Mehedi Ahmed Ansary

Founder Director

Mehedi Ahmed Ansary graduated from the Department of Civil Engineering at BUET in 1991 and joined the same department as a lecturer that June. He obtained his PhD in Civil Engineering from the University of Tokyo in 1996, was promoted to Professor at BUET in 2006 and became a selection-grade professor in early 2019. His research interest is urban disaster mitigation, including microzonation maps for the cities of Bangladesh, assessment of ground improvement techniques, assessment of building and lifeline vulnerabilities, characterisation of strong ground motion from free-field and bridge monitoring data, and public awareness through simplified guidelines for earthquake-resistant construction.