Co-I. Currently, he is working on hardware security in IoT, secure Machine Learning, Federated Learning, and Blockchain for Cybersecurity. Besides, he is supervising/co-supervising nine PhD students at Teesside University. 

He holds a PhD in distributed systems (i.e., Wireless Sensor Networks, Mobile Adhoc Networks) from the School of Computer Science and Informatics, U.C.D., Dublin (2008). He also holds an M.Sc. & B.Sc. (Hons) in Electronics and Communication Engineering, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Dr. Alfi Rahman

Universitas Syiah Kuala,  Indonesia

Alfi Rahman currently works as an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences of Universitas Syiah Kuala (USK), a researcher at the Tsunami and Disaster Mitigation Research Center (TDMRC) and Director of the Research Center for Social and Cultural Studies (PRISB)  of USK, Banda Aceh, Indonesia. He was awarded a Doctoral degree from Tohoku University, Japan (2018) in Human Security and Society Program, Graduate School of International Cultural Studies. His Master's degree from USK, Banda Aceh, Indonesia (2014) in Disaster Science, and his Bachelor's in Communication. His research topics are Knowledge Management for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), Indigenous Knowledge for DRR, Disaster Policy, Disaster Education, and Disaster Risk Communication.

He is Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Disaster Management (http://jurnal.unsyiah.ac.id/IJDM). In 2017, He was invited as a participant and presenter at the Intensive Summer Course on "Advancing Disaster Risk Reduction to Enhance Sustainable Development in A Changing World". The workshop was organized by The Institute of Environment and Human Security, United Nations University (UNU-EHS), Bonn, Germany. In the same year (2017), he was awarded by the committee of the Graduate Program in Human Security of Tohoku University as the best researcher in the Human Security International Workshop and Seminar in Sendai, Japan

Dr. Yunita Idris

Universitas Syiah Kuala,  Indonesia

Dr. Yunita Idris is currently an academic staff in the Department of Civil Engineering, Engineering Faculty of Syiah Kuala University.  She was graduated from Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Syiah Kuala University in 2003. She pusued her master degree in structural engineering at Melbourne School of Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Australia in 2008. She holds a PhD in Structural Engineering from The University of Adelaide for her research on "FRP - Concrete-Steel Composite Structural members". 

Dr. Yunita Idris has joined Tsunami and Disaster Mitigation Research Center (TDMRC) Syiah Kuala University as a researcher since 2016. She currently serve as the coordinator of Technology Application Research Cluster at TDMRC. She currently involve in some projjects including "INSPIRE: Indonesia School Program to Improve Resilience" Project collaboration between University College London, United Kingdom and TDMRC - UNSYIAH funded by Newton Fund. She took part as school infrastructure assessment in the project. She was also take a part in the rapid assessment team for earthquake damage post Pidie Jaya earthquake in 2016 and Lombok earthquake in 2018. 

Her research interest includes : Vulnerability assessment of buildings in high seismic area, Post Disaster Assessment of Building structures, Seismic resistant structural material development, Recycled Construction Material, and Composite FRP.

Dr. Nuwan Dias

University of Manchester, UK

Dr Nuwan Dias is  Lecturer in Disaster Management at the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute, University of Manchester. 

Currently Dr Nuwan teaches both undergraduate and postgraduate students in Disaster management and humanitarian response. 

Dr Nuwan was the principal investigator of the project 'An exploratory study into nature-inspired solutions for disaster risk reduction in coastal regions. The project seeks to better understand the state of the art and potential application of NIS (Biomimicry) to reduce the impact of coastal hazards. The project outcomes identified key research gaps in NIS for DRR, and provide a basis for the development of future research. This project had industry and academic partners from Sri Lanka, Australia, the UK and New Zealand. 

Dr Nuwan's research interests are built environment at disaster resilience, climate change adaption and built environment, Tsunami early warning, sustainable urban planning and design. I have produced a range of research outputs covering my research interest areas.