PhD Candidate
Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
205 North Mathews Ave.,
Urbana, IL 61801.
CV (Updated March 2025)
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Research Interests:
- Air quality and climate modeling
- Atmospheric chemistry and pollutant impacts
- Extreme air quality events
Employment Background:
- Research Assistant, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), USA (July 2021 – Present)
- Teaching Assistant, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UIUC, USA (August 2023 – December 2023)
- Assistant Professor (currently on study leave), Department of Civil Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Bangladesh (July 2020 – June 2021)
- Lecturer, Department of Civil Engineering, BUET, Bangladesh (May 2017 – June 2020)
Biography
Mashiat Hossain completed her undergraduate and master’s degrees in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET). In 2021, she began her Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), with a research focus on air quality and climate modeling. Her work has analyzed the impacts of marine aerosols on atmospheric chemistry and cloud dynamics, leading to a publication in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics and multiple best presentation awards at national conferences. Her broader research interests include understanding atmospheric composition and how it informs policy decisions, climate dynamics, and extreme events.