Graduate Theses

Below is a list of graduate theses produced by students working at WIT

PhD

  • Khansa Tariq - PhD in Electrical Engineering: "Dynamic Reservoir Control to Analyze Flood-Induced Community Behavior towards Resettlement and Building Resilience". 2025 (Expected)
  • Hamza Rafique - PhD in Electrical Engineering: "Farm Level Water Scheduling by Developing High Resolution Soil Moisture Estimates Using Remote Sensing and Deep Learning", 2026 (Expected) 
  • Wasim Hassan - PhD in Electrical Engineering: "A Framework for Socio-hydrological Assessment of Water Allocation Schemes", 2023 
  • Syed Muhammad Abbas - PhD in Electrical Engineering: "An Autonomous Water Canal Structural Profiling System using an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle", 2022
  • Ansir Ilyas - PhD in Electrical Engineering: "Integrating Local Behavioural Feedbacks to Identify Sustainable Pathways for Natural Resource Management", 2022
  • Talha Manzoor - PhD in Electrical Engineering: "Towards a Cybernetic Foundation for Natural Resource Governance", 2017

MS

  • Muhammad Hassam Arshad - MS in Electrical Engineering: "A Precipitation Estimation System for Runoff Prediction in the Namal Valley", 2021
  • Muhammad Asad - MS in Electrical Engineering: "Reconstruction of noisy Lagrangian sensor trajectories using RF path-loss measurements", 2021
  • Muhammad Mateen Shahid - MS in Electrical Engineering: "Platform development, bank detection and trajectory estimation for an unmanned surface vehicle deployed in open water channel", 2021
  • Tallat Mahmood - MS in Electrical Engineering: "Autonomous Navigation of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) in a simulated canal environment using deep reinforcement learning", 2021 [featured news]
  • Muhammad Farooq - MS in Electrical Engineering: "Climate informatics for the water energy food nexus: A system dynamics perspective on dairy farm operations", 2021
  • Muhammad Ashar Ayaz - MS in Electrical Engineering: "MPC based soil moisture regulation of canal connected fields", 2020
  • Zafar Ali - MS in Electrical Engineering: "Robotic auto sampler for water quality studies", 2019
  • Musab Umer - MS in Electrical Engineering: "3D Mapping of Waterways using a Robotic Floating Platform", 2019
  • Syed Izzat Ullah - MS in Electrical Engineering: "Vision based autonomous mapping and obstacle avoidance for a micro aerial vehicle (MAV) navigating canal", 2019
  • Affan - MS in Electrical Engineering: "Data assimilation of mobile sensors in hydrological models", 2019 [featured news]
  • Hashim Ali - MS in Electrical Engineering: "Formal methods based driver behavior verification and analysis", 2019
  • Joudat Bint Khalil - MS in Electrical Engineering: "Assessing the spatio-temporal distribution of ozone over an agriculture field and potential impacts on crop yield", 2019 [featured news]
  • Muhammad Zeeshan Sardar - MS in Electrical Engineering: "Integrated use of fixed and mobile air quality monitors to access the magnitude of spatial and temporal distribution of air pollution", 2019
  • Hammad Iftikhar - MS in Electrical Engineering: "Crop canopy temperature VS soil water deficit: estimating crop water stress", 2019
  • Zahoor Ahmad - MS in Electrical Engineering: "Spatially distributed river water quality monitoring using lagrangian sensors", 2019
  • Wasim Hassan - MS in Electrical Engineering: "A Multi-Agent Model for Conjunctive Water Use and Surface Water Markets", 2018
  • Muhammad Abdullah - MS in Electrical Engineering: "Simplified Transfer Function Models of Flow in Irrigation Canals", 2017
  • Saad Hassan - MS in Electrical Engineering: "Monocular Vision Based Autonomous Canal Following", 2016
  • Ali Ahmed - MS in Electrical Engineering: "Range Sensing Based Autonomous Canal Following", 2016
  • Ansir Ilyas - MS in Electrical Engineering: "Application of Reinforcement Learning and Adaptive Dynamic Programming for Control Design", 2016

Pre-Inauguration

  • Qazi Hamza Jan - MS in Electrical Engineering: "Visual Inertial Odometry for Navigation", 2015 
  • Usman Iftikhar - MS in Electrical Engineering: "Distributed Algorithms for self assembly robot using graph spectra", 2015
  • Ammad Rehmat - MS in Electrical Engineering: "Comparative Frameworks for Risk mitigation in Irrigation Networks", 2014
  • Bilal Tallat - MS in Electrical Engineering: "Embeded System Optimization of a Visually Servoed Robotic Arm", 2014
  • Faiz Alam - MS in Computer Engineering: "WiFi Signal Strength Based Robot Localization and Mapping", 2013
  • Talha Manzoor - MS in Computer Engineering: "Observability and disparity in monocular SLAM: A study", 2013
  • Syed Muhammad Abbas - MS in Computer Science: "Outdoor RGBD SLAM performance in slow mine detection", 2013
  • Maryam Javed - MS in Electrical Engineering: "Data Assimilation of Contamination Surveys in Hydrodynamic Models", 2013
  • Zaeem Hussain - MS in Computer Science: "Sparse data assimilation for groundwater models", 2012
  • Hasan Arshad Nasir - MS in Computer Engineering: "Feedback Control of Open Channel Flows: A CPS approach towards managing large Irrigation Networks", 2011
  • Mhequb Hayat - MS in Computer Engineering: "Spectral Properties of expansive configuration spaces", 2011