Research interests

PhD Student

107, BGB, Department of Geography

University of Tennessee Knoxville, TN 37996

Phone: +1-865-4550269 Email:yrabby@vols.utk.edu

(Last updated: 8/27/2017)

Concentration: Geographic Information Science and Earth System

M.S. Geography & Environment, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh (2016)

Minors: Geology, Botany and Soil Science

CGPA: 3.79

Honors Thesis title: An Assessment of Microclimatic Variations: A Study in Dhaka City (Advisor: Md. Abdur Rob)

Instructed labs for Geo-visualization and Geographic Information and Meteorology

Funded Internally by the Institute for a Secure and Sustainable Environment

(ISSE) Designed and Produced Social Vulnerability Map for Knoxville

2015–2016 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Environmental Lab, Department of Geography and

Environment, University of Dhaka Instructed Labs for Soil and Water Analysis
2014-2015 GIS and Cartography, Intern, International Union for Conservation of Nature

(IUCN) Produced map for “Rivers beyond Boarder: Tran boundary River Atlas

of India and Bangladesh
2013-2014 Undergraduate Research Assistant, Disaster Research Training and Management

Centre, University of Dhaka, SPSS Analyst Helped in Data Flood Disaster Data

Analysis with the Help of SPSS Software

2012-2013 Undergraduate Research Assistant, Dhaka INNOVATE: A Joined Research

Program of University of Dhaka and Humboldt University Berlin.
PUBLICATIONS

Rob, M.A., Kabir, Md. H. and Rabby, Y.W. (2015). An Assessment of Microclimatic Variations: A Study in Dhaka City, Oriental Geographer, The Bangladesh Geographical Society, Vol. 58, No. 1&2, 2015

Kutub, M.J.R., Falgunee, N., Nawfee, S.M. and Rabby, Y.W. (2016). Ship BreakingIndustries’ Impacts on the Local People and Environment of Coastal Areas of Bangladesh, Inthe Proceedings of Special Conference on Coastal and Marine Environment of Bangladesh, Bangladesh PoribashAndolon and Bangladesh Environmental Network, Dhaka

Imran, A.Z.M., Islam, M.T., Gafur, A. And Rabby, Y.W. (2015). Rain attenuation prediction analysis and contour map design over Bangladesh, In the Proceedings of 18^th International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT), Military Institute of Science and Technology, Dhaka

Rabby, Y.W. and Rob, M.A. (2015). An Assessment of Microclimatic Variations: A Study in Dhaka, 9th International Conference on Urban Climate jointly with 12^thSymposium on the Urban Environment, Toulouse, France

GUEST LECTURES

2017 "Cultural Geography of South Asia," GEOG 1030: Cultural Geography at Walters State

Community College, Sevierville Campus.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
2014 Training Course on Cartography and River Mapping, International Union for

Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Nepal, Kathmandu.

2013 Training Course on SPSS, offered by the department of Statistics, University of Dhaka
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
AAG- American Association of Geographers

SEDAAG-– South-eastern Division of Association of American Geographers

BGS- Bangladesh Geographical Society
AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS

2015 Dean’s Award of the Faculty of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of

Dhaka for achieving CGP more than 3.75 in BS.

2015 AQM Mohiuddin Trust Fund Scholarship from University of Dhaka for

outstanding result in BS.

2015 Seraj-Majeja Trust Fund Scholarship from University of Dhaka for outstanding

result in BS.

2015 Best Paper Award in 18th International Conference on Computer Information

Technology (ICCTT 2015) arranged by Military Institute of Science and Technology

(MIST), Bangladesh for Presentation the Paper on “Rain Attenuation Prediction

Analysis and Contour Map Design over Bangladesh”
RESEARCH AND TRAVEL GRANTS

2017 W.K. McClure Scholarship, Centre for International Education, University of

Tennessee, Knoxville 2017: awarded research fund for landslide studies in Bangladesh.

($4000)

2017 Annual Conference TNGIC Student Assistantship: awarded to attend 2017 TNGIC

Annual Conference, Knoxville, Tennessee ($150)

2017 Travel Grant for attending Annual Meeting of American Association of Geographers:

Boston, 2017 from Graduate School and Department of Geography, University of

Tennessee, Knoxville ($690)

2016 Travel grant for attending Annual Meeting of South Eastern Division of American

Association of Geographers (SEDAAG): Columbia, South Carolina, 2017 from

Department of Geography, University of Tennessee ($250)

2015 National Science and Technology Fellowship: 2015-16 of Ministry of Science and

Technology, Government of Peoples Republic of Bangladesh ($850)

2014 Undergraduate Research Scholarship, Department of Geography and Environment,

University of Dhaka: awarded research fund for Urban Microclimate Study in

Dhaka City ($100)

2017 Collected GPS coordinates and geomorphic data of 412 landslide points in

The hilly areas of Bangladesh

2017 Collected data of previous landslides of Bangladesh from Newspaper and published

documents

2015 MS field work, one week conducting social survey to understand the impact of flash

floods on local people in Ramu, Cox’Bazar

2014 Undergraduate thesis field work, one month collecting temperature and humidity data

from the study area twice a day by using digital hygrometer

2014 Conducted land use survey in Sitakunda Chittagong for Land use Survey course

offered by Department of Geography, University of Dhaka
2014 Conducted Social survey in Mongla, Khulna for USAID to understand the impact of

PSF on local people

2013 Collected sediment core from Kutubdia Island, Bangladesh for Techniques in Physical

Geography Course offered by Department of Geography, University of Dhaka